The Official Farming Thread...

[jblnut]

1st load of many hailed home with the new running gears under the old hay trailers. They sway waaaaaaaaaaaay less than the other ones did !!

 

[Bill G]

............................Looks like we already spent some of the extra bean money Brand new 2026 Grand Design Imagine 2470BH. I went to the dealer looking for a new awning fabric for our 25yr old camper. I guess I found a new awning. Gonna have to tell the tax guy it’s an office so I can put it on the depreciation schedule lol.
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I thought your wife just remodeled the old one?

Helped Mama Bear tear out the vinyl and carpet flooring in the camper to put different vinyl and carpet in.
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She’s on a mission to make a perfectly good camper “better” and I decided not to ask any questions. She doesn’t look around the shop and ask why I needed the sprayer or the forklift or any other things up here so I keep it zipped about the crap she wants to do.
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[Bill G]

I like the way you think. Mobile Office trailer.

Put tool box and a empty fuel can in it and it is a tool and fuel trailer.

I am betting a good tax person can get it as a qualified expense on income taxes but I am also betting the Minnesota Department of Revenue are not not going to consider it farm tax exempt on a sales tax basis.

 

[Bill G]

There is no doubt I look for some real oddball items but hell I am a real oddball......many folk call me worse. I have spent a lifetime of buying old junk at farm auctions cause "I might use that someday". Probably close to 25 years ago I bought a mineral tub full of 8 inch bin fans/tube fans. They spent the next couple decades in the same mineral tub, buried in the barn, untouched. Last summer I had a hairbrained idea for a use for a couple of them so I dug them out and not a damn one worked. I lubed the tiny little shafts but still nothing. I called the original company that made them many years ago and they had no information. I called other bin fan manufactures and of course totally struck out. I fully understand there is zero demand today for a 8 inch inline tube fan but I do not give up easily. There is a very well respected electric motor repair shop northwest of me in Tipton Iowa that does the vast majority of farm fan work. I phoned them and explained what I had. He said he was very skeptical he could help me but to bring one up. It was cheaper to just UPS him one instead of time and fuel. He got it the next day and called to tell me there was nothing he could do. I told him to put it in the scrap bin.

Now that brings me to my question......has anyone seen any of these around for sale? I believe there are still a few places that have the tube aerators but I would prefer a 8 inch inline fan.

 

[jblnut]

I thought your wife just remodeled the old one?

Yup. New awning, redone roof, new tires, new flooring, interior painted, different curtains and a bunch of other crap.

Mama gets what Mama wants. We can afford to do it so I guess we did it. Had to finance it to get an additional $3000 off otherwise pay the $3000. Seemed dumb so I asked how much I could put down and how many payments I need to make before I can pay it off. I put down 75% and can pay it off after 5 payments. The first payment will be around 15% of the remaining balance and the next four will be 2.5% each. The sales buy was baffled why I’d want to pay it off so quickly and I told him I wanted the $3k discount but didn’t want to finance so I’d play the game. Ended up costing around $250 to finance it so I’m $2750 in the black. Perfect.

We started looking at $22,500 campers and they are built with toothpicks and tape it seemed so we asked to see the nicest one with the floor plan we liked. Never heard of a Brinkley before but wow are they fancy. And at $68,000 a little outside what I wanted to spend lol. We looked at this one next and it was just as well built but $25k less. It doesn’t have some of the bonkers stuff like an app you can control everything with from your phone or comes with a matching set of camping chairs that said “Brinkley” on the back. Not deal breakers lol.

Fanciest darn thing I’ve had here in a long time !!

 

[jblnut]

Into the corn finally !!


Purple speckles in this stuff

 

[JimBear]

Into the corn finally !!
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Purple speckles in this stuff
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Looks like enogen corn with the marker kernels.

 

[jblnut]

Looks like enogen corn with the marker kernels.

Yup. Around 400a of Enogen planted this year. Mostly for my feedlot but I’m raising some for a few neighbors.

The sales guy up here calls it the “Enogen Value Tracker”.

 

[JimBear]

Yup. Around 400a of Enogen planted this year. Mostly for my feedlot but I’m raising some for a few neighbors.

The sales guy up here calls it the “Enogen Value Tracker”.

As far as I know they don’t sell that around here anymore. None of the ethanol plants will take it. I am not sure that any of the elevators will either.

 

[jblnut]

As far as I know they don’t sell that around here anymore. None of the ethanol plants will take it. I am not sure that any of the elevators will either.

It is very much sold where you are. The product has transitioned from “Enogen Energy” to “Enogen Feed”. Ethanol plants up here still purchase it but in limited quantities so no one really grows it for ethanol anymore.

We have a half dozen feed mills within 15 miles that will purchase it as regular #2 yellow for normal price. We raise it for feed ant not really with the intent of running it to a sale point. I see a .15lb increase in daily gain on the steers while feeding it.

Full disclosure…. I’m a Golden Harvest dealer lol. Last year we were the top Enogen selling dealer in MN and 99% of it was sold to feedlots and dairies. The varieties being released now are part of the “Enogen Feed” program and are geared for both grain quality and whole plant digestability and are true dual purpose hybrids. We had some 112 day stuff average North of 35 ton/acre on a few different farms with an estimated 288bu/a grain in it. That’s insane for this area !! We’re excited for what it does in the gut of a ruminant and our customers are seeing positive things. Help the customer make money and they’ll help you make money. It’s been a great product line for us so far.

 

[JimBear]

It is very much sold where you are. The product has transitioned from “Enogen Energy” to “Enogen Feed”. Ethanol plants up here still purchase it but in limited quantities so no one really grows it for ethanol anymore.

We have a half dozen feed mills within 15 miles that will purchase it as regular #2 yellow for normal price. We raise it for feed ant not really with the intent of running it to a sale point. I see a .15lb increase in daily gain on the steers while feeding it.

Full disclosure…. I’m a Golden Harvest dealer lol. Last year we were the top Enogen selling dealer in MN and 99% of it was sold to feedlots and dairies. The varieties being released now are part of the “Enogen Feed” program and are geared for both grain quality and whole plant digestability and are true dual purpose hybrids. We had some 112 day stuff average North of 35 ton/acre on a few different farms with an estimated 288bu/a grain in it. That’s insane for this area !! We’re excited for what it does in the gut of a ruminant and our customers are seeing positive things. Help the customer make money and they’ll help you make money. It’s been a great product line for us so far.

I knew that you sold GH.

My buddy sells GH as well but I didn’t hear him talking about enogen this year. I will ask him about it next time I see him.

Maybe some of the feeders around we here plant some.

 

[legdelimber]

Always appreciate you folks putting up the images and some info as to what I'm looking at.
Helps me to remember (and sometimes just understand a bit better) what gets done to have bags of groceries in my house.
Amazing how quickly some of the tech and procedures have changed.
Still gives me a pause to realize that my Mom actually sometimes picked cotton when she was a kid.
The Family pulled her out of school to work in the field, as a teenager.
She was always quite determined that my Sister make it through college and get a decent, office sort of, job.

Sis did it

 

[Bill G]

Always appreciate you folks putting up the images and some info as to what I'm looking at.
Helps me to remember (and sometimes just understand a bit better) what gets done to have bags of groceries in my house.
Amazing how quickly some of the tech and procedures have changed.
Still gives me a pause to realize that my Mom actually sometimes picked cotton when she was a kid.
The Family pulled her out of school to work in the field, as a teenager.
She was always quite determined that my Sister make it through college and get a decent, office sort of, job.

Sis did it

I still have my last ear picker in the shed and my Grandpa's first mechanical ear picker over the hill.

 

[legdelimber]

The images of the corn and its marker kernels caught my attention. One of the TV channels that show rodeos, was running some farming shows a while back.
Stuff about ground temp and various seed characteristics and just a few days difference in plant/crop maturity. Coatings and so on. Didn't know that Talc is used as a seed lube until I saw a few programs.
Seen many videos of mired down equipment, But didn't really connect all of the underground drains and getting inside of the planting window, as being so closely linked.