One big one is that the broker was scamming us like other farmers were getting scammed. They were supposed to buy it at the end and rope-a-doped my partner. It was a nightmare. It's a lot of work pulling off a crop outdoors, if you can't work with nature, you're toast. But brokers from CO came to our state and carpet bagged a lot of farmers so there's a flooded open market, nobody is going to break even right now.
Farming takes up all your time from dawn to dusk, I didn't do anything else all summer, I can't commit that much of my time to such a project again... and it kicked my butt. I was hoping to get more out of it and now that's questionable unless I work for another year processing all this stuff. I'm retired, I don't have the energy or soundness of body. I also don't have the facilities or equipment to process nor do I have funds for all the other supplies like base materials and packaging, labels and all that.
I am glad for the experience but once is enough. I'm also glad I don't have to deal with all the ownership issues as well.
If I were young and had my own property at that location, I'd have a more positive view of it. But the market is flooded so I wonder how profitable it really is.
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