My boss just said we're hiring 2 South Africans next year. I think I'm getting through to him.

Most farm hands in ND are SA as well.

Actually almost brought one to tears when I brought up SA conditions, he was in shock that I knew what was going on over there.

Glad more are getting up to the midwest. They fit right in

Sending out another load of confection sunflower seeds.

If you look closely you can almost see an antalope.

Pronghorn.

If you look closely you can almost see an antalope.

All I see if a red truck...

Dammmm nice kill.. you shot that thing right off the tractor?

Nah. This isn't even mine. I was scouting yesterday though and helped him find it.

I didn't draw tags this year.

Tan that hide!

Idk where this goes bc "farmer" is on a *spectrum* lol. But here's a couple of my sheep.

That definitely goes here. I'd really like to see more small scale farms in here.

😀

TFW there's goats. 🤗

First time driving a planter.

NICE!! @Der Seeteufel - SD

Why didn't I become a farmer? This is all so beautiful. 😩

@micbwilli hellishly difficult if you're not born into it. The start-up costs for land and equipment are astronomical

Now I'll never be happy....

I guess I'll have to enjoy these pictures and live vicariously though you guys.

It is much easier to buy a few acres and homestead. Vegetables and small livestock.

But a corn or wheat or cotton operation takes hundreds of thousands or more, at least in Oklahoma and Iowa.

I read that the smallest farm you can do is 5 acres if you want to feed yourself. I saw plans for one like this once that said how to divide the land up for small livestock and plants and such.

If I find those plans I'll post them.

I didn't like that the plans didn't include ponds for fish farming. Fish are a great feed converter. They can get feed convertion ratios over 1 if the pond have some natural sources to eat off like plants and plankton.

@micbwilli A little perspective on what it takes to run the farm I work on. That planter I was pulling costs about $250,000. That doesn't include the tractor.

The farm I work on has 4 air seeders (what I was pulling) and 3 row crop planters of roughly similar value.

To be fair I do work on a large scale farm even by South Dakota standards.