The Official Farming Thread...

[JimBear]

View attachment 362811 View attachment 362812 Getting a good solid base in here

You need a power sweep… Those uprights are a PIA in my experience. My brother rents two bins with them, water gets around the bottom belt & it slips or snow melts & then the bottom pulley is in a frozen puddle & you have to use an axe to chop it all out then barely feed it until things dry out.

 

[Seachaser]

Same here on the veggies, we do tomatoes, beans, peas, strawberries, muscadines, Concordes, raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, potatoes, squash and peppers. Did try onions last year, wasn't impressed. Waiting on chestnuts and pecans, trees are a few years from bearing. We also grow sunflowers for the doves, and hay for the goats. I may have missed something. Hard to remember everything. Have a little bit of anarchy here.

How many pecan trees do you have? This year the prices were terrible.

 

[Lnk]

How many pecan trees do you have? This year the prices were terrible.

I only have 5, I am not marketing them, I love pecan pie. I "farm" for fun, and only have 21 acres. Just trying to stay young as I get older.

 

[Seachaser]

Just trying to stay young as I get older.

Same here. We have 75 old trees and 85 young ones. They are lots of work. Picked up over 4000 pounds this fall. Picked up over 100# of left overs Thursday.

 

[Lnk]

Same here. We have 75 old trees and 85 young ones. They are lots of work. Picked up over 4000 pounds this fall. Picked up over 100# of left overs Thursday.

What do you get a pound? Just curious how rich I am going to be! Lol

 

[Lnk]

Same here. We have 75 old trees and 85 young ones. They are lots of work. Picked up over 4000 pounds this fall. Picked up over 100# of left overs Thursday.

That is a lot of trees, I really just wanted to plant some trees, may never get to sit under them. Someone will if I don't. I experiment and plant things that may or may not take. Just having fun. I have a few dunston chestnuts too. A year or two out on those beginning to fruit. Will see. Wife really likes the mulberries and the raspberries.

 

[jakethesnake]

Back at it fellas. Handsome sumbitch ain’t I lol

 

[Steve]

View attachment 362927 Back at it fellas. Handsome sumbitch ain’t I lol

I'd let you in my Christmas photo Jake.

 

[Seachaser]

What do you get a pound? Just curious how rich I am going to be! Lol

This year about the best anyone got was a dollar to 1.25 per pound. It’s been down for about three years for various reasons. Have seen it about $3 per pound. Best way is to shell and sell. Get from $5 to $15 per pond depending on quality.

 

[Seachaser]

That is a lot of trees, I really just wanted to plant some trees, may never get to sit under them. Someone will if I don't. I experiment and plant things that may or may not take. Just having fun. I have a few dunston chestnuts too. A year or two out on those beginning to fruit. Will see. Wife really likes the mulberries and the raspberries.

I wish I had started younger. I’m trying to get everything set up for the kids and grandkids.

 

[Lnk]

This year about the best anyone got was a dollar to 1.25 per pound. It’s been down for about three years for various reasons. Have seen it about $3 per pound. Best way is to shell and sell. Get from $5 to $15 per pond depending on quality.

Wow, $1/lb. They sure ain't selling in the store for anywhere near that. Guess I am not as rich as I thought. Lol.

 

[Lnk]

I wish I had started younger. I’m trying to get everything set up for the kids and grandkids.

Same here, enjoying what we are doing, will never try to make a profit. We give away all our surplus. Coworkers supply me with empty egg cartons, and I give away the extra eggs. Same with veggies. Neem oil is the harshest thing we use here. We don't use gly-anything. We lose a lot to critters and bugs, so we just plant more so they can have some too.

We have a good free range rabbit crop right now. Lol

 

[Seachaser]

Wow, $1/lb. They sure ain't selling in the store for anywhere near that. Guess I am not as rich as I thought. Lol.

Huge difference is right. Somebody is making money but sure not the farmer. You can go on pecanreport.com and they update prices every few days. It gives what the big time farmers are getting. Minimum 20,000 pounds.

 

[jakethesnake]

I'd let you in my Christmas photo Jake.

Thank ya Steve

 

[ajschainsaws]

View attachment 362927 Back at it fellas. Handsome sumbitch ain’t I lol

pud it dis way
when iam out fencing I’ll make sure and keep the farming thread out of site so those
Farmers daughters don’t see this photo cos they’ll be migrating like a flock of
Un feathered birds cross the Atlantic

 

[jakethesnake]

pud it dis way
when iam out fencing I’ll make sure and keep the farming thread out of site so those
Farmers daughters don’t see this photo cos they’ll be migrating like a flock of
Un feathered birds cross the Atlantic

That’s what I’m getting at. Gotta keep a stick at the door to chase em back lol

 

[ajschainsaws]

Farmer got a tall metal gate post
He just made up this extension for the gate

 

[ajschainsaws]

Been doing barb wire last few days
a bit wet and sticky

 

[Steve]

Been doing barb wire last few days
a bit wet and sticky

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We got to do some barb wire this weekend I if it works out. I hope it passes your standards Andrew!

 

[jakethesnake]

We got to do some barb wire this weekend I if it works out. I hope it passes your standards Andrew!

I’ll never show him my work lol