| XIX - 12/4/2016 16:06 That's exactly what I'm saying. No other industry in the world allows the kind of margins farmers do. Nobody would borrow $1million to hope to break even, or best case profit, what, $50k? Yet, that appears to be sop for farmers. Not knocking anyone in particular, just the industry as a whole. You could put that money in an investment and average a 10% return doing NOTHING, why would you work that hard and assume all the risk for less?
Find me an investment that returns 10% regularly that has less risk than grain farming.
If its out there why don't you go to your local bank and try to borrow $1 million at 5% interest and see what your banker thinks about it.
Grain farming is not nearly as risky as some seem to think it is.
Govt subsidized crop insurance takes out most of the risk if you used properly.
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