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Originally Posted by BurningDownTheHouse

This lands a bill of around $6200 in the farmer's hands, for a quarter-section of land. If your average farm operates on 4-5 sections, that's up to $125,000 - not including the cost of seed and seed treatment, equipment costs, fuel, equipment maintenance, grain storage and transport fees, and so on. Now account for yield-loss due to insects, drought or (as has been the case the last 3 years) flooded-out fields, hail storms, etc.

You forgot one of the biggest expenses, fertilizer. Which has doubled over the last few seasons.