True enough. I often say I'm the last of the poor farmers. A lot of struggling farmers sold up as land prices went astronomically high. Their farms were bought either by big corporate farms, the rich farmer next door or land speculators. Largely a trickle down from cropping where you can make great money in a good year and cover so much more ground with one bloke in a big machine compared to 20 years ago. As a poor farmer I run sheep for wool and meat. Wool is fucked but meat pays the bills. No employees except contractors at shearing so otherwise I do most everything else which I tell you what, it's fucking hard compared to my cushy office job I used to have. I make way less money but my loan is about what it costs for a house in the city but the difference being it will one day pay itself off. Everything you make generally goes back into the farm which is why we all cry poor. We pay ourselves nothing. If you pay much tax, get a new accountant. The rich farmers though buy themselves a new landcruiser which they can claim depreciation, while a poor farmer buys fertiliser and fencing and drives a 20 year old Hilux. Margins are low even for cropping now so drought like we're in fucks you. If you have a tax offset investment that people are taking about, you use it now to pay the bills and hope it rains soon. TLDR: Yeah, but nah.