Today we have something called Paralysis by Analysis. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in farming where today every segment of the operation needs to be a science.
Farming defies most business applications because much of the labor is not required, it is merely for convenience. I never needed that access road to farm; we hauled wood and product over that area for the last 200 years just fine, but we can now do it in all 4 seasons and have stopped a lot of soil erosion. The same for fencing, they are installed for my convenience not because my sheep cannot eat green grass, convert it to white wool and red meat without them.
I can just farm, or I can farm better. I can sit on my katoockis and yell at daytime political television all day, or I can go out and improve my farm, but don't tell me I have to calculate in a labor rate for doing the latter because that is not true. If I chose to sit on my rear end and watch TV, I would not have gotten the money for the access road, but then I would have not had to do the work either. The choice was mine and I felt justified in the finished project. Fencing is different, I could let my sheep graze the back forty with no fencing, the dog keeping the coyotes at bay, and then just sell my lamb for a higher profit, but it is not good for my soil to do that.
It is interesting because my degree in accounting comes straight from the bible where over 2000 verses tell us just what we should be doing; staying out of debt, running cars into the 1/4 million mile mark, buying everything in cash. After applying it to my life, I often have to ask my accountants and attorneys why if I am so wrong, I retired at age 42, and them...being much older...are not?
But my point in all this is not to sound like a keyboard-cowboy, but to encourage others to dig into the bible on what it says about finances, research Dave Ramsey information, go to the Compass One website, check out what David Jeremiah has to say about finances...and overall just be in this world and not of this world.