How many acres?
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Topic: How many acres?
Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Subject: How many acres?
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 5:16pm
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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? ------------- '49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2 |
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Posted By: John WV
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 5:36pm
| only farm 22 arces. At one time it was 500 arces but all the rented farms are growing houses now. Have all mine own equitment. Grow rye field corn sweet corn potatoes. I even built my own pto driven potato digger last year and work great. planted 600 lbs and dug all of them up in about 1 hour. |
Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 5:38pm
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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 - http://www.allischalmers.com/new/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24329&title=good-times-grain-prices Mike ------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
Posted By: bakwoodsfarm
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 5:49pm
| 145 acres, all hay land with a 3 year rotation to soybeans. I own all equipment. 65% of land is in orchard grass, 20% in fescue, and 15% in soybeans every year. Rent all but 15 acres that I own. |
Posted By: KevinON
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 5:54pm
| So far, 450 acres organically, growing spelt, red clover, soys, oats and soon to be winter canola. All with AC equipment, where possible. |
Posted By: MNLonnie
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 6:18pm
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40 acres of blow sand and jack pines, nothing would grow but sand burrs, doesn't even grow grass good enough to keep the deer and goat pens covered. ------------- Waukesha B, B, IB, G, styled WF, D15, 615 backhoe, 2-Oliver OC3's, 4 Ford Model T's, 3 Model A Fords, AV8 Coupe, AV8 Roadster, 1933 Ford Wrecker |
Posted By: acd21man
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 6:26pm
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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 ------------- 2 wd 45,2 D-17 diesel/gas 3 pt, 220,d21, 4020,2 4430s used daily http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCudh8Xz9_rZHhUC3YNozupw |
Posted By: wi50
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 6:27pm
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about 1700 of our own corn, soybeans, alfalfa, wheat, and green beans for a canning company. Wonderfull rolling hills of Wisconsin, land of 4 acre triangle fields, though we do have some decent sized 80 acre ones.
I cover a couple thousand acres of hay with my custom bailing and wrapping (silage bales for the dairy farms). This year I wrapped about 25,000 bales and made 8200 round bales, and about 10,000 big square bales. When haying season is over I help my dad with his custom combining for 3000 or so acres. I do a little tillage work also.
Keeps a couple of us busy and my hired help. We do our own work, spraying, tillage, everything down to the trucking and drying. Winter is spent in the shop or on vaccation. I used to work a full time job, and there were dairy cows here but I didn't have the hay bailing business at the time and we didn't farm quite as many acres, I finally just ran out of time to go to work.
I'll have to admit, a few old allis tractors for colletcing, but the real work is all done with a fleet of John Deere, my only AGCO products are a Hesston square baler and a Sunflower chisel plow. ------------- "see what happens when you have no practical experience doing something...... you end up playing with calculators and looking stupid on the internet" |
Posted By: Reeseholler
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 6:32pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Sandknob
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 6:38pm
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30 acres right now, but looking to pick up another 7 maybe beore spring and also possibly next year may pick up 55 more. I have my own equipment as well, but work a full time side job to bring in the real money (at least for now).
Adam
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Posted By: powertech84
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 7:04pm
| 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. |
Posted By: victoryallis
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 7:07pm
| My uncle and I are at 1000 plus with our own iron most of the time a rent a little bit of iron out. |
Posted By: John (C-IL)
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 7:44pm
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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. |
Posted By: Billoh
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 7:54pm
| I farm 150 acres,half corn & half beans.I plant & combine with 2 Gleaner Ks.The rest I hire done. |
Posted By: jiminnd
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 8:14pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Brian(Va)
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 8:40pm
| Farming just over 3300 acres, of which about 200 is rented. Purbred beef cattle, market around 300 bulls for breeding in two annual sales (Dec and April) here on the farm. We raise corn for silage and also chop most of our small grains for silage. Hay, barley, oats, wheat and clover of seed round out our crops. All tractors are AC,Agco, Duetz, Duetz-Allis, with only one JD. |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 9:20pm
| 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. |
Posted By: 1946WP
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 9:22pm
| we own about 110 acres . about 20-25 acres tillable , the rest is pasture & woods. farm another neighbors aprox 10 acres. Just raise hay & beef cattle & less of that each year. |
Posted By: Andrew(southernIL)
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 9:49pm
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Around 250 acres. Roughly 70 corn, 30-40 beans,15-20 hay rest pasture and woods, and 30 cows. Do it all except hay. ------------- If fishing is a sport your looking at an athlete |
Posted By: Jamie (KY)
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2011 at 10:43pm
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Ok... so I'm the "little guy." We only have 3.4 acres. My mom and dad live on one side of the property and I live on the other side. I originally got my D14 to pull a finish mower to keep all 3.4 acres mowed but after restoring it, I started to see some wear on stuff after a couple of years. It is now only used at shows unless I need the driveway graded or something.
We now mow with a JD ZTR mower. ------------- Just when I thought I was finishing my "honey-do-list", she turned the page!!! |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 2:42am
| 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! |
Posted By: TexasAllis
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 6:55am
| I have about 20 acres of tillable land of my own and access to another 100 acres. So far grass hay and wheat hay are all I have tried. With the crazy weather, mostly the heat and potential lack of rain we have in Texas it is a crap shoot on any crops other than some type of hay. |
Posted By: D17JIM
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 7:11am
| 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. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 7:23am
| 5 acres mostly woods with 2 acres mowed and a garden. Don't laugh it takes 10 tractors to keep up this operation and I'm trying to convince the wife we need more. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 8:01am
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I've got ONE acre, 2/3 's is wife's veggie garden, my 1/3 has shop and equipment.
2 D-14s and my 'new' Gleaner as well as 7 riding lawn and garden tractors.
So do I 'win' for having the most toys on the least amount of land ? ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Ben (MI)
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 8:02am
| 100 acres of no-till soybean and corn rotation ground, all rented. |
Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 9:07am
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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 ------------- When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!! |
Posted By: Luke R.
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 10:03am
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Ive got 11 acres. 8 acres is farmable and i am growing Aronia berries organically on the 8 acres. Although i have enough equipment to farm 1000 acres. LOL ------------- 4-7030's,170G,220FWA,3-220's,210,D21II,D21I industrial,2-200's,3-190's,175D,2-D19D's,D19G,WD45,WD,CA,2-UCont.,5015FWA,917,B110,Gleaner F |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 10:31am
Kevin, What does it take to get started organically? How do you get certified? I have a 10 acre hayfield that hasn't had any fertilizer or any kind of pesticides on it for 3 or 4 years. I don't want to go to meeting where I have to pay to attend and then find out that the organic angle isn't for me. Thanks ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
KevinON wrote:Posted By: Daehler
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 11:22am
| own 900 acres, about 570 is row crop, 30 is alfalfa, 100 is pasture, 190 is timber and about 10 is sheds, garden, cattle lots and yard. always farmed with orange equipment and always will be |
Posted By: MilesGray (CO/KS)
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 11:39am
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have 19 acres that I'm trying to clear of Locust, I guess right now I would have to say I'm a lumberjack! LOL The land used to be hayed but right now there isn't enough room for my Hay guy to turn his equipment around. last time he hayed he got 3 round bales out of it... ------------- Miles Gray (CO/KS) 5 1938 B's, 1940 B, 1944 WF C, 1948 NF C, Gleaner A, White Top Rotobaler, 1957 IH Golden Jubilee... I'm either a collector, or crazy! |
Posted By: ACFarmer
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 11:50am
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My wife and I own 200 acres. Of which about 170-175 is tillable and we went another 42 acres. Have my own combine and planter and own a 210 and 7080. Me my parents and grandparents farm about 800 total. ------------- Making a living farming with and working on Allis Equipment |
Posted By: FredinInd
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 12:21pm
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own 96 acs, 58 tillable the rest is big timber I let a chosen few hunt on. I cash rent the 58. I used to pull a 35' res-til with a 305 magnum IH in front of the planter. Got a new 2011 335 this year. I work during planting and harvest season for the farmer I rent my ground to. They farm 4300 acrs of corn and soybeans. ------------- Oh well, I won't do that again! |
Posted By: singingpig
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 10:10pm
Does your wife use the Gleaner to harvest her garden? lol I've got 20 acres. I grow fresh veg....truck farming. I also added pastured pigs last Feb and am working them into the rotation. I keep 18 acres in vege. With the addition of the pigs the only thing not farmed is the inside of the house, shop and garage. Everything else including the front yard gets farmed, much to the chagrin of some of my neighbors. |
Posted By: Dave in il
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 10:22pm
| 450 acres of corn & soybeans, down from 950 after a couple landlords passed away, hope to rent some more but the big guys get most of the land that comes up for rent before anyone else hears about it. |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2011 at 10:29pm
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133 acres...my brother in South Dakota farms 120 of them for me....We grow veggies on the ones here and sell direct to the public. My wife quit her corporate job last fall, so we is livin off'n the land nowa days..... ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: Byron WC in SW Wi
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 7:12am
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Eldon and Pig and doing it right IMO. We have 102 acres with about 60 tillable and 10 of that in grass strips/waterways that we plant to high sugar rye grass. The remainder is beans, corn and sometimes canola/cover crops. Just paid off our house and the 40 acres it sits on. Hopefully will get the other 62 paid off in the next year or so and then we can think about more land. |
Posted By: David (in Mi.)
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 8:05am
| Son and I farm about 1300 acres of Corn, Soys, Wheat, and Sugar Beets. Keeps us busy, own all equipment, 4 semi's and trailiers, and everything else that goes with it. 200 to 300 acres of each crop, rotate all of them all of the time. Most all fields are half mile long 80 acre pieces, flat as a board , and nice and striaght. Started all of this on my own at 16 yrs. old and took a life time to get here, am 62 now. Finially getting to the end for me, out of dedt and loving that. Run all green paint and have saved some of my dads orginal A C stuff, which brings back the old days with memories. Farmers around here are getting bigger, and land is getting higher. Most stuff, if avialble, is going for $4500. / acre or more. I'am getting to old to go into much dedt, and my son is already in dedt buying more for himself. Enjoy all your comments and keep it going. Thank's to you all. |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 8:20am
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Own 3/4 of the family centennial farm of 115 acres. Had more but Interstate 57 took out a bunch when it cut throught the middle of the farm back in the 60's. 92 tillable acres with the rest in timber and waste. I rent it to my buddy on a 50/50 crop-share lease. I also help him with his farming operation of +/- 3,000 acres. He has all JD green equipment (it is nice though). I still use my '52 CA and Woods belly mower around the old farmstead. The '53 WD-45 gets used for recreational tillage and a few shows once in a while.
Brian F(IL)
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Posted By: captaindana
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 8:27am
| We own around 200 acres and am guessing 150 tillable which are all currently hay fields except for a couple acres of sweet corn each year. Of the 150 in hay, my son and I will make the hay on 100 acres and will be spraying the other 50 for weeds as they have been multiplying the past few years due to neglect on the part of the guy that used to keep my farm in order while I am out flying. Last year we started haying ourselves again so yes I am burning the candle from both ends. When I retire I will farm full time again! I have all AC tractors. We just bought new or almost new New Holland haying equipment and built a new 60 X 60 hay barn. Everything is paid for in full! |
Posted By: Chuck(ONT)
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 8:50am
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Family owned 280 acres NE LWR MI for deer hunting and playing. Using an Allis C and a WD45 for food plots and clean up. Used a JDB since 1989 til Allis moved in. Mainly using a 4 gang pull type disc, several spike tooth harrows and a rotary spreader.
------------- Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway! 1C 1 WD45 1 AC180 |
Posted By: Leonard
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 9:30am
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Dad has 60 acres, 30 tillable. I will be starting to work it this spring and will be planting 20 acres of winter wheat in the fall, the following spring the rest in alfalfa. Dont have everything I need yet, I am still need a baler and combine but all equipment and land is paid for and Allis. Leonard |
Posted By: singingpig
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 9:34am
Congrats! |
Posted By: R.W
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 9:38am
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We own about 264 and farm about 630 (give or take 10) we rent the rest and we use all our own equipment. We grow corn, soybeans,and hay. ------------- In Search Of: 1958 Allis Chalmers D17 Diesel serial #9643D |
Posted By: SteveC(NS)
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 9:55am
| I own 6 acres mostly red oak forest, plenty to cut for firewood and the rest of the compound around the house keeps my B & CA from seizing up. Oh, yeah, the IB project is still "almost" done. |
Posted By: Byron WC in SW Wi
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2011 at 10:16am
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Thank you Pig. My mom and dad nor any of my siblings have ever owned their property in full. We moved too much as kids and they haven't prioritized it now. My house is nothing to shout at but it keeps the rain off our head and warm in the winter and it's mine. Pretty proud of that right now. BTW-I have AGCO, Vermeer and AC equipment now. Vermeer is a move away from AGCO and I will eventually get away from them completely. |