How many acres?

Question for you all out of curiosity; how many acres do you farm and what type of crops? Do you have your own equipment to do it all or do you hire some of it done?

165 acres total...about 45 row cropped and and 20 acres of hay.   in my 3 bottom fields (about 39 acres) I run a 3 year rotation of 1)  Corn 2) Beans 3) Winter soft red wheat/double crop beans).  So each bottom has a different crop each year to mitigate risk and that rotation has a crop of beans between nitrogen using crops. 

Lone 6 acre hilltop gets a 2 year rotation of 1) Beans 2) Soft red winter wheat.  This year it has wheat and if bean prices stay up I may try to put double crop beans up there again.  If we don't get decent rain in July/August though double crop beans are a bust where the creek bottom fields can stand dry weather much better.

See my response to the other post on crop prices for other details as I don't want to repost all of that here.

http://www.allischalmers.com/new/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24329&title=good-times-grain-prices

Mike

So far, 450 acres organically, growing spelt, red clover, soys, oats and soon to be winter canola.  All with AC equipment, where possible.

i forget but i think its 850 had 1000 but my pa sold some of it cause he logged it and then decided he didnt want it p&ss me off bout that but cant change the past no mater how much u try but anyway we farm bout 300 and rest is in timber and mountains here in TN

We have all of our own equipment but we bale other people's hay fields. We do my uncle's which is about 40 acres and we do a buffalo farm (we bale inside the pen with the buffalo. Talk about exciting sometimes.....) which is about 10 acres. Last year I think we ended up with 1700 bales. We just do it for a hobby and we used to do everything with a non-throwing baler which took a lot of manpower but dad just upgraded to a thrower baler so we only have to have half as many people now. 

Just shy of 200, wish we had a few more but with rent prices on the way up, we cant run the land if there isn't money to be made.

Dang, I must be a BTO. Own 134 acres and rent another 20. 100 acres tillable. I do all of my own except the combine work. My partner does that and I do all of the spraying for both of us on 600 acres.

400 acres total, only about 220 farmland, the rest is pasture and water from high levels of 1997, all rented out now as of 2010. Did have a 1000 cultivated at one time but went to work in town instead.

I grow a 20x40ft garden.I do work harvest for a couple smalllocal farms. ones about 1800 acres the othe is around 3000. Farms aroud here are all in  1 mile sections.

Around 250 acres. Roughly 70 corn, 30-40 beans,15-20 hay rest pasture and woods, and 30 cows. Do it all except hay.

own 253 acres, just put 81 acres in CRP, and rented out 101 acres, i'm farming the rest. this fat man is gittin older, and if i have another year like last year, i'll rent out the rest and hopefully tinker with all my equipment! it's all paid for, maybe will sell the big stuff!

I don't farm. I've seen in the last 30 years a change in my customers that is almost unbelievable.  I manage a medium sized retail agronomy branch and have customers  which range from 1 acre of garden to 5000 acres of corn and soybeans.  85% of my total sales comes from  15% of my customers or my 15% largest customers make up 85% of my business.  I really feel that with in 5 years that will be a 10% make up 90% of my business.  Since I have 200 customers  30 of them make up that 85% and 10 of them make up 93% of  business. The big just keep getting bigger and its the same with equipment dealers and in my business of Agronomy retailers.  Don't like it but have to deal with it. 

I've got ONE acre, 2/3 's is wife's veggie garden, my 1/3 has shop and equipment.

Two acres with a 60'x200' garden. Have 23 tractors, all but 4 AC. Still don't have enough as I still have to mow grass. LOL

KevinON wrote: So far, 450 acres organically, growing spelt, red clover, soys, oats and soon to be winter canola.  All with AC equipment, where possible.