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Animal

10-07-2005 09:29:17




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It was raining one day this week so I had a little down time, turned on the RFD channel and caught this show with the Hefty Bros. the topic of discussion was the input costs with everything going out of sight. What world are they living in? The answer to high fuel was bigger equipment to work the ground just once with a huge field cultivator, the seed cost was to be offset by buying all your seed at one place and all of it at once, to save shipping cost, the answer to low prices for the crop was to drive a little farther spend a little more for fuel and get away from your hometown elevators. As a small farmer this did not make one lick of sense to me. Maybe this works for the corperate farms, but every thing I have is paid for and it is going to stay that way, or I will have an eighty acre golf coarse. I just wish americans would ban together and just use the Fuel that they have to have and put a hurt on these filthy rich oil people! This high fuel I am sure is making everyones life miserable, and yet the people that are supposed to represent us are letting this go on! I heard on our local farm radio station yesterday that sugar is one the rise in antisipation that the South America sugar cane will be used for Bio diesel, on the same news report the Bartlet grain price for yellow corn was a buck fifty eight,have you beet growers seen a price increase? If this country allows crops in from other countries for fuel production and yet still keeps our money in the basement, that should be the last straw! There I have vented I feel much better!

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ricedaddy

11-28-2005 17:02:34




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 Re: Ag Phd in reply to Animal, 10-07-2005 09:29:17  
ag PHD
Back in the early 70's if you will remember thousands of farmers went to washington (american farm movement) Farmers just wont stick together is the bottom line. All we were asking for was parity not subsidies. As for as the gentleman from Pa. I would like to know the programs that pays you to plant, then pays the harvest. and then collect on crop insurance. I've been farming a long time an missed that one. Maybe he's talking about the beginning farmer program? It cost me 275.000 just to plant, I wish I could have got some help on that alone! On 3000+ acres I got 48.250 a year for set-side which is not all profit by no means. My reason for more acres is to diversify was so if I didn't make it on one crop, maybe anothere would be a good producer or price.Everyone has a different situation as for as wants and needs! responses welcome!
Ron
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Myrl (PA)

10-22-2005 15:06:00




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 Re: Ag Phd in reply to Animal, 10-07-2005 09:29:17  
As a small farmer of around 200 acres leased land I for one wish the goverment would stop a lot of the so called subsidies. I know of bigger farmers here who where handed down land then enrolled it into gov setaside program only to rent land then gov again pays them to plant that land and dang if they dont get paid by gov to harvest it. I even have a cousin that had his entire expensis paid by subsidies to plant his 10 acres of corn only to have insurance then pay him cuz it didnt do well. I for one WILL NOT participatein any of these programs

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jc

10-22-2005 18:41:19




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 Re: Ag Phd in reply to Myrl (PA), 10-22-2005 15:06:00  
You for one will not realize a profit by not farming the programs.



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Myrl (PA)

10-23-2005 03:00:59




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 Re: Ag Phd in reply to jc, 10-22-2005 18:41:19  
with the drought this year i broke even but most years i do realize a profit without 'farming the programs'



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seth_ia

10-07-2005 20:38:15




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 Re: Ag Phd in reply to Animal, 10-07-2005 09:29:17  
In my area 1500 acres is about the minimum size to farm full time and make a good living. Not a corporate mega farm. Increasing machinery size can increase effiency if the tractor is not being fully utilized. We did that this spring with the feild cultivator. Where able to add 8 ft when trading up. In my area alot of farmers have their own semi's to haul grain. Just about anyone who has storage ships grain somewhere besides the local elevator. No reason to get screwed locally if you don't have to be.

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Rich Iowa

10-07-2005 18:30:47




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 Re: Ag Phd in reply to Animal, 10-07-2005 09:29:17  
I try to catch their show when ever I can. Being a young guy without a lot of farm experience, I try to learn as much as I can. I have noticed they make no metion of cultivating row crops to help with weed control. They talk about weeds developing resistance to herbicides, have you ever heard of weeds developing resistance to cold hard steel? Now, I know the large corprate farms with 1500+ acres can"t cultivate every acre, but with the new guidance systems, auto-steers, high-speed cultivators, they could cultivate a portion of the land. Throw spray equipment on the cult. and they could do both jobs in one fuel saving pass. Enough from me, just my views. Rich

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paul

10-07-2005 12:59:43




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 Re: Ag Phd in reply to Animal, 10-07-2005 09:29:17  
The Hefty fellows are very sharp on the technical side of things, lot of niffty trials & thoughts they have.

Obviously, they want to sell their products, so some of the purchasing advise may be a tiny bit skewed. ;) They have a store 10 miles from me, pretty well run place, very competitive.

They are pushing zone tillage these days, depending on your soil type & needs it looks interesting. Like you, I'm not big enough to get into it, but can still learn from the process they go through. Maybe in 10 years the machinery will show up cheaper on the used market. :)

--->Paul

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Kelly Campbell

10-07-2005 10:12:50




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 Re: Ag Phd in reply to Animal, 10-07-2005 09:29:17  
I agree with you whole heartly, though I'm not a crop producer, (just do Equine Rescue) the cost of fuel/bailing twine etc. has really had an impact this year on our pocket book. My wife last night was talking to a man regarding adopting a horse and he asked why so much for the horse if the horse market has gone down so much, her response was that the price of feed/ fariers/ vet care and what every else you want to throw into the expense category has not. I agree with you, sometimes we try to put our eggs all in one basket! I've got to stop there!!!

Later,

Kelly C

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