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What a year!

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kyhayman

08-27-2003 18:32:40




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Has anyone besides me found this year to be exceptionally difficult? First it was too wet, then it was too dry, then too wet again. Then I had to have the vet pull 3 calves in a row (and lost 2 of the cows), and now the storm last week brought 100 mph straight line wind, lost the main hay shed and got 3" of rain on 2000 squares of timothy. To top it all off now they want $1300 to replace a grease seal in my truck.

At least health and hearth are ok. :-)

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Fred OH

08-29-2003 05:43:17




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 Re: What a year! in reply to kyhayman, 08-27-2003 18:32:40  
Forecast for here in southern Ohio is rain for the next 5 days in a row...to describe the rest of the year...rain...washed away everything but the mortgage. Saw something recently that I hadn't seen before...was standing on the front porch about 4:30 in the morning while it was raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock...and out under the night light at the garage was a site...there was a whole flock of those great big night moths swarming around it...and bats coming through every now and then catching them. All the while it was pouring down rain. After daylight and the rain I walked out there and huge wings from the moths were laying everywhere. Must have been a mating ritual...Anyone ever experience this? L8R....Fred OH

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RayP(MI)

08-28-2003 17:36:02




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 Re: What a year! in reply to kyhayman, 08-27-2003 18:32:40  
Yeah, it's been one of those years! Wife lost her job 2 1/2 years ago, can't find another. No one wants a 52 year old nurse with 24 years of experience. With the economy, my job as a substitute teacher has hit a new all time low as far as calls are concerned. The schools are doing everything they can to reduce sub calls, and there's more of a teacher pool than ever before too. Son and I tried to put up as much hay as we could this summer - more breakdowns than you could believe. We finally gave up with about 20 acres untouched. Returned borrowed baler today, as a matter of fact. Those knotters just wouldn't be dependable. I'm beat, son is started college, and sub calls should start up, I hope. there's 1800 bales in the barn, and a big wagon of oats in the pole barn. At least our sheep, llamas and bunnies will eat. I hurt all over!

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Chris Jones

08-28-2003 13:30:48




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 Re: What a year! in reply to kyhayman, 08-27-2003 18:32:40  
Lost my job 12/31/02 as a computer programmer and haven't been able to get another yet. I thought people in computers were supposed to be in demand but everyone in the area is cutting staff and if anyone is hiring they want some special skill that I don't have. Plus there are apparently lots of other programmer out to get any job that opens up. I've heard time and time again about programming being contracted to India--heck while they were appoligizing and telling me it was the economy as they showed me the door they have their lawyers processing green card paperwork for an Indian collegue so he can stay in America and I was there over 2 years before he was hired. Sorry I don't mean to be disgruntled but this is the second spell of unemployment that has hit me in 10 years and I can't keep doing this. As far as the weather I barely got enough tomatoes from the garden to eat myself when I could actually walk into it to pick them with out sinking in the mud. Perhaps I should have started a rice paddie. Also wanted to note the 2 record ice storms that we had this past winter that devistated my trees leaving almost every limb broken out of my favorite large beech tree--I rented a bucket lift and cut each broken one off below the break. It looks pathetic but it has some leaves and I hope it will make it. But on the up side I'm loosing weight. I've gone from a 38 waist to a 32 with out even trying.

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Shane

08-28-2003 09:40:09




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 Re: What a year! in reply to kyhayman, 08-27-2003 18:32:40  
We have all the same problems, wind, rain, no rain and all except it isn't $1300 for a seal but $3000 for another bulk tank for the dairy opperation. What a storm we got too, took out the power for 30 hours.



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Shep VA

08-28-2003 07:34:35




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 Re: What a year! in reply to kyhayman, 08-27-2003 18:32:40  
Dont feel bad, the entire east coast has been getting the same kind of weather you have. I have pulled tractors out of the mud, had corn drown and slugs eaten and replanted , couldnt even get into the fields to get some of the hay brought up, and then it all quit. It all got dry and hard and nothing wanted to grow, we made hay and now its trying to get wet again.

You are right, this has been a very trying year, and we have done things with crops and machinery that I have never done, and hope to never do again. Fortunatly nothing is torn up beyond repair, and we still have enough feed, but it makes you grumble sometimes.

But you do the best with what you have to work with and keep moving.

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Jim Handke

08-28-2003 07:19:27




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 Re: What a year! in reply to kyhayman, 08-27-2003 18:32:40  
Our last good rain was on June 23rd. Some corn has been appraised at 1 1/2 bu./acre, lotsa silage being chopped. I don't have to run a combine through a lot of my corn. And now the beans are drying up, a little more showing every day. At least the temps dropped from the 100s into the 80s.
And I still love to farm. We always say, next year will be better.



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jw57

08-28-2003 06:40:39




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 Re: What a year! in reply to kyhayman, 08-27-2003 18:32:40  
I can well identify with your problems.During the 4 1/2 years my Dad's been gone I think I have just about seen most of it.When I stop to count the things that have gone right and think about what others have had,I get to feeling that we get along real well and that what happens is jusy life.I know others around you semm to be getting ahead while you go backward but they are probably envious of you at times.It always seems to storm the hardest just before the sun comes back out.Not trying to talk down to you -just sharing some thoughts which help me at times

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Nebraska Cowman

08-28-2003 04:43:53




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 Re: What a year! in reply to kyhayman, 08-27-2003 18:32:40  
wet, then it was too dry, then too dry again. It is a land of extremes. One field of milo is terraced; the channels are bare where the crop flooded out then a strip of headed milo about 8 feet wide, then the rest of the field is drouthed out. I tryed to bale alfalfa monday morning at daylight but it was too dry to start a bale so I tryed to bale sorghum. that was too dry too so I came home and dumped the 1/3 bale in the pasture. went to the sale. came home about 3 pm found one cow dead and another down. nitrate poisening I guess.

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Indydirtfarmer

08-28-2003 03:03:08




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 Re: What a year! in reply to kyhayman, 08-27-2003 18:32:40  
If we have a "good year" prices drop like a rock. Have a bad year, and, well, prices drop like a rock too. We got too dry in March, flooded in April, May, and June. Decent weather in July. Now August is getting too dry- fast. Too much rain early ment some corn late getting out. My beans look better than I,ve ever seen them. I have 2 fields that are looking like 65+ bu. to the acre. (That's a big WOW around these parts) We had a tractor stolen, early in the year. (My deceased father-in-laws JD4440) Another decided to loose an engine, right at hay cutting time. That was a $6500 hit. (Plus 6 weeks down time) Nobody ever said this was easy! I still wouldn't trade my "job" for anyone else's. Hang in there. Something tells me that better times are right around the corner.

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Shane

08-28-2003 14:13:11




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 Re: Re: What a year! in reply to Indydirtfarmer, 08-28-2003 03:03:08  
Must be right around the corner in a round barn! Yeah, I wouldn't trade this livin for nothing! Shane



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Dean Barker

08-27-2003 22:28:20




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 Re: What a year! in reply to kyhayman, 08-27-2003 18:32:40  
I'll second that. We had a perfect year until about May 1st. Then it got too cold and wet and had to replant about half of the corn. Planting beans, the 4320 blew a steering line, covering the front half of the tractor with oil. Then during spraying with the 1655, the crank broke. $5600 dollars and one month and that was fixed. Had to replace the radiator in the 89 T-type with a new one. Then the wife had a fender bender up in Austin (not her fault), and American Family Insurance wanted to total it. Cost $3700 to fix that; been fighting American Family ever since for payment. Took the 1655 on a tractor ride to the Mississippi; while parking along the river, blew the hydraulic line out of the priority valve. Took 3 hours and $70 to fix that. Bought a couple of used gravity wagons to haul in the bumper crop we were supposed to get; half of the wheel bearing were out and have to buy 3 new tires. Since then it has quit raining; the corn and beans are drying up and the aphids have hit the beans which cost $10 dollars an acre to spray. Hope the rest of the year goes better. I guess this is par for us farmers.

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Shane

08-28-2003 14:11:12




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 Re: Re: What a year! in reply to Dean Barker, 08-27-2003 22:28:20  
Have the aphids come back since sparying? We had them too but soon noticed all the "lady bugs" eating them up. Was advised NOT to spray since it kills the predators of the aphids and then they just come back and now you have no defense. Just had an inch of rain that came down in less than 2 hours and washed all those dudes away. Sorry bout your luck, as said it is par for us farmers! Shane



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Dean Barker

08-29-2003 15:56:14




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 Re: Re: Re: What a year! in reply to Shane, 08-28-2003 14:11:12  
Shane--We sprayed with Lorsban, supposed to last 14 days. We had very few lady bugs; where are they when you need them? I didn't check back for a week, but seemed to kill almost all of the aphids. Still dry here.



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Garry

08-28-2003 06:36:14




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 Re: Re: What a year! in reply to Dean Barker, 08-27-2003 22:28:20  
..... ..... and that was the good news!!



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KB

08-27-2003 19:11:27




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 Re: What a year! in reply to kyhayman, 08-27-2003 18:32:40  
Hang on then because all the wholly worms up here are coal black head to tail. Grandma always swore that meant a hard cold winter.

Gloom dispair and angony on me.....



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Indydirtfarmer

08-28-2003 08:58:02




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 Re: Re: What a year! in reply to KB, 08-27-2003 19:11:27  
We're in for a rough winter! I saw several wooly worms that are solid black too. This is one thing that is fairly reliable. Oh well. I guess that snow plow I just bought will come in handy for something afterall.



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Mike (WA)

08-28-2003 08:50:55




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 Re: Re: What a year! in reply to KB, 08-27-2003 19:11:27  
We used to look at the stripes on the wooly worms, too- but haven't seen one in years! Wonder what that means. . .



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Les...fortunate

08-27-2003 19:01:50




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 Re: What a year! in reply to kyhayman, 08-27-2003 18:32:40  
Sounds like if it weren't for bad luck, you'd have no luck at all :(
Les the fortunate



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Brian

08-27-2003 19:37:54




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 Re: Re: What a year! in reply to Les...fortunate, 08-27-2003 19:01:50  
Maybe a new name is in order- Dark Cloud. Like the Cub fans say "Just wait til next year"



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