Winter Rye (4 ac) and Oats (3 ac) at the moment. I need to find a combine before too much longer, though. I've seen a few 30 year old ones advertised for around my budget of $1k or less. It's just a matter of getting them here.
With even bad yields I should get 80 bushels of Rye and 50 bushels of oats. That should be over 3 tons of grain, which is enough for me to get 7 pigs to market weight... minus the cut the guy with the roller mill takes. It's not enough to feed my farm for a whole seaon, but every single dollar counts when trying to be profitable in agriculture.
Once I pull out the Rye, I should be able to get two crops of Buckwheat which will also help clean up the ground. In place of the oats (I'm growing field peas in there with them) I plan to put in fodder beets for the pigs/cows. But, I can't find an organic source for fodder beets in the US... so I'm actually using organic turnips. They're not even fodder turnips, but can get up to 2 lbs each. It's the best I can do at this time.
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I have a tremendous ammount of sympahty for the plight of industrial raised broilers in the US. The fact we can get chicken for $0.99 per pound is all based upon the huge grain subsidies. There is this fear that the public will rebel when meat prices double. I think they OUGHT double. We need to be eating higher quality meat, less often, and as a society we will be far healthier and moral. I think my price of $3.50 per pound dressed weight on a chicken is fair... but I fear we have generations of consumers who view chicken as cheap and disposable meat. Good chicken raised correctly is unlike anything they've ever tasted.
My personal inspiration for the lifestyle change, though, is good old Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall:
http://www.rivercottage.net/
If you don't have his cookbooks, I cannot recommend them more... and yes he's English (so is my mother and wife, I have tremendous respect for the Smallholder lifestyle available in the UK):
http://tinyurl.com/25ke59
http://tinyurl.com/2zt3bo
http://tinyurl.com/2cmscb
