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Richard, that looks like a well kept operation!



Jim, interesting. Get a pic or two of the Morris, I'd like to see what the trip shank setup looks like.

A trip shank around here usually involves a knife....





Wages, the farmers around here have gone to a pea, bean or lentil crop(depending on the insurance.....) rotated with spring wheat every other year.

Yeah, for eons the Palouse had legumes cornered.......
til the Canookers, then Dakotas and Montana entered the fray.....
Sonobitches......:)

Soon we will be raising more pulse crops than Canada.


Canada went a little crazy and followed lentils with lentils and peas with peas.....for several years.


The disease got them.

JimBob,
They are doing that here with garbs, this year.
Only crop they make good money on, short term.
It will bite back sooner or later in oversupply and/or disease.
Short term play to try to keep the head above water.
Not good, long term.
Stay tuned.

Yeah, what the hell you going to do?

We diversified with some organic acres.

Might try some flax. Lentils just have not paid well. Neither did safflower.


No mustard contracts. Garbs are high, but no act of god contracts left.

Yellows and greens are pretty low right now.

Eat more hummus.....


Local pea seed company here did not plant 1 acre of peas in the Palouse last year....
I Shìt Thee not.
They processed other legumes and let contracts for them, but not peas.
For some of their growers it was their first year EVER of zero peas....
Interesting times.

We just finished planting over 2,000 acres of dry peas along with DNS.

No peas in the Palouse? Wow!

The guy who farms my Grandpa's old place at Surrey says he's dry for the winter but is going to try to get some wheat in this weekend. Hope it goes good for him not just in the short, but hopefully some wet is in the offing.

This might sound corny...But, I have a ton of respect and admiration for all of you who farm and ranch for yourselves and our country.

It’s without a doubt a very difficult occupation that most of us couldn’t be successful at...The talent, knowledge, and mechanical skills required just fixing things that break would overwhelm most people...Caring for the land and animals daily...Watching market prices. Costs for buying diesel, seed, chemicals, equipment and then more equipment, parts, tools, irrigation systems, bank loans and payments, etc, etc, etc, etc....Is mind boggling! You, all are amazing people!...Simply saying...if you do it for yourself and family, “Good On You”...If you do it for our country, then “Thank you”...Mark 😎

Great machines, those... The farm I work part-time for has five of 'em in various HP ranges; the biggest is a 7250.. And I'm sure they've already got the duals on 'em in preparation for serious field work.

Holy Cow, BlueMtnMan.
Gotta admire the optimism of the American Farmer.
Here's to hoping you have a great seed contract or something.
I have talked with a couple growers wondering if the price would rebound since there wasn't any.
Good luck.

Looking for another tractor here...

It never stops...

No flat tires Barry?

LOL!

Richard, I saw a more modern tractor in Mexico a few years back that had rear tires like that! They looked homemade, and the tractor was being used for shredding in some pretty bad brush down there.

No flats, for sure! I wouldn't wanna drive it much though. Might be a tad rough...

I remember signs along the blacktops that said "Vehicles with Lugs Prohibited".

Those are what they called, steel wheels. I used to see a few the years back. I never had the displeasure of driving one.

Grandpa was the first guy in Blaine County to try rubber tires.

I know that steel was an option for the H until after WWII.

My father trucked an F20 with steel wheels to a farm ten miles away.

Corn is knee high here!!