Suppose a farmer in Georgia begins to grow peaches. He uses $1,000,000 in savings to purchase land, he rents equipment for $80,000 a year, and he pays workers $130,000 in wages. In return, he produces 200,000 baskets of peaches per year, which sell for $3.00 each. Suppose the interest rate on savings is 3 percent and that the farmer could otherwise have earned $35,000 as a shoe salesman.
a. The peach farmer earns economic profit of $____
