What I was talking about didn't have a darned thing to do with fund money, or anything else going on in Chicago.  I meant things like sell freezer beefs.  Sell produce at a roadside stand or farmer's market.  Get fertilizer at the terminal and spread it yourself.  Do your own soil sampling.  Do your own backhoe work, or engine overhauls, or welding, or a hundred other things.   Truth be told, holding the steering wheel doing tillage in a pretty new tractor is fun, but it's pretty much a minimum wage skill set.