The Official Farming Thread...

[Steve]

It won’t make any difference those over grown rodents will destroy whatever you plant. Around here the raccoons are damned near as bad or worse in the cornfields.

One night a gang of coons ate my entire garden of corn. 4 50ft rows. I was pissed! Put a 9 ft fence around it last year to keep the deer out. Going to electrify it this year too to keep the other stuff out now.

 

[jakethesnake]

Neighbors beans next to my sorghum

 

[JimBear]

View attachment 354368 View attachment 354369 Neighbors beans next to my sorghum

Those look like some big yielders…
They don’t even look like it’worth the time or diesel to run them.

 

[jakethesnake]

Those look like some big yielders…
They don’t even look like it’worth the time or diesel to run them.

Deer destroyed them. I’ve learned this year if you’re gonna plant sorghum in the bad spots of a field you may as well plant that whole farm. It just concentrates the brown bastards onto the beans

 

[jakethesnake]

Ours next to the sorghum looked that way.


So is it sorghum or milo

 

[czar800]

This is the tire we used for a few days… we stayed close to home. I’m thinking it might haul a few more loads of manure!

 

[czar800]

nice hopper bottom

Thanks, It’s my dads truck and trailer. It’s a old but gets the job done.

 

[jakethesnake]

Thanks, It’s my dads truck and trailer. It’s a old but gets the job done.

I always figured my trucks sit in the shed most of the year. I don’t need a fancy rig to haul my grain for a few months. I believe your hopper is in better shape than mine. As long as the brakes are good and she’ll haul grain that all I worry about

 

[JimBear]

I always figured my trucks sit in the shed most of the year. I don’t need a fancy rig to haul my grain for a few months. I believe your hopper is in better shape than mine. As long as the brakes are good and she’ll haul grain that all I worry about

The traps needs to function well also, my brother bought a Jet steel trailer & said the traps worked well… maybe empty but with 900 bu of corn on it not worth a chit. I was seeing stars after I finally got the back hopper to open up. It got parked.

Jet wanted $38 each for bearings , 14 bearings per trap.

Timpte roller bearings are $8 each…

 

[JimBear]

This is the tire we used for a few days… we stayed close to home. I’m thinking it might haul a few more loads of manure!

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That tire has a lot of life left in it, I have seen much worse still being toted around.

 

[JimBear]

Deer destroyed them. I’ve learned this year if you’re gonna plant sorghum in the bad spots of a field you may as well plant that whole farm. It just concentrates the brown bastards onto the beans

The deer just keep nibbling them back, they do that to the back side of my dads farm. If it’s corn they destroy it, beans they destroy it, alfalfa they eat it all

 

[jakethesnake]

The deer just keep nibbling them back, they do that to the back side of my dads farm. If it corn it’s they destroy it, beans they destroy it, alfalfa they eat it all

They’re pretty relentless creatures. We’ve got too many of them. They’re taking whole fields out. I’m to the point of shooting them like groundhogs. Hate to do it but you can’t make a living feeding deer that multiply like they do

 

[hoskvarna]

It won’t make any difference those over grown rodents will destroy whatever you plant. Around here the raccoons are damned near as bad or worse in the cornfields.

Yes they are [emoji2959]


Sent from the Hoskey Hill country

 

[BlackGreyhound]

Here's another product we get from the lambs we send to the butcher. Tanned hides with fleece are neat, and sell for good $, about as much as we get for the meat.

 

[jakethesnake]

He gave me a wing tilt on the way by He finally got a bunny I laughed at him for missing two They’re big birds up close

 

[jakethesnake]

Cause Merica

 

[Mastermind]

Good morning fellas.

Unrolling the hay is working good for this field.

 

[Lnk]

Good morning fellas.

Unrolling the hay is working good for this field.

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Is that to reseed, or add organic matter? Do the cows trample it in? Just curious the reason for it, I am intrigued.

 

[JimBear]

Is that to reseed, or add organic matter? Do the cows trample it in? Just curious the reason for it, I am intrigued.

We unroll bales to give the cows/calves something to lay on when it’s muddy or snow on the ground. It also keeps the cows from creating a mud hole while standing around a bale eating.

@Mastermind may have his own method or reasons.

 

[Lnk]

Ishere

We unroll bales to give the cows/calves something to lay on when it’s muddy or snow on the ground. It also keeps the cows from creating a mud hole while standing around a bale eating.

@Mastermind may have his own method or reasons.

Is there a bale unroller, or do you just roll it down the hill so it unrolls itself? I have too many round bales from last year, and would like to do something positive with them. This unrolling thing might just be the ticket.