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Leased a field today for grain farming, Dream Realized!!!

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dmiller

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Shook hand with a gentleman today (great reputation from people I know well) for 20 acres of irrigated land. The plan with the landlord is to put it into a wheat barley rotation for 4 years and then back into alfalfa.
Will not rip out the existing grass till fall and then probably plant winter wheat this fall, might wait until spring and do barley instead. Anyhow, thought I'd share my excitement with all of you who have had advice and encouragement along the way.
 
Congrats, welcome to the wonderful world of farming. :) Check your fingernails, they will get shorrter from here on out. :) :)

What part of the country are you in, I forgot?

--->PAul
 
About 40 miles south and a bit west of Billings MT. I'll add this to about 60 acres of hay and 6 sows along with full time plus as a high school ag teacher.
 
Congrats. We too (son and I) rent land, from the owner of a local feed store. We pay NO rent, but sell what we produce to his store at a fair price. Corn, beans and wheat. We bag a good portion of ear corn and it's turned out quite enjoyable with enough profit to maintain and improve our "toys".
 
What kind of AG courses do HS students get? Animal husbandry or crop talk? How many credits can they take and still graduate?
 
In my school we offer semester courses; Ag animals, Horticulture, ag bus/leadership, Natural Resources (agronomy/forestry/soils), welding, woodshop, small eng., and a Intro. to Ag year long introductory class.
They have to take 2 credits of "vocational" (ag, business, or Family COnsumer sciences) to graduate but can take 2 classes per year of ag if they choose to use their electives that way.
I feel pretty blessed to be still teaching industry/production/ job skills type courses and not just an alternative science program like in many states.
 
Good for you. Now that you're adding farming to your list of vocations, you might just learn enough to be able to teach a kid how to farm someday. No matter how much my ag teacher tried to teach us, it seemed to never really work quite right. This is a vocation that never has had a 'one size fits all' answer. Much of it is improving what we learned in school with what we learn in the school of hard knocks. Give it a few years, you will be able to pass on what you've learned in the school knocks. by the way, my ag teacher was a guy by the name of "Mr. Cobb"----
 
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