For more explanation on Custom Farming, listen to the presentation available mohey. Do you have the labor and machinery capacity to farm more acres, but do not want to lease more land? Would you like to reduce the financial risk exposure that you are carrying on leased crop land? Have you reached the payment limitation on one or more types of USDA commodity hoow Are you a farm owner who does not want to invest in a full line of machinery? Are you fully employed away from the farm or retired? An alternative to how to make money custom farming farmland is custom farming. The landowner pays for all seed, chemicals, and other inputs, and keeps all of the crop and commodity payments. One obvious advantage to the custom operator is that little or no additional operating mzke is needed.