900 goat dairy farm

[Goat Whisperer]

You can't expect to make a liveable profit off of a hobby farm--you need a LARGE working farm to make enough money to support your family and pay the employees to make a large farm operate smoothly.

You are right! Look at the definition of "hobby farm"

hob·by farm
noun
a small farm operated for pleasure or supplemental income rather than for primary income.

from Wikipedia
A hobby farm (also called a lifestyle block in New Zealand) is a smallholdingor small farm that is maintained without expectation of being a primary source of income. Some are merely to provide some recreational land, and perhaps a few horses for the family's children. Others are managed as working farms for sideline income, or are even run at an ongoing loss as a lifestyle choice by people with the means to do so, functioning more like a country home than a business


With a hobby farm you may make a small profit, but most are glad to break even. No it wouldn't be livable.

@XtreemLee
So if the folks in the link you posted are making a livable profit, why are you considering it a hobby farm?

I really do not look at your "facts" as real facts.

Fact
noun

1. a thing that is indisputably the case.

 

[samssimonsays]

another factory farm?

I believe a "Factory farm" would be more for the production of animals to create a profit off the offspring. A DAIRY Farm would be making a profit off of the milk that comes from having offspring and usually they keep their doelings to replace the older ones only selling the bucks or wethers which usually don't bring in a lot compared to a doe. (If I am correct that is, I am no expert but I know how my neighbor who has a dairy farm operates and I have been reading tons about it for wanting to do it small scale.)

 

[SheepGirl]

Basically a "factory farm" is the confinement of animals for efficiency to make a profit. The proper term is a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) which are regulated by the EPA as well as state environmental agencies and local governments as well. It can be hogs, cattle, sheep, goats, chickens, turkeys, ducks, even horses. Animals can be raised for meat, milk, eggs, or wool, or a combination thereof.

 

[samssimonsays]

LOL thanks @SheepGirl ! I'm learning something new everyday! people around me use the term waaaay wrong

 

[OneFineAcre]

I read the entire article today and talked to a couple of the produce farmers at the market and they said the entire article was bogus
The numbers were just pulled from somebody's a.. Hole
ExTreme Lee shouldn't believe everything he reads on the Internet
Unless he just wants to believe everything he reads on the Internet
Of course anybody can write anything on the Internet
I just did
I think

 

[alsea1]

If you want to make it you gotta go big I guess. You need to be able to produce product at a price people can afford to pay.

 

[babsbag]

I don't know how they produce that much on that amount of land, heck I can't even get a tomato this year thanks to the ground squirrels and a few rogue chickens. But if they do, my hat's off to them and I would like to buy their book. Before goats gardening was my passion and now I am curious.