Message from @Der Seeteufel - SD
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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.
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.
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?