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Been here a long time and am used to the idea of compact operations, but was at a place today looking at a mower that gave a new meaning...

within a square of 30x50 meters is 3 households, about 8 tractors from 26 to 100 hp, assorted equipment/trailers, barn with 230 almost ripe beef feeders, another with about 150 hogs, and plenty of chickens and ducks to support plenty of meals and silos for the feed. Place was, for all the stuff there, was as neat as a doctor's office and the dominating smell was feed and corn silage. All in the middle of a small town.

always amazes me...

Dave
 
Not sure if they'll let me take pictures.... Freaks everywhere and for all they know, I could be from PETA or something. Not that they have anything to worry about, just a big hassle.
Within a couple hundred yards of our place is about 100 dairy cows and 200-300 hogs (sure hate foggy mornings.....).

Dave
 
Count me in. We have 10 acres here, we are now selling eggs, and I would like to add some other stuff here. It would be great to see some other small opps. Lots of farms around here, very few farmers. Some of these guys are 10K+ in acres.
 
Been on 8.6 acres, mostly standing mix of timber since 1992. Health and age, 82 tomorrow, advise us to move. In purchase process is .83 acres, house, 2 car garage and big barn/shop combination.

Not thrilled deciding to leave but circumstances sometimes rule. Now 18 miles from folks and Salem, Or, will be only 3/4 mile from folks and 6 miles to wife's work.

Have gobs of rural life stuff to get rid of and not move, including 4110 Ford LCG tractor I sure won't need on that postage stamp. Hope to clear out of here by end of March but not without a few tears and irrelevant regrets.

Aging ain't for sissies. End.

Polkwing
Oregon W of Salem
 
Love to see pictures.Have 2 open acres and would love to use it for ag,grow about 1.25 acres of hay on it now as it was a hay field , instead of 1 large lawn.

Vito
 
Hey Dave, Do you think I could start up farming on 1.2/10 acres?? What one man can do. another can do. That way I could Put (ugly) to work on another project HUH? LOU.
 
(quoted from post at 16:43:25 01/15/10) Hey Dave, Do you think I could start up farming on 1.2/10 acres?? What one man can do. another can do. That way I could Put (ugly) to work on another project HUH? LOU.
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I dunno if that thing would be able to move over any rough terrain without rattling apart :shock:
 
Must be tower silo's?
Otherwise I really can't figure how it would work... and even at that you'd not want any pictures. That's an animal density more than double what would be acceptable here...
To be quite honest, the barn for the cattle alone would be twice the size of the lot around here...

Rod
 

Trench for the corn silage and the grain is stored on the top floor. Not a lot of room but everything and every animal was clean, bright eyed, and healthy looking..
 
Must have been bigger than that or else not near as many animals?
I'm doing some rough figuering here... but just to cram that many animals into something the size of a milking parlour stall (which is tight), you'd need over 500 m2.... That's standing room only, can't move, can't lay down. Just stand there....
WOW.

Rod
 
If I go back for the mower, I'll check. Could be that I mixed the numbers up between beef and pork, but I'm sure that's what he told me . Wasn't a lot of play room, eat, sleep, eat, drink, and.....
 
It's always amazing, and refreshing, to me, to hear stories like that coming from other countries where agriculture, and farmers, are given the respect they deserve, instead of being treated like third class citizens, as they generally are in this country. And its amazing what those people in those countries accomplish on those small plots of land. And so what if it's right in the middle of town, folks just know that thats the way its always been, and probably always will be, if they want to eat. They still know their food doesn't just materialize in the local grocery store. What a great story!! :D

Now what have I done with 4/10 of an acre? On the place we were living on in 1983, there is a field adjacent to the yard, that measured 8.4 acres at the time. The top end of the field, right next to the yard, was very crooked. We cut that crooked end off the top end of that field, tied it into the yard, and built a new 54' X 82.5' Morton building. Made that field into a nice, square cornered, even 8 acres, and while that building has been a good investment, I know it sure hasn't generated the income that the .4 acres in the middle of that German village has. :wink:
 
Presumably there are considerably more acres for those tractors to work and grow the feed on outside the village...
 
(quoted from post at 12:01:56 01/16/10) Presumably there are considerably more acres for those tractors to work and grow the feed on outside the village...
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Oh yea! didn't mean to make it sound different. But, at least in this area, nothing like some/most of you folks are used to. Someone may own/rent several hundred acres, but not in one parcel. To get an idea, go to google maps and type in kutzberg, germany. From what you see, there are probably 10-15 farmers that occupy all the different patches (not necessarily adjoining but scattered all over. We have about about 12 acres scattered around town (on 11 different pastures) where you seen green dotted w/ trees (orchards). For that 10 acres, I deal with about 15 owners.

You'll notice that there are no houses scattered outside town also.

Dave
 
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