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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Re-Raise" data-source="post: 5216225" data-attributes="member: 16501">I own the land. I was a UPS driver and don’t actively farm it.When my father retired from farming, we started “renting” it to a large farmer that farms next to us. He farms about 3000 acres with the machinery to do it.Some landowners agree to a certain amount per acre. Instead we split the input costs and sell our own half of the grain. We irrigate all of the land.When you ask about fallow ground, I assume you mean what we call CRP set aside ground. Yes, we have some acreage in the program that is at the field corners where the irrigation doesn’t hit.Inputs costs like fertilizer has increased a lot this year, but luckily for us our sharecropper was able to contract at a lower price through the local service company last year.Corn is at $7.50 a bushel right now. We’ll be fine</blockquote>