Most PROFITABLE Crops Small Farms Should Grow & Sell..
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Most PROFITABLE Crops Small Farms Should Grow & Sell..
Welcome back to Down On The Farm, today on this channel we are going to talk about “ Best Cash Crops for Small Farms” On a given day in the life of a farmer, there are multiple aspects and areas that demand attention, including soil health, crops, market, labour, climate, farming methods and technologies being used. Each factor plays a role in ensuring success and profitability in a farm business. However, when it comes to small scale producers, it is of paramount importance to mindfully identify and choose crops that are capable of bringing relatively more profit even with minimal capital investment and care. These crops are basically called cash crops as they ensure maximum profit and return even on a small farm and are mainly grown for revenue and export rather than sustenance.
Small farmers can ensure the highest price for their produce by selling it directly to customers or making value-added products out of it. However, taking care of all marketing and sales on your own also means more hard work and time. After a certain scale, it becomes difficult to sell all your harvests for maximum price in the time that is available to you alongside production. As your farm expands, you may need to consider selling, at least some parts of your produce, to wholesalers for a lower price to get your produce selling faster and with ease.Check this video out and stay updated!
looks like im becoming a farmer!! yeehaw!
Thanks for the idea with the garlic. Hi from Germany, I am a graduated biologist and gardener who just bought my first garlic.
@ListenLook7 Thank you for your comment dear. Yes I would never do an online course and the internet is giving contradictory advice. Decades ago I have done an apprenticeship in gardening and am a graduated biologist. The garlic I bought comes from a small trustworthy family business here in Germany and they gave good advice. It is already growing and I have customers waiting to buy it. My main crop is Yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius) and I got good new varieties for free from a breeding station in Belgium. Happy gardening!
This is like the gardening equivalent of one of those baking/cooking videos for which there are entire other channels to debunk the fakery.
Mushrooms don’t have seeds but spores
Ya. Those spores are humungous.
Yeah and apparently you can get 100 spores for only $20, what a deal! I wonder if the spore-provider individually counts each spore.
When the govt tells you not to plant…..PLAAAAANNNNNNTTTT!!!!
So why did your exploration into Lavender include a shot of “Fireweed?”
Ha! I thought I imagined it at first, but I backed it up and checked. Yep, fireweed.
How silly, they show the easiest and one of the most valuable at the start and then say nothing about it. I’m referring to the Fiddlehead ferns I planted one plant, and every spring there are even more. I don’t have to do anything, they spread on their own by the hundreds. (I grow garlic also, but the ferns take care of themselves.)
And like everything, where do you market it? The rules are so strict
@Pete Foots What rules? Plus people can eat them themselves, they taste good and you can find recipes.
Well you can’t walk into a farmers market without buying a permit and having your operation “inspected” plus market fees. At least not in my world and how can it be “profitable” if I’m the only one eating it.
I tried planting fiddlehead fern. Amazingly they didn’t make it though I have a whole hillside covered with native ferns which are not the ostrich or edible kind. There are laws even governing seed grown plants in my state, and you can’t sell baked goods. To sell greens they have to be in open bags or bundles. Big brother came down to squash small farms which is why their income only gets smaller as do their numbers.
@Skitdora2010 I used to sell in a farmer’s market mostly fruits and jams, but stopped doing it because the changes in the rules and regulations. I decided last years to start again, the state said “sure, no problem, you passed the required test” but never sent me the documents that I needed to display to sell. LOL A somewhat sneaky way to not allow me to sell.
This video is 100% generated by AI 😂
“Mushroom seeds” I’m fucking dying
You must be a teacher (if you can’t do anything be a teacher or a cop) too plug a certain school. I would say READ a book and talk to other farmers at a market out of your area
Amen. Most farmers don’t earn a decent living anyway because universities teach them how to do big-ag monoculture. Any young person who wants to build a profitable farm should forego universities and learn from specific folks on YouTube who are hitting the cover off the ball regarding profitability per acre and per man-hour on a small farm. They are EASY to find on YouTube, and all the best ones teach, too.
The video gave a few interesting ideas.
Bamboo, Mushroom,Garlic, Ravender
Bamboo destroy the entire Eco system of the western hemisphere because it completely overgrows any land it is planted on
It’s my understanding that creating textiles from bamboo takes an intense amount of chemicals. I don’t think it really qualifies as sustainable. Anyone have info to the contrary?
@Greg Smith he may have meant its a sustainable building material, since it grows full size in like 5 years
@Pancake Viking Bamboo grows full size in 60 days, it does not grow bigger as it get’s older. Of course it may take five years for the rhizomes to develop to produce full potential.
Baloney, @Claysif. My dad spent his 50-year career as a horticulturist who landscaped such sites as the Chinese Embassy in Washington D.C. and the LBJ Memorial Grove. He also planted bamboo in our back yard in Maryland. It didn’t overrun the yard. It also doesn’t overrun the properties of many restorative/regenerative farmers and agroforestry practitioners on YouTube who plant it for windbreaks, animal fodder, privacy, building materials, fiber, and biomass. The people saying bamboo is evil are often the same ones who pander the same drivel about Paulownia and willow. Most plants can be used to advantage somewhere.
The thumbnail showed fiddlehead ferns but I didn’t see them in the video. Did I miss it?
I was interested in the produce that was on the title page , but no mention of it in the whole video 😳 🤔
Good video but .
bamboo can become a nusiance invasive species in the US
Man this is such an informative video I hope everyone watching has a great season growing
(1) bamboo
(2) mushrooms
(3) lavender
(4) garlic
(5) fresh Christmas trees
awiaponics willise less water and a 4by4daquaponics garden can easily feed 4 people all year not to mention the fish are good eating, it can bedone, it may be the wave of the future
Yes, An AI wrote the text for this video. In the case I’m sure the AI did a much better job than the human master.
They probably got federal grant money for these videos😢