Another on buys the farm

Lazy WP

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Like Jon posted last week, or maybe earlier this week, we too bought a little place. Ours is 80 acres of all grass, an update old farm house, nice 3 car brick garage, and a barn that is almost usable for horses, 1 milk cow or something, after we do some work on it. Its just going to be a hobby "ranch" maybe. Since all the livestock we own at this point are equines, I guess we are horse ranchers. The wife got a decent job at the Cat dealer in Salina, and since I crawled into a truck, it really makes no difference where we live, as long as I can get the truck in. Hopefully the moisture that has been following us the last 4 moves we have made, will follow us here.

Speaking of trucking, you guys that have grain storage, may want to hold onto what grain you are going to produce. When I go North, I see lots of flooded out crops, south and west its dried out. I think there is going to be less produced then what the bigwigs think. I know in years past, if you drove from South Dakota to Texas a person could get a good Idea of what grain prices would end up at. Now days there are to many speculators involved, but from what I see, they are over guessing it.
 
LWP, Hope you are not down on the flats around Salina, KS. Have seen flooding in that area, and you mentioned you bring the rain(s)!

Home was about 100 miles west and north of there.
 
I'm glad you have a place of your own. It is comforting to not pay someone else to live. Will you miss Valentine? Jim
 
We are west of Brookville 1/4 mile off of 140. I missed all the floods around Salina. First time I moved down this way was in December of 98 and left in December of 06. Missed both of the big floods. We are over the humid line west of Salina, and it has been miserable (so I hear). The ac in the truck works great!!! I just tell the wife I need to sleep so I can leave early if its too hot for my liking when I am home. We actually closed on it a week ago today, and still have half a reefer trailer to unload. Any help is appreciated!!

Jim, we left Valentine almost 3 years ago. I miss the beauty of it, but not the work, or a large part of the people. When I broke my collar bone and 7 ribs, I lost the desire to work for someone else. I stayed with it for another 5 years, because I was afraid I didn't have any other options. Now I am buying a truck, and a place of my own. In debt worse then I have ever been, but its up to me to sink or swim.
 
Congrats on buying the farm. Was interested to read your take on the corn crop. I know where I was is only a drop in the big bucket but Monday I made a 500 mile sing from Central Tennessee thru central Kentucky on up 150 miles into Indiana then west to edge of Illinois down thru edge of west KY. to West Tennessee. I am 74 years old and been around these parts all my life and I can honestly say I have never seen a better corn crop potential. Planted early, plenty or rain and hot weather. The Ohio river valley farms look like record breakers. Maybe they will get good prices if the mid-west crops do not fair well. One mans misfortune helps someone else, guess that is the way it is farming. Crop is not in the bin but sure looks like a lot of corn.
 
We got between 1.5 and 4.5 last night depending on location. My beans are exploding If they don't get hail or hoppers I would guess 60 Bu.Corn is 7 ft tall and tasseled. This rain will satisfy
the tasseling corn.
 
Same thing going further North. Small grains might be a bit light, but there is one heck of a corn and bean crop out there.
 

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