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.