The Official Farming Thread...

[exSW]

I Cut some hay last night it got dry bad here this summer. Hope I can get the hay to cure up enough to go through my baler It will probably be a little wet but the girls are eating more now. I'll just feed it up

I had that choice. I went with not knocking the *s-wordoutta my graze and hay with a late cut. I'm trying to get set for the future. I've had to deal with short on everything in the past. I got a chance to hit reset by working off the farm. I'm going to make the most of it.

 

[concretegrazer]

This low price stuff takes the fun right out of our "hobby"


It's been hard to justify this year


Trying to make money farming


Honestly, I'm just ready to be strictly a grazer. F the crops

Inputs and machinery are killers. Every time I hit the key on a tractor, I'm losing money.

Funny how inputs & machinery never go down. Branded feed prices are insane now compared to what you can mix at home.

My grandpa said it was best to be diversified. The industry says be the best in one area. I think the old man was on to something.

 

[concretegrazer]

I Cut some hay last night it got dry bad here this summer. Hope I can get the hay to cure up enough to go through my baler It will probably be a little wet but the girls are eating more now. I'll just feed it up

Droughts just suck. Remember baling some in December. With cooler temps it should keep a bit longer.

 

[jakethesnake]

Horse choker gettin there with the corn hundred ish acres left soys are all but ready one good frost they'll all be ready got over a thousand acres of those nasty boys to go after

 

[Mastermind]

Some sold in western Carolina a few weeks ago for .68 Ross. Feeders. Damn.

 

[jakethesnake]

That's ragged anyone noticed if beef prices at say walmart have went down any ?

 

[exSW]

Some sold in western Carolina a few weeks ago for .68 Ross. Feeders. Damn.

Yes, they were worse here a couple of weeks ago. I had planned on finishing these but just wasn't going to work. So take my loss now or later.

 

[Mastermind]

I'm going to the cattle sale in the morning. Planning on getting three or four head.

 

[czar800]

It's worse when it's not a hobby

I'm sure it is!

 

[skidooguy]

Diversity is what keeps the farm I'm at going but even then it's tough trying to make it on a year like this. We are gonna loose our ass on sugar beets I'm afraid. We run about a thousand head cow calf operation as well so it's not looking good for us there either. Hopefully our seed alfalfa can keep us afloat.

 

[skidooguy]

There's our two six row 22" diggers and our tractor with a pull bar for towing trucks through the mud.

 

[skidooguy]

And there is my defoliator it's a 12 row rigid frame.

 

[exSW]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10157462131785562

 

[Magnumitis]

The small herd that runs with the horses on this side of the road.

And the ugly bunch across the road where I've yet to mow.

 

[DSS]

So hawt right now

 

[Magnumitis]

And the good looking crew up the creek a ways.

 

[jakethesnake]

Good lookin bunch handsome bull

 

[Magnumitis]

Good lookin bunch handsome bull

Thanky. He's a Beef Master

 

[jakethesnake]

Thanky. He's a Beef Master

Is he gentle?

 

[Magnumitis]

Is he gentle?

Yes sir. He was handled well for a few years, probably has the most to do with it.