The Official Farming Thread...

[Mastermind]

Dammit Jake.

 

[Only the Tony]

I don't even want to think what this is costing me per pound. Registered angus with good EPD's and doesn't want to bust though a fence or panels.

 

[Only the Tony]

Somebody made it home tonight. Only took a picture of its ear tag for reference since I had some cow sorting and loading to do. Kicked him in with the cows and he settled down easy. Sire is MOGCK Entice.

 

[jakethesnake]

Handsome fella

 

[ajschainsaws]

Had this for a few days putting out stakes 6500

 

[ajschainsaws]

Can you all remember back in the winter I cut off a hedge well we've gone there to put some wire up and he had a swing shovel in too tidy the hedge bottom and he's trashed the hedge completely

 

[ajschainsaws]

Some nice cattle enjoying the summer

 

[ajschainsaws]

Love too see a nice field of straw

 

[Steve]

Love too see a nice field of straw

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Didn't think you guys did round bales over there. Thought you were a large square kind of people?

 

[karrl]

Got my burlap hula skirt on and I’m ready to pick. First sweet corn of the year for us.

 

[Only the Tony]

Got to get a sort done and put the ones going to butcher in this pen for a bit of grain. Just trying to get a little grass going since everything is brown except for the weeds. Young things think they need to stand in the sprinkler.

 

[ajschainsaws]

Didn't think you guys did round bales over there. Thought you were a large square kind of people?

down in our area Steve it’s about 70% rounds still being baled
the bigger units and horse farms like big squares
And a good market for small bales

 

[jakethesnake]

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Got my burlap hula skirt on and I’m ready to pick. First sweet corn of the year for us.

Find any corn? What you doin wearing that skirt? I mean it’s cool if that’s your thing but I figure there’s likely a purpose

 

[karrl]

I got 22 bags(4 1/2 dozen ears per bag) and my brother got another 17, other than light blackbird damage it’s good pickins. We do anywhere from 20 to a 100 bags plus depending on the day, retail and wholesale. This is a bi-color early supersweet variety called kickoff and it’s pretty darn good.

The burlap hula skirt is what you get when you stuff your belt full of burlap potato sacks, I can usually get 12-15 on there. If you pack extra on you can keep the front of your pants and your giblets dry… well maybe once in a while. It’s a losing battle, I’ve tried rain pants and I just end up sweating through em.

We have an oxbo cp 100 picker but I like to handpick until the block is 80-90% ready. I’ll post some pictures in the next couple days when we get that going.

 

[farminkarman]

Had my neighbor come roll up some bales yesterday. Ended up getting 53 4x5’s off of my 16 acres. I figure that isn’t too bad for 2nd crop with no fertilizer. The old loader worked well for moving bales.

 

[JimBear]

@farminkarman
That was a pretty good haul for 2nd cutting with no fertilizer. What type of grass is it ? The 2nd cutting around here wasn’t anything spectacular, there won’t be a 2nd cutting for some folks. Well some will mow it but it may make 1/2 bale/acre. Most folks that usually get 3 cuttings won’t be seeing that 3rd one materialize.

 

[farminkarman]

@farminkarman
That was a pretty good haul for 2nd cutting with no fertilizer. What type of grass is it ? The 2nd cutting around here wasn’t anything spectacular, there won’t be a 2nd cutting for some folks. Well some will mow it but it may make 1/2 bale/acre. Most folks that usually get 3 cuttings won’t be seeing that 3rd one materialize.

My hay is probably 60/40 alfalfa & grass. I like to use a mix of Fescue, Timothy, and Orchard grass. Part of the reason the crop was on the heavy side is that I was about two weeks late on cutting it. Now I will only be able to get 3 crops instead of 4. The Orchard grass is nuts…I cut last Sunday and the Orchard is already about 10” tall.

 

[hoskvarna]

@farminkarman
That was a pretty good haul for 2nd cutting with no fertilizer. What type of grass is it ? The 2nd cutting around here wasn’t anything spectacular, there won’t be a 2nd cutting for some folks. Well some will mow it but it may make 1/2 bale/acre. Most folks that usually get 3 cuttings won’t be seeing that 3rd one materialize.

We’ll be lucky to get much of a second cutting [emoji2959]


Sent from Hoskey Hills

 

[JimBear]

We’ll be lucky to get much of a second cutting [emoji2959]


Sent from Hoskey Hills

The circus clowns are barking about rain for the next 7 days hopefully something materializes. At least they are barking about lower temps also.

 

[hoskvarna]

The circus clowns are barking about rain for the next 7 days hopefully something materializes. At least they are barking about lower temps also.

Ya we’ll see if there bark is worse than the bit. Lol


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