>>1442404>>1442409>>1442405It really depends on the prices in your area, but in general, if you do it correctly you can grow and raise stuff cheaper than what you can get at the store. That is comparing breed to breed and cultivar to cultivar. Most grocery store breeds and cultivars are for industrial farming. You normally can't find Burbon Red turkeys or Reisetomate tomatoes in stores, but Broad Breasted White turkey and Trust F1 Hybrid tomatoes are normally in abundance.
>farmbotThere are industrial level farms with automated monocrop systems and drones.
>>1442435>>1442441I have an orchard. The nursery trees cost $15 each back in the day. The others were free since I grew them myself. 30 bushels of apples per tree per year is nothing to sneeze. Tomatoes, zucchini, and cucumber are the worst vegetables/fruits you can grow to hope to get a profit. Even heirloom tomatoes need a niche market, but if you can score it great. I don't use any pesticides on the trees. The most I do for them is to prune them and scatter some chicken crap through the area when I clean out the coop. When I have a new flock of chickens growing, which need to be penned up for protection, I pen them around a tree for a few days. They fertilize the tree and remove pests from the grass and soil then I move them to the next tree.
>wheatYeah, that's more of an industrial farm crop really. For instance, wheat gives you eh around 35-40 bushels of grain per acre while sorghum or corn can give you 125 bushels of grain per acre.
>>1442413Hope you like rabbit and chicken. If you have enough pasture for grazing, growing hay, and grain then you can do it. I eat about 4oz of meat a day and that's chicken from my flock last season. I'm gearing up for replacing my egg laying flock soon. If you have a more land you can upgrade to goats; even more land and you can upgrade to beef. If you don't have much land at all then you can double down and raise snails for meat.
