Probably. (source, I grew up a farmer, have a small farm, house in the city, and we have a double tech income) Farming is hard. It's generally about doing mo

Probably. (source, I grew up a farmer, have a small farm, house in the city, and we have a double tech income) Farming is hard. It's generally about doing more with less which in the small scale just means grinding it out. There are two ways to make farming profitable, write a book (or do the homesteader youtube/pateron thing) or scale. It's really hard to scale on a homestead. You spend all day switching tasks and you can't build machines to mechanize your chores. On our farm we only grow a couple things so we cans work to scale. We have multiple acres of a single crop that produces well for us and has a high sale price. That allows us to build things like bedforming machines, harvesters, processing and storage machines. But we're not homesteaders. Subsistence farming, even with a modern machine like a tractor is still back breaking thankless work, just like it was 100 years ago. And you're always on, protecting crops, caring for animals, doing the work and it's really inefficient. You have to really love the work if that's what you want to do. Because as a job, it's one of the worst you could pick. Big boy farmers have scale which allows them to do things like buy crop and livestock insurance, million dollar machines, access the funds from the farm bill through various programs. And it's still brutal work but if done right it can also be pretty lucrative. There's a reason that farming has mostly been ceded to large corporations, it's hard to do and it's hard to make money without enormous economies of scale. It's easy to dig on giant corporate farms that are cutting corners to make a buck but somewhere along the line, every acre they have is a farm that went bust or just decided they'd be better off with the one time price for the land. And now you know why. On the other hand, few things will beat a fresh steak on the day of butcher and a hand grown salad. But you can have that buy living in the city, growing a garden and buying a 1/4 of a cow when it goes to market. So I don't know if this was helpful, but these are kinda generally accepted truths in the farming community that a lot of people don't really understand because so few people are farmers now. I wish you the best and hope you are able to make the right decision as decide what's next for you.