It isn't a couple hundred acres its a little over hundred.
My BIL farms over 600 acres while teaching school, the farm roughly pays for itself with maybe a little extra towards their personal income. When he retires he'll have a three quarters to a million dollar asset to sell or rent but that's after busting his *** for 40 years making it pay while working a full time job.
His father raised 8 kids and made a good living on 800 acres but those days are long past. Just like how a generation earlier could make a good living on 160 acres and the generation before could do the same on 80 acres.
As stated below the big farmers are the same as the little farmers only with more "0s". The differance is can you live on $5000 a year or $50,000 a year?
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