Farming's very profitable once you have the equipment. Better yet, it's almost all passive income.

Here's a simple example. It's not 50k/day or anything, it's just to show how much money doing next to nothing can bring in once you're past early-game hurdles.

Have a greenhouse full of strawberries (100 crops around 4 iridium sprinklers) and 100+ preserve jars in a big shed (leaves room for other stuff, as max walkable layout is 137). Strawberry seeds only cost 10,000g, you'll already have the sprinklers anyway, and it's very easy to have built 100+ preserves jars after you've played for a bit.

First batch of 100+ jelly isn't ready until day ~13, and the per-day profit is low, only about 2.5k. But now the seeds are already paid for, and you have 100+ strawberries coming in every four days.

Now you spend a couple minutes every four days, and you're bringing in more than 40k each batch, so 10k+ a day.

And you're doing basically nothing. It takes maybe 30 seconds to run around holding X on your keyboard or whatever you hold on console, and you've got your strawberries. Walk to the shed, run around holding X for maybe a minute, done.

And then you still have the whole game to play, which you don't if you're reeling in 10k worth of fish every day. (Of course you can fish on top of it! The fishing mini-game is fun, but not "main source of income" fun to me.)

And that's not maxing out or anything, people who hustle don't make strawberry jelly.

Once you have equipment, farming practically prints money in this game.