Jul 17, 2026 · 13 min · 11 segments
Seven and a half years ago, a farmer wrote down five goals. The last one: use a farm to buy a farm. He just closed on fifty acres for over a million dollars. The farm's financial track record made the…
The farmer that I featured on the podcast, Tony Barlow, runs Barlow Roots Market in Wisconsin.
He said that he's amazed at how many people don't even know how much money they spend in their business or their life each month.
Otherwise, how do you survive it? Here's where a lot of new farmers make a critical mistake.
They have savings, they have spousal income, they have a credit line, and they use that money to fund the farm.
No injecting personal savings, no crossing money from his off-farm job into the farm.
It sounds restrictive, but it's actually freeing because it forces you to grow at the pace that your business can actually support.
The farmer that I featured on the podcast, Tony Barlow, runs Barlow Roots Market in Wisconsin.
He said that he's amazed at how many people don't even know how much money they spend in their business or their life each month.
Otherwise, how do you survive it? Here's where a lot of new farmers make a critical mistake.
They have savings, they have spousal income, they have a credit line, and they use that money to fund the farm.
No injecting personal savings, no crossing money from his off-farm job into the farm.
It sounds restrictive, but it's actually freeing because it forces you to grow at the pace that your business can actually support.
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