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God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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Campfire 'Bwana
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We are going to put a 1000 into grass the next few years.
Might not make big money with cattle....but you lose money at a slower rate than with wheat. Cuzzin', you know as soon as we do it there will be $10 wheat... But yeah, nice section or two of grass flowin' in the breeze with little or no yearly input costs..... I'm not obsessed with money so whatever, break even on cows and hope the wife doesn't lose her job.........grin #no bills, no worry cool
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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Campfire 'Bwana
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You know it's just an idea(dream), probably make more leasing it out to a farmer and let them play the game.
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Campfire Ranger
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Grain farmers here have a corn-wheat-soybean rotation that they use. Corn planted in the spring, harvested in the fall, followed by wheat planted as soon as the corn is shelled, then after the wheat is cut in June, soybeans are planted. Three crops in two years. Even when grain prices are down, they still stick by that rotation. The only exception is on land that is too wet for wheat, then it's a corn-soybean rotation.
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Grain farmers here have a corn-wheat-soybean rotation that they use. Corn planted in the spring, harvested in the fall, followed by wheat planted as soon as the corn is shelled, then after the wheat is cut in June, soybeans are planted. Three crops in two years. Even when grain prices are down, they still stick by that rotation. The only exception is on land that is too wet for wheat, then it's a corn-soybean rotation. Around here they do the same thing, except they bail the wheat stubble and sell straw to contracted highway departments and commercial landscapers. Kinda like having four crops in two seasons. For the longest time they let the combine spreaders scatter the straw, now it is worth almost what the wheat is when small square bailed. Straw goes for $5 a bail retail around here. About what alfalfa did a few years ago. Second crop soybeans generally have a lot less yield than early crop beans, but works out with the extra crops associated with it. Just a hell of a lot of diesel fuel planting, spraying , combining, bailing, picking up straw used with that much crop rotation.
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More free stuff. More votes. More socialism. Welcome to the "Conservative World"
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my boys are working part time on a buddies farm to make some side cash. they all went in together and bought an old tractor and found an old rake and bailer for free that they were able to fix. they did 600+ bales of hay the other day and will get $3/bail for it. going to take a couple harvests to pay for the tractor but they are already talking about something else. corn, etc. i love seeing them do that kind of stuff. work 10 hours at construction and then bail and stack hay until midnight. pretty rare thing for young men around here to do.
My diploma is a DD214
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Campfire Ranger
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The linked article says that China is buying beans from South America.
Who did South America sell their soybeans too before China started buying them? It seems to me that that market would still be available to someone. China is the reason that South America cleared and planted beans in the first place. Caused by Carters embargo's. I don't figure that if they could find all that they wanted without us, we would never sell them any. During Carters embargo, all of the grain was sold, just the prices were lower. We sold to Canada and others, and they in return sold to the ones Carter would not sell to. They still got our product at the same price, just middlemen made the profit that the American farmer lost out on. miles
Look out for number 1, don't step in number 2.
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Could someone show me actually figures on the high rate of cancer deaths from roundup. Over a 20 year period I sprayed thousands of gallons. Please give me an idea on how soon I’m gonna die from it. Also please advise on how they are gonna steal my land so I can head it off. Ed k
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my boys are working part time on a buddies farm to make some side cash. they all went in together and bought an old tractor and found an old rake and bailer for free that they were able to fix. they did 600+ bales of hay the other day and will get $3/bail for it. going to take a couple harvests to pay for the tractor but they are already talking about something else. corn, etc. i love seeing them do that kind of stuff. work 10 hours at construction and then bail and stack hay until midnight. pretty rare thing for young men around here to do. Warm's my heart young men thinking that way. Learn how to thread that bailer and don't ever let it run out of string. Threading and working on knotters ain't fun to learn in a hayfield with rain coming and 95 degrees.
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Could someone show me actually figures on the high rate of cancer deaths from roundup. Over a 20 year period I sprayed thousands of gallons. Please give me an idea on how soon I’m gonna die from it. Also please advise on how they are gonna steal my land so I can head it off. Ed k Just a new Troll that has showed up Ed. As Travis would say, just move along. Sprayed bunch of it myself.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Just reading all this with interest, what would I know about soybeans, or glyphosate? I've only been raising beans since 1962.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Just reading all this with interest, what would I know about soybeans, or glyphosate? I've only been raising beans since 1962. They took your bean and corn fields yet wabi? Only a matter of time I hear.
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Campfire Kahuna
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More worried about the county taking it for taxes.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Campfire Sage
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Just reading all this with interest, what would I know about soybeans, or glyphosate? I've only been raising beans since 1962.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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More worried about the county taking it for taxes. Yeah, I understand. Can't cheat Death or the Taxman. Only thing a 16 hour a day farmer can't out work either.
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Campfire Kahuna
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In 68, or 69, I sold out the entire years crop for $1.90
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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The guy who owns the farm that adjoins my place has been alternating between soybeans and corn every year since I've been here. Corn was last year. He's planted beans this year. Ask him how much bail out money he got.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Campfire Kahuna
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I ran a four row cultivator, corn plow, on beans in 62. That fall the case PTO pull combine with canvas, kept plugging on goosenecks beans. My father put me on the combine with a broom to push the slugs in. I looked blacker than Al Jolson by night. no smilie icon.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Campfire Kahuna
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No explanation needed.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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