Is farmings easy???

my neighbor pulled up next to the fence to chat, I shut the allis down and the first thing he said was. "I never new farming was so easy!!". He has no livestock and only plants about 20 rows of corn. he has a 50+hp kubota tractor loader backoe and owns aprox 2 acres. heck I HAND planted more corn than that just for the deer. If farming was easy everybody would do it!!

while fixen the cattle fence, the same fella asked me if them metal "T" post would hold in a cow, my response. "nope, damn cows just walk around them post!" Wink

Sometimes all I can do is shake my head and walk away!

It's seems we are always working on something on our "farm", So am I doing something wrong and farming really is easy??

Edited by dt1050 - 20 Mar 2017 at 6:56am

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For me, the hard part is balancing the budget and trying to keep my head above water financially. The rest of it, .......well some of it is "easy, some of it is hard work. Usually entails much more than 40 hour weeks, but I love doing it, so maybe it is easy. Darrel

ksbowman wrote:

And the pay is great to, sometime .25 to .50 an hour on the top side! Course sometimes you loose money too! I had a calf and a #1000 pound steer die this went and the steer was due to feed out starting next month.

that's hard on the budget. lucky to get .50 an hour and heck putten post in the ground, stretching barb wire is fun and easy, no danger at all!!! Shocked

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Dan73 wrote:

Yup it is easy and highly profitable that is why everyone does it.

Tell the neighbor he is right and that he should run out and start his own farm.

And tell him to start with all brand new equipment, because he'll pay it all off after the first harvest.

CrestonM wrote:

Dan73 wrote:

Yup it is easy and highly profitable that is why everyone does it.

Tell the neighbor he is right and that he should run out and start his own farm.

And tell him to start with all brand new equipment, because he'll pay it all off after the first harvest.

Well ofcourse he needs all new that is how he will avoid those expensive brake downs. LMAO

It is easy as long as you don't expect to make money from it.

1957 WD45 dad's first AC

1968 one-seventy

1956 F40 Ferguson

I forgot about the wonderful benefit package ya get..health care, retirement. lol

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"Anybody can be a millionaire farming, just start with two million" . . .

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I can speak for all the chicken farmers. It's a HOT job. I'm in charge of around 75,000 chickens for 6 weeks at a time. I go through EVERY day and pick up dead birds and look for problems (breakdowns, water leaks, heaters not heating, fans not running, yet to anticipate what's going to happen tomorrow) and I'm "on call" 24/7 listening for the alarm to go off if it's too hot/cold, low water pressure, fan doesn't come on, etc.

To give an example of the mortality, I will be selling a flock tomorrow. I started the flock 38 days ago with 75,000 chicks. I will be selling in the neighborhood of 66,000 chickens tomorrow (tomorrow starts at about 6am and ends about 7am Wednesday morning

). If you average 9000 lost over 39 days you come up with roughly 230 per day. That's not good. That's about twice what we were getting and nobody has any answers why. Even the vets at UGA and Auburn don't know. When we sell we expect to average about 5.25 lbs. We get paid roughly $0.068 per pound before they subtract feed. With the extra 4500 birds lost that's about $1600 off the top. If you bring this up to the people you grow for they say "well theta a certain amount of risk involved in livestock. Sorry about your luck".

Sure farming is easy. I just don't know who it's easy for. One thing I can guarantee, it's a job you will LOVE or LEAVE. Any farmer that doesn't want to farm only farms because he hasn't been able to sell it yet.

It is good for one thing though. I've lost about 16 lbs since I started last June.

Edited by thendrix - 20 Mar 2017 at 6:44pm

"Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan

dt1050 wrote:

follow a baler through the fields and throw hay all day, see how easy it is..lol

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"Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan

My father told me a joke years ago. It was about an old farmer who just won the lottery. People asked him what he was going to do now? He said, " I'm just going to keep farming as long as the money last".

Of course we all would love to win the lottery. I would like to win it so I could buy enough land and equipment to farm full time so I wouldn't have to work at another job. Farming isn't for everyone, especially the small farmer ( like me). The thing I hear about farming is get big or get out. There's very little profit in it. Everything so expensive, fuel, fertilize, chemicals, and not to mention equipment. The list goes on. As the world continues to shrink, more and more people are going to become hungry. Is there going to be enough farmers to feed them?

I miss the days when you could make a good living on 160 acres and not be in big debt....

CrestonM wrote:

I miss the days when you could make a good living on 160 acres and not be in big debt....

How could you be old enough to miss those days?

My grandfather made a living off 40 acres. Pretty big chicken laying house, hand full of milk cows, few turkeys and pigs. Grew his own hay and alfalfa. Never was rich but always made a living.

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