"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of." Thoreau, Walden (1854)
The capital you have to lay out for the return you get on it in farming just doesn't make a lot of sense. That's without getting into the hours you have to work.
"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of." Thoreau, Walden (1854)
The capital you have to lay out for the return you get on it in farming just doesn't make a lot of sense. That's without getting into the hours you have to work.