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allisbred 
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Joined: 28 Mar 2015
Location: Hanover Pa
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 Posted: 29 Oct 2020 at 8:05pm |
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I would say that you always have “skin in the game” when renting. This is my opinion since you asked. As a landlord, you want the land to be productive as possible, for multiple reasons; you want the tenant to be happy with his yields and make good profit(this is what makes your land desirable), nice crops do not get overlooked by others(demand for your land in the future), and if there is a nutrient management/crop insurance plan involved, low yields don’t seem to help around here. Now— if you don’t mind watching someone fail, take the check while it’s available.
Edited by allisbred - 29 Oct 2020 at 8:06pm
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PaulB
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Location: Rocky Ridge Md
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Posted: 29 Oct 2020 at 8:04pm |
Pride in doing a good job  That just isn't how things are done anymore, it's all about time/cost efficiency or at least someone's perception of it. Have you ever been to a plow day? Today there is nearly two generations of people that have not had to plow. When I was young, if the furrows were not straight and even, or one corn stalk was showing in a 40 acre field, I would hear about the terrible job I'd done on this or that field until next year. Same went for a raggedy job mowing a hayfield, nowadays I see those disc mowers leaving as much as they cut. Very few places even farm in the corners anymore, because it take too much time, it's just faster to make a huge wide turn at full throttle. So they continue the weed problem that can't be controlled. My grandfathers would be rolling in their grave if they saw what passes for farming in today's world.
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If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere.
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FREEDGUY
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Location: South West Mich
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Posted: 29 Oct 2020 at 7:59pm |
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so, silly me, I'm wondering if you (or someone) could go over the field again ? I know the farmer up the road is OK with us grabbing a few bags of taters the HUGE machinery didn't get !
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You're not silly, the weather window is closing too fast for me to get off of work to do just that  , dad can't climb the ladder anymore, and that's worse than seeing all of the beans left 
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FREEDGUY
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Posted: 29 Oct 2020 at 7:54pm |
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AC7060IL
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Location: central IL
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Posted: 29 Oct 2020 at 7:38pm |
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Actually 7+mph is doable with a 35’ draper header. But doable equates to ideal conditions - good upright standing soybeans, dry stems(less green stems), corresponding reel speeds, good solid roots to soil(little to no soft soils), good cutter bar sickle, and cooperative weather.
Unharvested/Pushed over plants are unacceptable. So you might ask custom operators if they were pushing speeds due to incoming weather??
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 29 Oct 2020 at 7:34pm |
so, silly me, I'm wondering if you (or someone) could go over the field again ? I know the farmer up the road is OK with us grabbing a few bags of taters the HUGE machinery didn't get !
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3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 29 Oct 2020 at 7:27pm |
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Do you get CASH RENT, or do you have SKIN IN THE GAME ?
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Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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FREEDGUY
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Posted: 29 Oct 2020 at 7:24pm |
Tonight was the first time I've been out to the farm since the tenant harvested the beans. I was appalled at the amount of standing/bent over bean stalks as far as-the-eye(mine) could see . I mentioned this to dad and he said they came in with a 35' JD draper head/9'ish series Green combine pushing 5-6 mph  . Perhaps that's the "norm" for losses as a renter, but DAMN, where's the pride of doing a good job, and do you guys just shrug your shoulders after glancing at your fields or just cash your check and not even look over the fence/lawn line ??
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. You must be a tenant or a BTO ?? Unlike DT, most of us have a sense of pride 