Good (if very cursory) read on farm hobby accounting. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/big-farms-are-getting-bigger-and-most-small-farms-arent-really-farms-at-all …
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Growing up we lived on a "ranch". Which was a 60 acre operation with ~30 head of cattle. Labor provided almost entirely by yours truly.
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It always lost money. We had it because it 1) was fun for my stepfather 2) labor (me) was free 3) it was a tax writeoff
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Did we actually "produce" anything? Not really. Not even close to what our plot of land *could* have produced.
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I'm not anti-farm subsidy. In fact, the U.S. being a net exporter of food is something that gives me comfort.
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But you're granting people tax benefits for holding productive land, even if they do fuck all with it. It's federal freeloading.
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similar here - you see some sheep with *very* nice views because if you sell a few, it lowers property tax on your waterfront land.
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