A couple working six months per year for 50 hours per week on 20 acres can net $25,000-$30,000 per year with an investment equivalent to the price of one new medium-sized tractor. Seldom has agriculture held out such a plum. In a day when main-line farm experts predict the continued demise of the family farm, the pastured poultry opportunity shines like a beacon in the night, guiding the way to a brighter future.
Farmer/author Joel Salatin is an ardent believer that a small-scale farmer does not have to subsist at the poverty level. On the cover of Pastured Poultry Profits is the promise that one can "Net $25,000 in 6 months on 20 acres." That ain't chicken feed.