What kind of farm?

[rutwad]

Great topic. I would also suggest you add how many acres you are working

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[gengine]

Western Wyoming, 80 acres of Alfalfa. Case 930ck, Massey Ferguson 165, Mahindra 2615, Zetor 5211, and all the equipment for planting and baling

 

[grsthegreat]

Have 30 acres....i grow mostly horse shi*...hehe how come a horse can eat 20 pounds of food and poop 40 pounds of crap.???

 

[farmernate24]

We are farming between 5 and 600 acres in total spread out over 50 miles of two lane mountain roads. I call it truck farming and it's why we have so much equipment. I had a friend from the coast who is a big time farmer spend the day with me up here a couple of years ago. We rode and looked all day and when we finished I asked him what he thought. QUOTE. "Ya'll are crazy!" We have a niche and we fill it just fine!

 

[farmernate24]

This may be a little off topic... but:thumbsup:

Just getting started as a retired member of the military who wants to do more farming. I have 100 acres but most is not tillable (maybe 15 acres which is still in timber). Mostly now it is used for family deer and turkey hunting. I am trying to decide what I want to grow besides clover, turnips, winter wheat, sunflowers, etc. which is for the wildlife.

I've got an MX5100 with FEL, 6' rotary tiller, box blade and rotary cutter. Is there anything to grow for any kind of profit other than the above and brush piles for the wildlife in south central Virginia? I know that is the big question.

Thanks for your suggestions.

My first thought would be any vegetable or fruit crop that you can retail on location if possible. Create a family/farm environment and people will come. I have friends who make a GOOD living out of a road side farm market. Wave of the future!

 

[D7E]

1250 acres of ...(This year)....Soybeans,corn,Oats and Flax
250 acres of Alfalfa hay for market
Bush clearing and firewood

Versatile 895
Versatile 876
Steiger 210 Bearcat
Ford TW20
Ford 7600
MF 390 fwd Loader
JD 2030
MF165 loader
Fordson major diesel
Fordson major gas
Fordson major gas
Cat D7e
Case 580B backhoe
CaseIH 1688 combine
IH 1480 combine
Hesston 8110 swather

 

[steve08]

Great topic. I would also suggest you add how many acres you are working and if this is your primary income. I believe many of the CUT owners with fervor would like to know the realities.

I was raised in N. Illinois farm country. Corn and Soy Beans pretty much dominate the crops there. I know, I could never afford to invest in what it would take to farm full time there.

MarkV

Around here it's considerd very Rude to ask a man how many Acres he has or how many Cows he runs...

Same as askin how much Money ya got in the Bank...

 

[zythinl]

im not full time farmer myself but i help as much as i can with the family farm.
about 800 AC or more
Corn Wheat and Soybeans
as for equipment
JD 2320
JD 2630
JD 6400
JD 4440
JD 7330
CASE 4690 (2)
case 2366 combine
and about every attachment u can think of
we still moldboard plow all of our wheat ground
and yes im counting down the years to take over just gotta get the old man to retire lol itll never fully happen

 

[AKfish]

Around here it's considerd very Rude to ask a man how many Acres he has or how many Cows he runs...

Same as askin how much Money ya got in the Bank...

Yep.... that's the way it was when I was growin' up! Times change. People aren't nearly as sensitive about that stuff, nowadays.

Folk's are gonna be envious or jealous or resentful - OR NOT - no matter what you tell 'em.

30 acres. About 15 in timothy hay. Vegetables. Honey bees. (I make a little money from these enterprises.)

Horses, chickens, and a couple of pigs every other year or so. (No money in these.)

Still clearin' trees and cuttin' firewood -that I mostly give away.

JD 110 TLB, Ford 9N and soon JD 5065M. All the stuff you need for haying, etc.

AKfish

 

[simonds]

I never new it was rude to ask a farmer how many cows he milked until last summer. I was doing some carpenter work for a dairy farmer and I asked him three times how many cows he was milking and each time he replied " a barn full". I didn't get until now. Now I understand. He wouldn't think about asking me how much money I had in my savings account.