@Zyzz yeah no one ever complains about their work ethic. My boss said he'd hire them too, but they're too expensive.

I'm not sure what SAs ask for, but I get paid $13/hr + room and board.

Not sure what that's like state adjusted

Honestly it's pretty good for me. I don't pay for housing or food, and I'm a disabled vet so the military takes care of my medical. I could make a lot more money somewhere else but I can't emphasize enough how much I love my job.

Plus SD cost of living is pretty low so I'm actually doing ok financially.

huh, that sounds really good then

y'all best not be putting harmful chemicals in our food now 😤

one thing i really like about Europe is their food quality

no gmo, chemicals, pesticides, hormores, or any of that other nonsense

food is more expensive and portions of smaller but its better for you and i think that shows up in how much better looking the people are than your avg white american

would tend to agree, we're very unhealthy

Lol! I load the concentrated stuff into these sprayers without PPE so if I live you're probably safe. Honestly the harshest stuff we use is ammonia. Organic farmers need the same chemicals to produce their crops too. They just need to fertilize a lot more often because bird scat has less of what you need and a bunch of other stuff that you didn't want in the first place. I personally don't buy into a lot of the organic propaganda. I was a nuclear reactor operator in the navy and I like to think I have a pretty good understanding of chemistry. There might be some disadvantages to using modern herbicides but I am personally in the good outweighing the bad camp. Now if we could just stop using our scientific advances to feed worthless people everything would be perfect.

@Deleted User if I was going to boil down my opinion I would have to say that I basically bathe in synthetic crops and chemicals all day and if anything I've become infinitely more Chad since I started here. If you are concerned about your food don't be an urbanite and grow it yourself. There is no way in hell eating GMOs makes you more of a fag than someone who shops at Trader Joe's.

Lol, no yeah what goes into those crops is probably the least of our chemical worries anyways

Yeah. I don't even touch tap water. That s*** is making the frogs gay.

I've got well water and a decent purifying system in the basement

I drink bottled water more than I probably should though

if anything the rest comes from soap/shampoo additives and stuff

Everything is relative. If you are even sort of careful you'll probably live until your too old to care for yourself anyway. One of my biggest fears is becoming a burden on my family. But I guess that's just me being white.

tfw a burden on family still 😳

am a youngin though

@Deleted User how old are you?

Tide is 47

48 this August 😄

No but really, just turned 21 this may

Goyd damn son! Get out of thine father's house. To be fair though I wasn't independent until I was 19 which is a year later than I would have liked.

Yeahh I'll figure something out

are you in school?

I turned 21 this may, as well. About to move out.

with some ie guys

That's great @Rogue !

That's what IE should be all about. Helping each other however we can!

@Zyzz No I'm not, never was one for it.

trade or military then

@Deleted User https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-08/its-crazy-texas-roiled-unprecedented-labor-shortage-shale-industry-hires-just-about

get a CDL ^

👆 CDLs are gold. I just started learning how to drive truck and it's great. It's pretty easy and companies will pay a premium for guys they don't have to worry about drug testing. Regardless you need to figure something out. I hate to be tough love but IE is no place for NEETs.

No no, by all means bully me.

@Deleted User youre young dude take a chance and head out west to one of those boom towns and get a job

Ok then first step is to tell you to stop being such a cuckold an stop asking to be bullied you pathetic nerd! Seriously just move out of your parent's house. IE won't let you starve but struggling a bit is good for you.

Hahah you're right

IE WON'T LET YOU STARVE

Hahaha a little struggle builds character

@John O - wheat field update. We got one!

NICE

@Der Seeteufel - SD use the rock catcher!

Get a net!

CORN!

It's looking pretty good boys. My boss seems pretty happy. He says he might even be able to keep paying me.

lots of rain out there?

Yeah it has been pretty good so far. It's too wet to get the tractors out in the field today to start planting sunflowers so we're going around checking the other fields.

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@Deleted User what do you think her father will think about these? I was thinking of sending a dairy cow but apparently they breed Rodeo Bulls out here.

I mean, if he's anything like me, he'd disown her if she *didn't* marry you.

That bull in the top on is looker on the left

Second one in from the left

Yeah it was definitely mean mugging us.

yeah they all look pretty stern

We're also checking out some more bins. I definitely prefer the stairs over the ladder. Luckily these bins are pretty small.

There were a couple of baby birds on the steps.

Do you get time and a half, it is it just straight pay?

Straight up pay. I also don't have paid time off, but I actually kind of prefer it that way because my boss is much more willing to let me go for a couple of days than they were at the factory I worked at before. They don't even track my time off. If I want to go camping or something I just let them know and I take off.

I don't do this job because I make a lot of money. With my work experience from the Navy I could probably pretty easily pull 6 figures working at a nuclear power plant. I do this because I love the freedom, being close to my family, and eventually I'd like to farm for myself. Honestly I'm kind of treating this experience as a school I don't have to pay for.

Absolutely, I was just curious

Yeah. I love my job and I think other IE guys would probably like this sort of work too, but I'm worried that some idealistic young identitaraian might get it into their head that this is easy and they can make good money doing it. That's definitely not the case. If they're looking for the experience than I'd say definitely do it but they should have a plan to build on that experience.

Farming is only good money if you own the land, and then, most of your net worth is in land and heavy equipment. My cousin's father in law is worth a few million dollars, but almost none of that is liquid

At least in NY

Yeah we call it being asset rich and cash poor. It also takes a lot of self discipline. Lots of farmers gamble it all away. My dad said it takes 3 generations for a farm to get rich and the 4th usually loses it all.

Fortunately, he's 7th gen or something

And my cousin is pretty level headed

@Der Seeteufel - SD "Honestly I'm kind of treating this experience as a school I don't have to pay for." Smart! Getting someone else to pay you to learn a new skill is a valuable skill in itself, something I'm trying to learn myself.

Filling up the sunflower planters. Hopefully we can get started tomorrow.

That looks like an insane amount

How much are you planting?

Hahaha that's nothing. We're planting 5000 acres. We have three of these planters and I'll be running seeds all day if the fields are dry.

Once I get back up to the shop I'll post another picture. That will blow your mind.

How many sunflowers will grow out of that?

About 90% of these seeds will grow. Corn is about 96-97%

If you want a count of how many plants that amounts to I have no idea.

My boss might have a rough guess, but an acre is the size of a football field so needless to say it's hard to count how many flowers are on 5000 football fields.

My boss says about 18500 plants per acre.

@Jacob

We plant about 1.2 million wheat seeds per acre.

We do about 5000 acres of wheat too.

I figured that I'd repost the bins for scale.

Also all of the smaller bins on the left are seed bins.

Except for one. One is a pidgeon bin because it was left open one year when it was almost empty and no one wants to clean it out.

Haven't made it back to the shop yet. Still prepping for tomorrow.

(My boss is aware that his license plate is visible) If antifa wants to call him he'll just ask if you're Jewish.

Waist high by the 4th of July!

@Jacob These totes are all full of seed.

And these are all of the ones we've used so far.

Also apparently someone loaded the seed truck. Which was nice of them.