At the end of the year you get a gross profit of $0.016. From there you have to buy your seed ($0.04 each at your local hardware store), shovel, watering can...
Those numbers are only semi realistic. Your local hardware store probably only has sweet corn seed (what I priced) which will not yield as much as field corn, but it is worth more if you sell as sweet corn not field corn as most farmers are selling corn. I have no idea how to account for this important factor.
Mike Bloomberg hasn't heard of fertilizer, so I didn't bother pricing that, but to get the yield I quoted every year you need to replace what the corn takes out of the soil and that means fertilizer of some sort.
Those numbers are only semi realistic. Your local hardware store probably only has sweet corn seed (what I priced) which will not yield as much as field corn, but it is worth more if you sell as sweet corn not field corn as most farmers are selling corn. I have no idea how to account for this important factor.
Mike Bloomberg hasn't heard of fertilizer, so I didn't bother pricing that, but to get the yield I quoted every year you need to replace what the corn takes out of the soil and that means fertilizer of some sort.