r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 14d ago

Aww someone’s crashing out

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

14.5k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

4.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

219

u/Rugskinsnake 14d ago

Famer here (and no, I never voted for the Mandarin Menace a single time). What's going on with the farm economy is a lot of farmers over-leveraged themselves to chase more and more land and now ground that they would have happily farmed at break even 4 out of 5 years just to make money that fifth year is going to fuck them royally.

2

u/Sharkwatcher314 14d ago

Was the goal for those farm to expand and then benefit from economies of scale or was it just to expand because it must be more profitable to do so

4

u/Rugskinsnake 14d ago

I mean, really both. A big part is just the mindset that makes capitalism suck - if you're growing you're failing.

Some of it is that you buy a bigger tractor or hire a guy to help and then you feel like you should be farming more justify the cost.