what a crock!

again...no money made on the farm last year. after the renter and taxes was paid, no money left over for the stockholders! the self appointed manager of the farm did find a little money to give to his kids.

So......are you saying money should have been made this year?  How many acres are we talking?  What's the rent / acre?  I'm just curious, you don't have to share if you don't want to.  I did not make money on my farm this year, and know what my costs are. . .

they did have to spray the fields 3 times to kill the volunteer corn, but only the fields that show from the road. the other fields only got 1 spray for weeds.

i'm thinking we are paying our share and their share, then just giving them 1/2 the crop! when I farmed 50/50, input costs sure wasn't anywhere near that amount, and the yields were real close to the same as they are now.

the renters turn in a bill at the end of the year, the manager of our farm won't let us see the bill, nor will he show us any bushel amounts that is harvested, nor will he show anything to us record wise. how I get the info on expences is I check the bank statements for the farm, it shows who and where our money goes. the crop year before, the manager let the renters put all of our soybean crop into the renters bins, I asked if he got a recipt that our beans were there? no he said. I told him that was stupid as what if they got killed or incapacitated and we wanted our beans? as far as their family knows...what's in those bins belong to them. he couldn't see it that way...went right over his head! arou8nd here most farmers input costs are right at $86 per acre. my input costs when I farmed here was$64-$84 and change. and still raised the same amount of bushels as ones that spent over $150 per acre. the crop prices are the same for all of us unless we do something special to the crop that will bring us a higher sale price. call it marketing. I love it when some of the farmers here take their loads of corn directly to Cargill and by pass the elevators. Cargill will pay them .05 cents more than the elevator price. a lot of the loads are about 450 bu. but when they get on the scale there, a sample is taken and then that load is charged $25. to have that sample tested for what ever they test for. of course if you bring a semi load in, you can get a little bit more than the straight truck loads. you have to have a 500 bu load just to break even. we both can go on and on, it basically comes down to "if it costs more, it will be better". that's the thoughts of the manager.

OK, I give up.  Not a rational conversation. 

Edited by Tbone95 - 31 Jan 2019 at 9:28am

shameless dude wrote: the renters turn in a bill at the end of the year, the manager of our farm won't let us see the bill, nor will he show us any bushel amounts that is harvested, nor will he show anything to us record wise. how I get the info on expences is I check the bank statements for the farm, it shows who and where our money goes. the crop year before, the manager let the renters put all of our soybean crop into the renters bins, I asked if he got a recipt that our beans were there? no he said. I told him that was stupid as what if they got killed or incapacitated and we wanted our beans? as far as their family knows...what's in those bins belong to them. he couldn't see it that way...went right over his head! arou8nd here most farmers input costs are right at $86 per acre. my input costs when I farmed here was$64-$84 and change. and still raised the same amount of bushels as ones that spent over $150 per acre. the crop prices are the same for all of us unless we do something special to the crop that will bring us a higher sale price. call it marketing. I love it when some of the farmers here take their loads of corn directly to Cargill and by pass the elevators. Cargill will pay them .05 cents more than the elevator price. a lot of the loads are about 450 bu. but when they get on the scale there, a sample is taken and then that load is charged $25. to have that sample tested for what ever they test for. of course if you bring a semi load in, you can get a little bit more than the straight truck loads. you have to have a 500 bu load just to break even. we both can go on and on, it basically comes down to "if it costs more, it will be better". that's the thoughts of the manager.

Me and the manager would have a come to Jesus meeting, one way or the other. You might fix it where I can't farm it, but the guy doing it is going to be legit! Tracy

cancel what I just said, I had a brain fart. my seed bag plants about 3.5 acres each, 4 acres on the light ground. but the cost is about $143. a bag

shameless dude wrote: cancel what I just said, I had a brain fart. my seed bag plants about 3.5 acres each, 4 acres on the light ground. but the cost is about $143. a bag

Of soybeans?!  Only 40,000???  Holy crap!  What yields do you get on that?

You're hard to follow, sorry....

Soybeans, county average is I think 30 or so, based on what I learned when we first started raising them.  My personal best was 72, only ONCE!  Typical for me on decent ground average year is 40-45.

Edited by Tbone95 - 31 Jan 2019 at 12:17pm

I don't remember the name of that stuff either...it's pretty pricey. and our local elevators dock BIG time if there is any corn in the beans!

they kept spraying as the corn kept growing, the corn that should have gone into the combine bin instead of out the back of the combine.

Shameless your forgetting they are using JD equipment so more grain goes back to the ground and less in the truck which equals less to the bin or for market.

I've sold off a lot of my manure spreaders. had them stationed all over for other people to fill, they were glad to get rid of it and I was happy to take it, all kinds of manure, grass clippings, leaves, sawdust, straw, and a few other things. when I couldn't spread it in the fields (while crops growing or it rained) I could stock pile it until I could spread it. I was just getting sum nasty no grow ground to start producing when they took over. after checking that area this fall, it's mostly back to non production again. this worked very well. just had to spend a little more time doing it, and didn't have to worry about compaction when the ground was froze. you do have some to help if your cows are confined in a small area.