How’s this for a wild-cow investment? Loans are very hard to get, and even successful farmers and ranchers usually need seed and feed money. How about buying stock almost literally? Find a farmer/rancher, offer to invest, say, $2000 or so, and work out what a good share of his harvest is. If you took your pay back in meat, eggs, vegetables and such, even at retail prices, a good set-up would return ample and very real value, and it might even offer tax breaks. Perhaps you could arrange for him to run a feeder calf with his, thus turning about $250 into 800 pounds of pastured beef. Even with processing costs, that would be an excellent profit and a major upgrade in your family’s beef. Those would protect against a very lengthy depression and food shortages. Better yet, you could work out the place in the country you may need in case of serious unrest/collapse of the food distribution network. Just thinking, but an offer of capital to invest now in return for an agreement that you could could stay there in your Bug Out motorhome or towable trailer and share the added safety and food being produced strikes me as a very sensible insurance policy. It may not be traditional high finance, but it would be very practical.