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80 acres sounds big to people who don't live in the country, but is fairly small potatoes when it come to agricultural land. Such parcels will get consolidated
by codingdave 8mo ago
80 acres sounds big to people who don't live in the country, but is fairly small potatoes when it come to agricultural land. Such parcels will get consolidated into nearby large operations/corporations. Sometimes that is a corporate farmer, sometimes a local family or two just hoovers up land as it becomes available. But there is no guessing needed - land ownership will consolidate.
- pinkmuffinere 8mo agoYa for real, 80 acres? My uncle farms 10,000+ acres...
- 0_____0 8mo ago80/10,000 acres of what? Is your uncle in corn/soybeans? 80 acres is a Vermont kind of operation. Eating crops. They're around.
- codingdave 8mo agoAround me, cranberries are another crop where large farms will own thousands of acres. And there are some large dairies that grow the food for their herds as well as give them grazing space. There are no lack of commodity farmers in my state, but you are right that I appreciate those who grow food more.
- AngryData 8mo agoYeah, even 30 years ago I had farmers around me closing down because their about 400 acres wasn't enough to make any useful amount of money on. Under 100 isnt enough for any sort of row crops to even pay for tractor and impliment maintence. You would need super specialize production of lower volume products. Flowers, maybe rarer berries, otherwise you just have a large garden that lets you sell some corn and pumpkins on a road stand to offset some fertilizer costs.
- JoeAltmaier 8mo agoTwenty grandchildren are splitting whatever the grandparents had left. But that didn't occur to lots of people, who are unfamiliar with such events as land-inheritance.
- pfdietz 8mo agoOn the other hand, 80 acres of PV could gross more than $2M/year.