technically i am a forest and tre tech, glorified forester.
>What are the risks?
holy shit have you ever worked a day in your life?
i would just say, get a tractor/large truck license.
if you can maintain a chainsaw or lawnmower, most of the machinery isn't that much different.

first thing you wanna do is be born by rich parents, so you can buy land.

>what are the benefits
I hear the insurance and 401k plans are great

>>2794669
Don't make me tap the sign.

>>2794669>>2794669
If you're already gardening, just grow more plants. You can do this a myriad of ways depending on your situation. If you're renting, hydroponics is an option. I used to do this and I ate a fresh salad every day with strawberries and tomatoes. If you own a small city plot like I do, full up your whole yard with trees and perennial and annual veggies. I have a few neighbors who do row farming in their yards for personal consumption or selling at a market. If you're rural, traditional farming methods are available. Don't buy machinery or anything yet, your scale is going to be much smaller than that's worth, and frankly, you'll probably fail and give up anyways. None of the people I know have any machines except maybe a digging tool drill attachment for transplanting.

If you're going to sell this stuff, you have to be business minded. Work on growing stuff that people in your area want to buy. I live in a tropical region, so I grow stuff like figs and pomegranates and exotic tropical fruits that you can't find in stores. This stuff pays better per pound and takes less effort for me to grow because of my climate.

Just start small and get bigger over the years as you develop mastery. Work on trying to grow 10 pounds a week of (emphasis on the following) TASTY, HIGH QUALITY, ATTRACTIVE, NON-PEST EATEN food. This should take a couple years. If you can figure that out, then you're ready for the next step and you can come back and ask about farmer's markets and stuff.

Another option is starting a nursery. Do some research about what kind of stuff is in demand and start trying to grow it from seed.

>>2794669
You'd probably need around a million dollars in land and equipment if you want to get started tomorrow. If you want to build up to it then try high value crops like microgreens, mushrooms, ect.

>>2794669
>It's never what you do. That's how jobs are. Passion fades.
>>2797183
How do I stop this t. maladaptive daydreamer

>>2794669
Forget about farming on its own. You can do it if you have enough land, but getting that land will take years.
What you can do, however, is farm as a sidebusiness. In my case, for example, I've got bees (started when I was 14 and built it up slowly), chickens (started this year with 8 hens and a rooster, and they're already paying for their own food, I'll increase the numbers as I get more land) and fruit trees (one weekend in winter to prune them, a few days throughout the summer to harvest, then I make the fruits into wine and marmelade). Most people where I am grow grapes, and they'll usually have around 1ha, sell around 10000l and make around 20k profit while walking a regular job on the side.

>What are the steps I need to take?
Get land, grow shit, sell it. Maybe refine it inbetween.
>risks
Seriously? bankruptcy, not getting a wife, ruining your reputation for being that stupid hippie who thought he could just move out and become a farmer
>benefits
You might not starve. And you won't have to deal with superiors once your farm is established.
>How is the life of being a farmer?
Relaxed. If you set things up properly (growing what your soil is suitable for instead of what earns you the most) and don't have to bother with getting gibs (which will often require actions that make unnecessary or harmful work, ex. I wouldn't be allowed to use my chickens for weed control, as "intensive grazing" gets no money, but using herbicides does) you're looking at a few hours each day. Even less with animals - my bees take around 10min / week and hive, my chickens (the entire flock) around 5 min / day. Plus a few hours every now and then for harvesting honey or buying feed.

>>2797368
>need around a million dollars in land and equipment
Is the US that expensive? Here in Germany, to barely make ends meet with farming, you'd need around 200k€ worth of land, and about 10 of equipment. And that's already in one of the more expensive parts of the country.

>>2797375
>How do I stop this
Answer this for me:
1. What do you want to do (become a farmer, get into /out/ activities, just go outside)?
2. What is actually stopping you from doing what you want to do (depression, lack of money, anxiety)?

>>2797408
I don't really want to post anything that personal publicly (schizo). What part of the cycle is easiest to break and how?

>>2797403
>Is the US that expensive?
It depends on where you live, what you want to grow, and how much you want to make doing it. If you want to do corn then you're going to need hundreds or thousands of acres of land and a tractor with multiple attachments as well as the seed and fertilizer. A building to keep your farm equipment in would be important too so you don't have to transport it to your land each time. Something more profitable like asparagus would require you to buy more than 10,000 crowns and pay for the labor to plant them and then you'd need more labor to harvest them. The first few years would be small harvests too. On the other hand, you can set up a microgreens operation for a few thousand dollars in a spare room and make enough to live on as long as you have customers to sell to.

>>2794669
First do some research for what funding/grants are available for new farmers. Farming is a business and needs to be planned and researched as such. Passion/enjoyment will help, but it is about getting funding, getting land, working, planting and harvesting and getting the product sold at market.

>>2797573
>If you want to do corn
Wait, you're saying to just grow one crop? That sounds like a recipe for failure to me.
Do you not have those old-fashioned "an orchard, some berries, some veggies and a bunch of chickens" type of farms in the states?

>>2797573
>>2797907
>just do one of the most competitive bulk crops
got to do that market research.

>>2797428
get out of your own head, go do actual things, in this case even just getting agricultural textbooks and guides and doing actual research on how agriculture functions, and learning the actual math to figure out cost per area vs best and worst yield cases would count, though even just trying to grow things in pots would be a good start.
YouTube videos are NOT research.
In general, it's doing real, concreate things you can see and feel and show others, that you can have a sense of even some incremental feeling of accomplishment that help you grow out of the self-stimulation rut of malignant chronic idle fantasizing.

>>2798009
Ok thanks for replying anon
I'll do my best

>>2798065
you can do it frien.

WAGMI bro

What are the best ways to sell produce? Are you limited to the Sunday market?
Also what are best/most profitable produce? Honey, lamb, olive oil, wine, peppers?
How plausible is organic farming? Aka no pesticide?
Can a sustainable enterprise be done alone? (Except maybe harvest days)
I am inheriting 90 acres of temperate land which has 180 olive trees, ~150L of vineyard and about 20 mutt sheep. I am trying to turn it into something that can make money.

>>2797907
Monocropping is done because it's highly profitable and simplifies growing and harvesting a field. The crops are pretty much always rotated with other crops. Corn farms usually rotate through corn and basedbeans with corn being the cash crop.

>>2800022
>basedbeans
Kek. They're the actual cash crop because the subsidies for them are insane and the cost to grow them is next to nothing.

>>2794669
Even established farmers have to work a second job and are <10 years from having to sell everything, so the answer is that you don't.
Just start a garden

>>2800026
That describes corn

>>2797245
I didn't realize pomegranate was tropical. Any suggestions for other tropical plants to grow?