Field of Dreams was on HBO the other night and I hate to be the guy to blow a hole in a great movie like this, but here goes.
Let's say for a baseball field with a little bit of foul ground you would need a square about 400 x 400 feet. That's 160000 square feet. There are 43560 sq ft/acre so thats approx 3.7 acres cut out of his corn field.
Here's where I need some of you farm humps to help me out since I don't know jack about farming. Interwebz research says there's approx 150 bushels of corn yielded per acre....saw a range of estimates but 150 was the number that came up the most. Current corn price in Iowa is $4.74 per bushel taking the average of the 6 regions listed on iowaagriculture.gov website. This looks to be higher than what Kansas is paying for corn
3.7 acres x 150 bushels/per acre = 555 bushels. 555 bushels x $4.74 = $2630.70
So, the annual loss of $2630.70 of corn revenue was going to cause him to lose his entire farm? Was the cost of constructing the field that high?