I'm pullin' for ya Adam, but man oh man, you are On. The. Treadmill! Consider putting just ONE acre into a high-value crop just to experiment. Chestnuts can make you $10,000 an acre after 7 years (with no further inputs but mowing) just for example and you can plant your corn and soybeans between them while they're growing (OK, might have to limit spraying). Check out the Savanna Institute. They're doing good work. https://www.savannainstitute.org/ Or Kernza is a perennial wheat with a growing market. Hazelnuts and chickens are becoming a huge thing at the Regenerative Ag Alliance. There are other options and you're young enough to see the fruits of your labor. Hope you'll consider.
There's some exciting stuff here. It's pretty wild that Kernza roots reach more than ten feet into the soil! Plus, not to sound like a greedy capitalist piglet, but ten grand an acre is pretty nuts! I will explore this rabbit hole. Thank you for sharing, Suzan!
Congrats on the milestone!! Looking forward to another year, of reading, not farming, but that's another story for another time.
I'm pullin' for ya Adam, but man oh man, you are On. The. Treadmill! Consider putting just ONE acre into a high-value crop just to experiment. Chestnuts can make you $10,000 an acre after 7 years (with no further inputs but mowing) just for example and you can plant your corn and soybeans between them while they're growing (OK, might have to limit spraying). Check out the Savanna Institute. They're doing good work. https://www.savannainstitute.org/ Or Kernza is a perennial wheat with a growing market. Hazelnuts and chickens are becoming a huge thing at the Regenerative Ag Alliance. There are other options and you're young enough to see the fruits of your labor. Hope you'll consider.
There's some exciting stuff here. It's pretty wild that Kernza roots reach more than ten feet into the soil! Plus, not to sound like a greedy capitalist piglet, but ten grand an acre is pretty nuts! I will explore this rabbit hole. Thank you for sharing, Suzan!