There are different ways to configure your farm, 15 acres min. (At least for us)
No vehicle inspection unless you live in a couple cities.
Wheel tax can be a big deal, here it is $40 a year per vehicle (Johnson co)
Find a good local cpa that does small farms,they are your friend
Extra land that you dont want to mow or hay can be leased out to someone, we do about 9 acres of ours, our deal?
I get 48 square bails (mix of 1st and 2nd cut and 28 of those are from another field he does which have a nice sweet orchard my alpacas love)
He fertilizes with horse manure and bush hogs etc.
I have zero maintenance of the fields and love it.
Also since garden is done for the year, he dropped off 4 horses and a colt, to chill this winter, win/win for both of us.
Wife loves to watch them and spoil them
Sorry to rant op
Also decide what you want to "farm" and make sure there is a "large animal" vet close
When you go into a cat/dog vet and ask to buy or treat a non cat or dog you get
Good luck op, also you can visit your counties ag dept (or email UT they have ag extentions in most counties)
@kittyhawk