Off-farm Income

SHOW NOTES On the Off-Farm Income Podcast we are always trying to solve the riddle of how can you become a farmer in the U.S. if you don't already have any land or equipment?  This show is about using entrepreneurship to create an agricultural business that will help you in this pursuit.  This is the method that I used to get myself onto my own farm, full-time.  This method is perfect for somebody who is mitigating risk as much as they can. This is not the only method however.  Other methods include leveraging debt to get started into a certain method of farming with the enterprise budget and business plan that you have laid out.  This is a valid method as well, but it is not for the faint of heart.  There was a story I ran across recently about a very young farmer who had got started in this way.  What stood out to me about this young man was how early he went for it. At a very early age, Zemua Baptista, knew that he wanted to be a farmer.  Growing up in a small town in Nebraska and seeing tractors an