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Years back a high school classmate (came from a large hog raising family) told me how he had calculated that he could buy an auger truck and run to town cheaper than he could grind and mix his own feed on the farm. Several years later I ran into him again and he had gotten out of hogs ... couldn't figure out how to make a profit.

It is predictable. When you can only stay in business because of the money then you are involved in a system that is designed to fail (or make money for the banker). It follows from this that if you do not do things for money then you cannot lose.

I've been reading a couple of books by Joel Salatin who runs Polyface farms who claims to be doing quite well farming by direct marketing to consumers and restaurants. He raises grass fed beef supplements them with kelp and rotational grazing no antibiotics or wormers. He also runs chickens on pasture as well as rabbits. Whatever feed he needs is non gmo. Claims that by cutting out the middle man by selling retail he has been successful.

Short vid.