I really feel for you guys that actually farm

BobReeves

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Must be tough, all I want to do is plant an acre of sunflowers, plowed it several months ago then ran a tiller over it set shallow a few weeks ago. It's more or less ready to plant but right now it has standing water and expecting more rain in two days. No way will it have time to dry out before it rains again. On top of that it now has a pretty good stand of grass and weeds that have sprouted. Going to spray the whole thing with a round up generic tomorrow in hopes I can kill everything and reduce my dealing with what is already growing after I get it planted.

Must really be tough when your whole life depends on being able to get a money crop in with mother nature fighting you tooth and nail.
 
Ya,what are you gonna do? No two years are alike. If you farm long enough,you learn to just deal with it. I think it was three years ago that I finished mudding in silage corn on June 23,but I got it in and it made a crop. This year is just getting awful repetitious. Been raining every Thursday. By Monday it's dry enough to haul manure again,so I haul Monday,Tuesday and Wednesday,then take a four day weekend. This week looks to be more of the same.
Two of the last six years,I've planted oats in March. This year,there's no way they'll go in before the middle of May.
Oh well.
 
It's not that bad if you farm bison.Open a gate once a week to let them into a fresh pasture, At calving season take a drive in the morning( if you feel like it) and count the new calves. Over the summer put up some hay to feed them in the winter once or twice a week( depending upon your ambition and energy level). Once a year round up the herd to sort and sell the calves or yearlings, pocket the money(mostly profit) and yer good for another year of taking it easy.
 
Its a challenge, more some years than others. But as I look out on the new snow in the yard this morning I just remind myself that in 40+ years of planting crops I have never failed to get the job done.
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A couple of years we didn't get into the fields until Memorial Day. One year I seeded 60 acres of wheat before the rains started. Later I seeded 60 acres of flax TWICE and both time it drowned out. The only grain crop that we got to harvest that year was the 60 acres of wheat
 
(quoted from post at 11:54:18 04/24/17) It's not that bad if you farm bison.Open a gate once a week to let them into a fresh pasture, At calving season take a drive in the morning( if you feel like it) and count the new calves. Over the summer put up some hay to feed them in the winter once or twice a week( depending upon your ambition and energy level). Once a year round up the herd to sort and sell the calves or yearlings, pocket the money(mostly profit) and yer good for another year of taking it easy.

Around here we kind of call that ranching instead of farming.
 
(quoted from post at 19:52:19 04/24/17)
Dad always said the biggest gamblers in the world aren't in Vegas...its farmers. But he row cropped as long as his health let him.

Since I don't go to casinos or other similar exercises, I tell people I don't gamble, yet I farm. Most people don't get it.
 
Make sure you wait to reseed after roundup, we do 7 days on no till, would wait till everything good and dead before tilling.
 
(quoted from post at 20:06:13 04/24/17)
(quoted from post at 11:54:18 04/24/17) It's not that bad if you farm bison.Open a gate once a week to let them into a fresh pasture, At calving season take a drive in the morning( if you feel like it) and count the new calves. Over the summer put up some hay to feed them in the winter once or twice a week( depending upon your ambition and energy level). Once a year round up the herd to sort and sell the calves or yearlings, pocket the money(mostly profit) and yer good for another year of taking it easy.

Around here we kind of call that ranching instead of farming.
round here as well but there are still people that call their place a beef or bison or horse farm, and then there is the term... farming bison, you never someone saying,.. i ranch bison.lol
 
Depends on location too on the East Coast almost no one calls their ag operation a ranch even if its a couple thousand acres and only raise cattle its still a farm.On the other hand I've seen
places in Texas with 5 acres and 10 goats called a ranch.
 
(quoted from post at 03:52:58 04/25/17) Depends on location too on the East Coast almost no one calls their ag operation a ranch even if its a couple thousand acres and only raise cattle its still a farm.On the other hand I've seen
places in Texas with 5 acres and 10 goats called a ranch.

Yup. Farm and ranch seem to be an east and west thing as far as livestock operations go.
 

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