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During the period of low profitability (1998-2002), operations with between 500 and 1,500 acres earned an average net farm income of $67 to $68 per acre, or more than $10 per acre more than farms with less than 500 acres.
Buying shares in U.S. farmland funds is another option. Average-sized farms (420 acres) now cost $1 million or more to buy, says Shonda Warner, owner of Chess Ag Full Harvest Partners with offices in Dakota Dunes, S.D., and Clarksdale, Miss.