Nevermind.
Good farmers make over 50k a year.
Differents folks, different strokes, you overprivileged douche.
Anything over 30k per year is a LOT of money to me.
You don’t even know a cultivar from a weed growing in a ditch. What’s going to make you a good farmer? Farming is not an EZ get-rich-quick scheme. It’s a metric ass-load of hard work and knowhow. AND, as ladyfoxfyre said, NOT a one person job if you want to make money at it.
Yes, but good farmers need specialist knowledge, the determination to work hard, ability to manage money and to get on with others.
Your postings here do not suggest you have any of these qualities.
Here’s an example…
That has no bearing on whether you can earn it.
Nitpick. A weed is technically ANY plant that isn’t where it should be. Oak trees can be weeds.
So what is the human equivalent of a weed? Can we call it a Diamonds02?
Nailed it. Nice job!
Mitchell & Webb farming sketches. Note: Bit sweary.
Yes, with your “I’ll steal plants and plant them, then profit!” scheme, you are clearly in line to become a great farmer some day. You will not earn 30k stealing plants to grow and sell. You will not earn 10k stealing plants to grow and sell. Because you are an idiot. Who thinks you can get rich stealing plants to grow and sell.
This is exactly how I picture her scheming to work, actually. Awesome.
And where does that 50 big go, do you think? Big time farms are huge operations, not a few flowerpots on the back porch.
Mortgage and property taxes on the land and buildings they own, lease payments to whoever does if they rent.
Cost of seed, fertilizer, irrigation, pest control.
Purchase/maintenance of equipment, buildings, vehicles.
Hiring workers to help with all of the above.
Their own personal living expenses, health care, raising a family etc.
Not to mention the fact that a year’s profits can be wiped out by storms, drought, late/early frosts, insects, or just plain old bad luck like a batch of bad seed.
Farmers are hardly kicking back eating peeled grapes off gold platters before cruising off to Palm Beach in their diamond-encrusted Lamborghinis.
Farming is also not a side hustle. It is a full time capitol intensive occupation.
Not to mention that all these “rich” farmers making $50k a year are working MORE than full time. Farming can be back breaking work, and you’re likely going to be doing some kind of work all day, every day.
Further, these days, you need a sizable plot of land (thousands of acres) to make that kind of living, and your main cash crop has to be something people actually want and will pay a reasonable price for. Farmers have been ruined by events out of their control - like the price of corn falling or a particularly bad storm.
To make anything close to $10k a year from random plants off the side of the road (i.e. weeds, mostly) would be a full time job in itself with an incredibly large chance of failure.
I will note you can make at least pocket change by taking wild berries (prickly pear cactus also works in Texas) and producing some jams and jellies. Of course, that’s also a lot of work, and your profit margin is pretty damned small.
I’d say let Diamonds try. Let her find out just how hard farmers actually work and why we’ve developed agriculture, rather than stick with gathering plants from random plots of land. Sometimes, direct experience is the only way to cure idiocy.
Mmmm, nightshade preserves. My favorite!
Welp, that confirms it. I am invisible.
(Post #98, if anyone can see this)
Gotta start reading slower. I wondered how she was going to shit on someone’s dick.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Sodomy, kid. Sodomy!
Sorry, matey. Didn’t read page two.
- I * gotta start reading slower, too. Took me three or four tries to even find the joke. :smack: I’m glad nobody in the office heard me giggle when I did, because I really didn’t want to have to explain that one.
"Okay, see, there’s this human weed … no, not that kind of weed, although that might explain some things … and she’s got this get-rich-quick scheme where she shits on people’s flowerbeds and … wait, that’s not right, hang on a sec … "