All the farmers that I have any personal knowledge of, aside from a couple of elderly farmers whose land holdings are large and were paid for a couple of generations ago, have to work a good paying full time job to support themselves and farm only as a lifestyle. Sometimes they make some money and sometimes they lose money by raising mainly soy beans as crops and buying and raising baby pigs and selling them when they get big and hauling the whole lot live to the butcher whose charges the customer to butcher them as the customer desires. If they had a mortgage on the farm and had to pay the bills from farming they couldn't make it. They work day and night and don't have much free time. Half of the years it rains too much or it rains too little and they don't make a profit on crops. One time a pack of stray dogs entered a pig pen in the middle of the night and killed all of one guy's pigs after he raised them all year. It is a rougher way to make a living than Green Acres makes it out to be.