Cathy2 wrote:Long ago when I was a regular shopper at Tony Titus truck farm in Grayslake, where the Lake County Fairgrounds are now located. When I learned he was farming 200 acres. I recounted I heard a farmer needed to farm 1000 acres to succeed. He indicated if you are in commodity products, then you need 1000 acres. However as a retail farmer, he could succeed with only 200 acres.
I miss Tony and his family farm very much.
Regards,
Cathy2
That size may be right for commodity farming--and one of the reasons commodity farming works so well in IL is that the flat prairie supports such large farms, but most "farmer's market" farms are a fraction of that, like 10 acres, 40 acres, maybe 80. You don't need a lot of land to grow a lot of vegetables.
Think Yiddish, Dress British - Advice of Evil Ronnie to me.