How To Haggle On A Farm

摘要

If you ever hear a farmer say, "I'm just a poor dirt farmer," you're about to be bamboozled. Don't fall for it. It's a pity-play farmers use when haggling. Just last week, I had a farmer come up to me lamenting his agricultural status, trying to get afree hive of bees. He should have known better than to try that line on a poor struggling beekeeper with a bad back."Poor dirt farmer?" I said, "You grow hydroponically." The farmer had recently jumped on the hydroponic bandwagon and literally left dirt behind, buying a fancy new greenhouse. It was one of those prepackaged deals where you fork over your life savings and a greenhouse company comes out and erects the Taj Mahal of greenhouses. The greenhouse had heated concrete floors for grow pots, a computer-operated drip-irrigation system, and an automated self-rising trellis. It even came with a pallet of perlite thrown in for free.