Stages of Learning in Farming - Becoming the Expert

By season 10 or before, you may be able to quit your day job if that is your goal. You have developed a playbook for your farm. Many farm families have off farm income and that is OK. But if you want to farm full time you will need a plan to do so. How much income will you need, what is the scale of your operation that will generate this level of income? Will you need farm workers? Have you achieved this goal? By year ten you should be approaching your basic farming goals.

Even so, there is much more to learn on the road to becoming an expert.