I see my dog made it into the picture again. She loves being useful. I left her at the shop all day today. Maybe she learned how to drive a forklift.😂

Chevy to the rescue again.

It's a close fit.

Found another girl out in the wheat fields.

I've changed my profile picture so I don't get confused with @BryceB-ND

You can't really read it in the thumbnail but I picked this truck for a reason.

Haha

@Der Seeteufel - SD How many Mexicans does it take to unstuck a skid steer?

The true answer is, without White Europeans, machinery does not exist.

👆 This

Hehe

Fret not for the mouse, he enters the home without invitation because he cannot build his own.

Done planting. Time to get ready for harvest.

Whats the temp out there?

Today it's 66°

What?!? Lucky!

Yeah, lucky. It's like 95 here, high humidity. It feels like FL without a breeze haha

Tobacco is growing really well this year, so for the farmers that's a plus😁

Yeah it's been cloudy and raining off and on for the last few days. The lot by the bins is pretty muddy.

What camera do you use for all these great pictures?

@Tanner - SC I have a Samsung Galaxy S9+

Do you think we have enough filters?

How does the diesel or whatever fuel get to you to fill all those machines?

@Tanner - SC We use diesel for practically everything, ag-diesel for all of our tractors and combines. The fuel comes in on trucks mostly. Some of it might move by train up from the Gulf coast. There are distribution centers just like for normal gasoline and diesel. We actually get most of our fuel from the local gas station. The tanks we have on the farm are filled by the same tankers that deliver to the gas stations. Once it's here we have our own fuel trucks that we use to bring it to tractors and combines out in the field.

If you scroll back up to Jun 11 you can actually see me filling one of our sprayers.

This wrench isn't big enough.

This forklift is even more terrifying to drive than the other one.

That ole puppy makes his way into 25% of your pics

He has the heart of a show pony.

She follows me everywhere so it's not a surprise.

At least one girl likes me. I scared the last one all the way back to Australia.

Damn, dude, didn't go well?

@John O - it went ok. She still is writing me every day but she was definitely home sick and not ready to move to a new country where she doesn't have any family. I'm just going to keep writing her and maybe go to Australia during the winter to see her.

Bro, that's awesome. Is she a small town girl?

Home schooled farm girl.

She's very conservative, literally never worn pants.

😏

That's very cool, man, I hope it works out

No wonder she couldn't handle a week away from home, tbh

She's was here 3 months. She was just in Wisconsin and I didn't know that she was here. My pastor actually introduced us. I'm amazed no one else tried to date her. I was apparently the only guy to show any interest in her.

The only real reason she had to go back is because her tourist visa was about to expire and if she wanted to stay we would have had to get married.

It's very trad to marry a girl after meeting a week prior

Yeah the whole thing is super trad. In case anyone is reading this and is wondering what we're talking about there's a girl who is a member of my church and her family is the only family in Australia that has fellowship with us. So her father sent her and her sister to find husbands in America.

>and her sister

Bruh what church

Her sister is apparently already dating someone. Which is fine by me because I got the cuter younger one.

Loading sunflowers.

I was about to say “hop on Farmers Only or Christian Mingle, you can easily find a girl from the next town over” but,

>She's very conservative, literally never worn pants.

Ooh, that gave me a tingle. Love me some ladies in dresses, way too rare these days. So feminine and wholesome.

But still, you can find ones near you that will have a much higher return on investment.

I have a date Sunday with a girl on eHarmony whose profile pic is in a dress and is an open conservative. Multiple women on Christian Mingle say in their profile that they’re homeschooled and greatest goal is to be a good mother.

Edit: just read the rest and ... wow. Keep us informed.

@Tanner - SC it's kind of a unique situation. I love her and honestly I'd marry her in a heartbeat, but she is only 19 and not ready to move away from home yet. My church is also super conservative German Lutheran and ever since I have become more involved in the church the more important finding a wife who shares my religious beliefs has become. Even during IEs conference I would probably have called myself borderline agnostic but I prayed for a wife and the next day my pastor sent me an email. Honestly I don't know if there's any coming back from this point.

>Maybe go to Australia during the winter

I would go earlier. Go meet her family, win them over. You’ll learn more about her. They might help encourage her into your arms, they might decide to move to America to facilitate their 2 daughters’ relationships. But 6 months without her is too long.

Sounds like a great situation.

Crawling around inside a combine.

Pulled all this junk out.

Finally got to drive this thing further than from one end of the field to the other. It rides a little rougher over the road but kicking it up to 20mph is pretty fun.

Moved a couple of other big ol girls this morning.

I really want to get a line up of all our big tractors, but they are never all in the same place at once.

Each one of these tractors costs more than my house and we have 3 more 9380s and a few other old tractors that aren't really in use anymore.

This is a 9380.

talk about mechanized farming

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/farmers-are-killing-themselves-in-staggering-numbers/ar-AAzbcCN?ocid=spartanntp

Keep your heads up boys.

I'm ok. I can see why this is a problem though. It probably isn't the incomes though it's addiction mostly to alcohol and gambling. Farmers tend to be risk takers and that often puts them into positions where they can lose everything in a very short amount of time. Lots of farmers who would have been just fine otherwise lose everything to gambling. I've known people who have lost tens of thousands of dollars on video lottery. I can't even go into an Indian Casino anymore. It makes me sick.

Not to mention the financing it takes to get your implements.

Yeah but all that stuff is manageable. Banks are actually surprisingly willing to work with you (at least out here) my dad works in finance and he's said that he's never seen a farmer go broke that didn't have some other issue. Honestly the problem might be that there is too much "big money" in farming. My grandfather raised 6 sons and a daughter on a barely subsistence income and he was apparently one of the happiest guys in the world.

We're delivering some feed corn to a stock yard. This will be my first highway trip in a semi.

I'll be driving this behemoth.

Loading trucks is pretty boring so I'm just talking a bunch of pictures.

🚜

Since this server is ment to be informative I thought I show you how we know how much weight we have on the truck. This gauge measures the pressure on the air bag suspension. We're shooting for 80psi

The pup doesn't have air bags so we just look through the windows and guess.

@Der Seeteufel - SD so you all don't have any animal crops out there?

We don't do livestock on the farm I work on but there are 4.32 cows for every person in South Dakota. There are cows everywhere. This corn is going to a stock yard to feed cattle before they go to market.

That's cool. Glad you're feeding my beef, haha😁

When I was 18 I worked on the kill floor at Purnell's sausage. That was a different experience. Totally different than hunting. The Purnell's were are neighbors when I was a kid.

Do you all grow just corn, wheat and sunflowers?

Mostly. Sometimes we grow millet and a little bit of the dreaded soy.

Is that based on demand?

Yeah and weather patterns and crop rotation. It's actually pretty complicated how they decide what to plant.

We even use infrared satellite images to detect crop density and draft fertilizer profiles. We planted one field half sunflower and half peas last year and planted it all spring wheat this year. We used the satellite pictures to see we needed more fertilizer on the sunflower side of the field. We would have known that anyway but accurate fertilizer application can save us a lot of money over 1600 acres.

Make sure you wear a mask around the soy. 👗

Wow, that's crazy. Farming got real high tech. I'm so used to living my life like it's 1918, I've lost track of how far we've come😁 😂

@Asatru Artist - MD

I even wear a mask around corn.

Mostly for dust though. Its really bad inside the bins.

I actually took this selfie for a girl I'm texting, but I have a doxx proof job so I'm not that worried about posting selfies.

Dr. Andrew, S.D. 😷

Hail storm came through last night. Wiped out as much as 18,000 acres. My boss is not in a good mood today. I'm going to try and get some pictures later I think we probably won't work most of the day today.