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Larry NEIL 11-20-2012 20:11:30 76.202.223.46 Report to Moderator	Well crap Gary, Ya left me out in the cold on that one....the last time I planted ANY field corn was 1976! Medium flats as I recall with a JD 494A...er, nope I planted 30" rows for the first time on 320 rented acres with a borrowed JD 6 row planter. Seems to me it was a plateless planter too, but I remember it left me a few skips due to a problem with the hyd. cyl. linkage on the planter. If you raised it too high a part would flip over and not let the planting mechanisam work. That winter the ground was sold and they started earthwork on a subdivision. Plus the corn/bean prices went through the roof in about "74 and I couldn't see competing with the high rent guys for $2.10/bu corn so I went back to work in the construction business. Larry NEIL [Reply]   [No Email]
IaGary 11-20-2012 20:34:44 108.160.228.103 Report to Moderator	Re: So, what night is the forum chat gonna start? in reply to Larry NEIL, 11-20-2012 20:11:30   76 was my third year of farming. Also the year i got married. Had 80 acres of crop 40 sows and made $12,000. If we had 2 or 300 dollars in the checking account we had no worries. In 1998 I made $12,000 farming. 400 acres of crops and 40 beef cows. Also had a off farm job. Got worried when the checking account got below $3000 in 98. Gary   [Reply]  [No Email]
Larry NEIL 11-21-2012 09:21:02 76.202.223.46 Report to Moderator	Re: So, what night is the forum chat gonna start? in reply to IaGary, 11-20-2012 20:34:44   I remember going to two farm sales that winter where they also auctioned the ground for rent. first time I'd seen that, and in both instances the rent went for over $130.00/acre. Too rich for me at the time, but seems pretty cheap right now. Larry NEIL   [Reply]  [No Email]