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$$$$$ Get into farming $$$$$ (cdn.videy.co) Gardening
posted 1 year ago by WeimerSolutions on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +59Score on mirror )
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ValuesLiberty on scored.co
1 year ago 19 points (+0 / -0 / +19Score on mirror )
Sold a bunch of zucchini bread on Saturday.


Sold two dozen eggs this morning.


All without doing much, self-service farm stand does most of the work.


Gave away duck eggs at Church on Sunday. Pastor handed out watermelons he got from the Amish.


Moved my goats onto the driveway instead of mowing the grass.


They all look so fat and happy.


Setup an automatic gutter-rain catch last week so I don't even need to give the animals water anymore.


Neighbor gave me 120 bales of pasture grass for free, just had to help pick a bunch of hay from the field with my 1996 Dodge cummins truck (500k miles on the odometer) and his trailer.


Just sent the kids outside to dump the compost for the chickens and ducks.


Life is grand when you set yourself up with abundance.


Got Tomatoes coming out of my arse, they finally started turning red.





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el_hoovy on scored.co
1 year ago 12 points (+0 / -0 / +12Score on mirror ) 2 children
if only this worked everywhere. the numbers are so bad in Romania the only way you could hope to turn a profit is by doing what the govt tells you to a T to get the subsidy money. otherwise everything is at a loss because for some inexplicable reason people would rather eat imported dutch plastic or turkish rot at 5x the price. you *regularly* hear of tons of produce being left to rot because it couldn't sell even at dogwater prices, meanwhile the supermarkets are full of the rejects other countries sent us at premium prices.
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ValuesLiberty on scored.co
1 year ago 5 points (+0 / -0 / +5Score on mirror )
No kikes, no chinks, no big corps in West Virginia.
PraiseBeToScience on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 1 child
That's land in general.

A good start would be prohibiting ownership of land by corporations depending on its use by making non-small-businesses owe so much in taxes that they couldn't hope to ever do anything but lose money on it, so they dump the land. Small businesses (which we really need to have even more categorization of because some businesses are oddly huge but qualify as small businesses) get favorable tax rates so farmland ownership is prioritized for a "mom and pop" farm. In general "corporate" use of land should only be held on lease from the government on ten-year leases.

Residential property is fundamentally only able to be owned by *real individuals* in the name of a real person, with escalating tax burdens the more of it you own. One home on a few acres is yours. Your second home is a luxury and taxed accordingly. Third and up you start feeling the stress.

The important thing is this: a single person owning a home is on a finite "lease" because they eventually will die. Most people sell Mom's house so it churns to a new buyer. Corporations are deathless entities that can exist forever. Why does it make any sense that a piece of land that an immortal legal structure signed for can functionally be forever carved out of anyone ever having a chance to do something with it?
ValuesLiberty on scored.co
1 year ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 2 children
You can still get land for cheap in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia
PraiseBeToScience on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 1 child
Like five years ago I was looking at Appalachian nonarable land in Tennessee for a homestead or cabin and it was relatively cheap. Today the plots I saw are literally 4x in price. Some of them don't even have road access, just an easement through other land, and 30 acres of undeveloped forest and rock has an ask of $400k.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1120-Yellow-Springs-Rd-Cosby-TN-37722/421685554_zpid/

Perfect example. $200k for 6 acres with nothing but apparently the *opportunity* for power. Often these lots come with liabilities attached like old crumbling structures that need to be torn down.
ValuesLiberty on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 2 children
Did I mention Tennessee? Never bothered to look there. Overpriced like you said.

Not the best property but I barely looked, 12 acres, lots of frontage in Hinton, West Virginia. $29k https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/800-Madams-Creek-Rd-Hinton-WV-25951/2055771281_zpid/

$2-3k per acre is about right. Annual taxes, $100. No code or building inspectors where I live.
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PraiseBeToScience on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 2 children
What's happening in Tennessee then?
ChristIsLord on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
Show me good land for cheap in WV and I'll be there next week
ValuesLiberty on scored.co
1 year ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
See my post above. Found it with 5 minutes of looking. Decent land for $2-3k an acre is pretty normal in WV.

> Not the best property but I barely looked, 12 acres, lots of frontage in Hinton, West Virginia. $29k https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/800-Madams-Creek-Rd-Hinton-WV-25951/2055771281_zpid/

> $2-3k per acre is about right. Annual taxes, $100. No code or building inspectors where I live.
PraiseBeToScience on scored.co
1 year ago 5 points (+0 / -0 / +5Score on mirror ) 1 child
If only it was this easy.

Farmland costs so much that farmers either lease it or they carry millions in debt. Farming equipment like a tractor costs $100k so farmers have to rent it all. Seed stock is purched on license. Companies like Jewn Deere try to fuck you over and make you license the software to make the tractor run so you pay monthly use fees. And your entire livelihood can be wiped out without you being able to do anything.

Clarkson's Farm is comedic and scripted but does show some realities of what a pain in the ass farming is. When he started the farm the UK had the wettest year on record, and you can't do fuck all with land when it's wet.

He even managed to grow a small crop of real wasabi (which is near impossible) and nobody would buy it because the restaurants are all on contract.

Farming sucks.
ValuesLiberty on scored.co
1 year ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror )
> Farming sucks.

Sometimes it sucks. But mostly it's great, at least better than any cubical job I had.

It's been 6 years raising goats, never could think of going back. Love it. Get to spend my time with my two young boys. Get to spend time sweating with my wife with the sun on our backs. Farm stand doing better than I ever imagined. Pays the bills, no mortgage, and since I moved to WV surrounded by farmers I have no need for a tractor. 6 on my street. Could borrow anytime. Amish nearby. They make it work, we make it work. Never had so much food. Quality food too. Lots of standing Oak if I really needed money but so far so good. I'll let the kids harvest the timber after I am gone.

Am I rich? Nah, but everything I need is provided for.

Lots to be thankful for when you get used to farming and you step away from the machine.

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ChristIsLord on scored.co
1 year ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
I would do anything to be able to farm. But it's nigh impossible in this market. 10k+ an acre in most places with good farmable land. Where I'm at the only way to get any land and a house for less than 500k is if you don't get the mineral rights. In the Midwest where I'm originaly from it's even worse. It depresses me to no end. My Dad had 40 acres of wonderful land in IA but he sold it for pennies in 2012. In-laws refuse to sell any of their land to us. Was looking into USDA loans to sell my soul for a farm and I need to have proof of profits for 3 years to even get a starter farm loan. My only hope is the lottery
JoePutin on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Cant see the vid
iideathyii on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
commenting for later
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