Message from @Der Seeteufel - SD
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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.
It's cold wet and miserable but the corn must come in.
41° F
Is there a danger of mold taking the corn in wet?
I know bailing hay wet is very dangerous.
The mosisture is 17.5% which is a little high but nothing the elevator can't handle. They'll run it through a dryer if it's too wet.
Mostly what we're worried about is what price they're giving us. You get docked for higher moisture.