How many farmers on OPE poll.

[exSW]

I am firmly and reluctantly in the rural lifestyle mode now. I quit busting my ass so some clueless clown could eat cheap years ago. Little beef,rotational grazing. Specialty crops if the spirit moves me. Pastured poultry on occasion. Show me the money and I'll raise it otherwise have a nice day.
B.S. Agricultural Business UT Martin '87

 

[leadfarmer]

Born and raised 4th generation dairy farmer. I'm not farming anymore since I got married etc. My dad is still working the farm but for how much longer idk. I go help him whenever I can. His health isn't great and he's trying to do everything by himself. Hes to stubborn to give in. He had a new dairy barn built a few years ago. We all told him he was nuts. He should of got out when he had the chance. Anyway I figure sometime in the near future he will finally give in and sell. That's gonna be a tough one for everyone. Here's a picture of the barn when it was under construction View attachment 11245

Is that a Patz barn cleaner in the ditch?

 

[Mastermind]

I am firmly and reluctantly in the rural lifestyle mode now. I quit busting my ass so some clueless clown could eat cheap years ago. Little beef,rotational grazing. Specialty crops if the spirit moves me. Pastured poultry on occasion. Show me the money and I'll raise it otherwise have a nice day.
B.S. Agricultural Business UT Martin '87

You've been kind enough to give me some very good advice too Ross.

 

[exSW]

You've been kind enough to give me some very good advice too Ross.

How do you think I learned.
A lot of people denigrate a college education over practical experience. I had quite a bit of experience when I got to college. One of the things that struck me was that professor just explained in ten minutes what it took me three seasons to figure out on my own.

 

[czar800]

Is that a Patz barn cleaner in the ditch?

It sure looks like a patz.

 

[Canadian farm boy]

It sure looks like a patz.

It's a patz. Good eyes on you guys

 

[Canadian farm boy]

Since everyone likes pictures I found a couple more of the old barn while it was under construction. The old barn had tie stalls for 48 milking. After the renos the new barn has tie stalls for 40 milking. Each stall got widened and lengthened. Seems the cows now are a lot bigger then they were 100yrs ago. Currently only milking about 30. All red and white & black and white pure bred and pedigreed Holsteins

 

[olympyk_999]

Part time farming....full time fapper.

fap while farming?

 

[leadfarmer]

It's a patz. Good eyes on you guys

I was a service tech for Patz equ for 15yrs, last 10 yrs full time bull *s-wordtter......I mean salesman [emoji2]

 

[czar800]

Born and raised 4th generation dairy farmer. I'm not farming anymore since I got married etc. My dad is still working the farm but for how much longer idk. I go help him whenever I can. His health isn't great and he's trying to do everything by himself. Hes to stubborn to give in. He had a new dairy barn built a few years ago. We all told him he was nuts. He should of got out when he had the chance. Anyway I figure sometime in the near future he will finally give in and sell. That's gonna be a tough one for everyone. Here's a picture of the barn when it was under construction View attachment 11245

We had two barns 76 stalls total both with patz cleaners. I don't know about that far north, but free stalls and parlors are mostly what the guys update into around me. We sold the dairy cows dairy cows in 1992, and started keeping heifers and beef. Now we just crop farm around 400 acres and keep around 70 cows. It's something how farming gets in your blood my kids are the fifth Generation on the farm.

 

[Canadian farm boy]

That patz stable cleaner has moved a lot chit that's for sure. When it's working properly its awesome. The slide moves about 30* left to right. I remember a few winters years ago the pile would get so big it would spill back over the pit wall and the slide would freeze in place. I had to stand on top the chit pile with a fork and move everything that came up the slide. It was hell. Extreme cold, windy and standing on top a 20ft tall pile of chit and trying to shovel as fast as I could. I was a teenager at the time. Don't laugh but I actually twisted a nut once doing this. That a whole other story.

 

[leadfarmer]

Never farmed but was around it my entire life. My grandfather started the business in 1944 got handed down to my Dad then to my brother he sold it 10 yrs ago and I stayed to be the Patz salesman. Pretty much parlors and free stalls any more , the big movers now are tmr mixers and ally scrappers. Sorry for bore in you guys.

 

[czar800]

Not boring at all!!!

 

[Genius]

Full time farmer here, I pretty much was since I was 10, except a 2 year stent in my early 20's doing concrete construction.

We are a small family farm, me dad and a few employees. We run a farrow to finish hog farm. Farrow 500 sows and raise the little ones till they are ready for bacon and pork chops. We also do a little over 2000 acres of corn and beans.

 

[skidooguy]

Been farming/ranching all my life. Worked in the oilfield for 8 years but still helped out friends with their farm and feedlot on days off. Went back to farming/ranching full time about 3 years ago.

 

[junkman]

fap while farming?

You don't have to be lonley
On opeonly dot com

 

[huskihl]

You don't have to be lonley
On opeonly dot com

Lol

 

[huskihl]

Not a farmer myself, but we always had pigs and some cows while I was younger. For the last 20 years, Dad raised 30-40 white faced herefords. And 4 hay burners. I'd help out in the winter while he was visiting down south.

 

[OldJack]

I'm retired now, but still do a bit of field work and combining for my renters and other neighbours. I spent some winters working in the oil patch. A couple of drilling jobs at Fort McMurray but mostly further north. You need a slot for the retirees.

 

[Mark71gtx]

I grew up on a farm in rural NC. We had black angus cows and some pigs. We grew tobacco, corn, soybeans, wheat, and oats. Once my grandparents passed it was split up between the siblings. Dad has 40+ acres of it. We rent part of it out and I mess around on the rest of it. I have no income from it, but I have all the garden space I want! I also grow gourds. My wife loves making art. She already went through all of the ones I grew this year and is working on a supplemental batch we got from a guy down the road.