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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My family has a farm, basically as a weekend place nearby, and they let a local farmer run cows and cut hay. For that reason, they pay like $400 a year in property taxes because of an agricultural property tax exemption with the county. It’s not expensive. America likes farms.

If you open a winery or some sht, or want to sell culinary herbs or whatever as your main business, and actually be a farmer full time, then yes that will get expensive and you will have a bad time. Unless you can somehow grow like[b] truffles [/b]and sell them for $2000 a pound. [/quote]

This is a good thought but with truffles you'll barely break even.  There was an article in one of the foodie magazines this past year about a former actress (I recognized her name so she must have been big time because I don't know nuthin' about Hollywood) who set up a saffron farm.  The article put a pretty spin on it but you could tell she was gritting it out.  She couldn't even afford labor to help harvest.  She had to have friends come and help.  She played it off as a "party" but it was pretty easy to read the writing on the wall.  Yikes.  Only start a hobby farm if you have money to burn and you don't mind burning it.[/quote]

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