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I helped out a guy from church once who had just switched over two acres to pumpkins. He said he netted 10k an acre that year selling them to local pumpkin patches with almost no work.
Next year he had 20 acres.
It's non-stop work. Eventually, it folded and became ... A development.
For example, Wisconsin - https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Wisconsin/Publ...
> The number of farms in the United States for 2021 is estimated at 2,012,050, down 6,950 farms from 2020. The number of farms increased in all sales classes except $1,000-$9,999, $100,000-$249,999, and $1,000,000 or more. In 2021, 51.0 percent of all farms had less than $10,000 in sales and 81.5 percent of all farms had less than $100,000 in sales. In 2021, 7.4 percent of all farms had sales of $500,000 or more.
That 51% with less than $10k sales suggests a lot of hobby farms.