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R.W 
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 Topic: How many of you are farmers?
Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 2:26pm |
I know most all of you own AC's but how many of you farm for a living?
My dad farms full time and we grow corn, soybeans, and hay.
I sorta farm as in I grow fruit and vegitables in the summer to make money other than that I trap and help him bale.
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RSponenberg
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 2:35pm |
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I Run a small farm 108 acers,plant corn,soybeans,oats,wheat,and hay.
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Unit3
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 2:36pm |
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E7018
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 2:37pm |
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I am. I couldn't hold a job anywhere else.
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AFChap
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 2:42pm |
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I'm not but often wish I were. My grandfather farmed 1200 acres in Alabama and when he retired he leased it to the paper mill where they promptly planted it all in pine trees. Later when I asked him why he did this he said because he never wanted his children or granchildren to be farmers. He said it was getting too hard to make a living as a farmer. Oh well, one day when I retire from the Air Force I would still like to farm.
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John (C-IL)
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 2:45pm |
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Own it and farm it but I don't do it for a living. It's cheaper than going to a therapist!
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RSponenberg
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 2:54pm |
 E7018 wrote:
I am. I couldn't hold a job anywhere else. |
Your not alone,the only boss I can work with is myself!!! LOL..
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Anthony
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 3:07pm |
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part time.........rancher more than farmer
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AllisChalmers37
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 3:11pm |
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I am. We farm about 400 acres and use the majority of it for hay and pasture for our beef cattle. There's no way we could make a living doing it alone but it does make give me some spendin' money and is just FUN.
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Larry B
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 3:31pm |
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Ifarm about 800 acres, corn soybeans and small cow herd, also truck grain part time. Almost gave up a couple times but glad i stayed at it ,finally making some good money and i am my own boss besides the wife.
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Brian F(IL)
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 3:37pm |
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I don't farm but I work with farmers on a regular basis. My buddy operates my corn/soybean farm (50/50 crop-share rental) and I help him on nights and weekends do his farming. He's got about 2,500 acres so he's got some nice up-to-date stuff. My AC's are strictly for mowing and puttzing around (and the occasional local farm shows).
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Joe(OH)
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 3:45pm |
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I farm, but not enough for a living. Maybe someday.
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Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
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Eric[IL]
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 3:48pm |
Hobby farm of 40 acres. My other real job is also ag related. I have always enjoyed agriculture. AC tractors or gleaner combines have always been a part of it.
Did you know that the sun & moons' gravity will create a land water tide similar to that of the oceans? The moon especially, will tide the subsurface soil water-table up towards the field tiles which will begin running. The next day you see a full moon, go check out a previously dry tiled field to see if it is running water. I have noticed our dry field's tile to go from dry to running water as the world revolves on its axis. The moon only moves around 13 degrees a day, so sometime every 24 hours, you will have a high & low tide.
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FloydKS
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 4:00pm |
No farming here, I am a Catholic priest who happens to own a WD. We had Allis when I was a kid so it is all (or mostly) nostalgia...keep it at my 'day off' cabin where I mow a lot or 2 and have a SC blade to play with.
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MNLonnie
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 4:05pm |
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Not really, we have a 40 acre game farm with deer, peacocks, emus and fainting goats. Just another hobby to dump money into.
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Byron WC in SW Wi
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 4:13pm |
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Full time stay at home dad and part time farmer.
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Russ SCPA
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 4:34pm |
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Full time operation, corn, small grains, and hay.
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allisrutledge
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 4:39pm |
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Leaving my job to go feed the cows if I can find them in the mud.
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Allis Chalmers still exist in my mind and barns
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Dave in il
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 4:39pm |
I farm 450 acres and work off the farm, I work with neighbor at harvest and don't have a combine anymore. I used to farm 950 acres untill a couple landlords passed away.
I still have enough equipment to easily farm a 1000 acres or more. Conservation tillage = anhydrous and usually 1 pass with a field cultivator in the spring for corn and notill the soybeans.
Hope springs eternal that I can expand the farm some more and get back to being a full time farmer with a part time job instead of the other way around, lol, but competition for cash rented ground is pretty fierce around here.
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Calvin Schmidt
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 6:39pm |
I've been farming part time since I bought my first D-21 in 1975. Hooked up with two friends to share specialized edible bean equipment and farmed 1500 acres as partners for 20 years. Yes we are still good friends.
Grew about 600 acres of kidney, romano, otebo, and other edible beans with corn and wheat for rotation. Hobby farmer since 2004 with about 250 acres of corn, wheat, and adzuki beans. As John said farming is therapy. Cultivate 400 acres each spring with the D-21. Main living was a career as a concrete silo contractor with the past 16 years building only industrial dry bulk storage (mostly grain), municiple elevated water towers, chimneys, etc. etc. Just sold the business to the next generation.
Time for more fun!
Edited by Calvin Schmidt - 09 Mar 2011 at 6:41pm
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tcorbett
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 6:54pm |
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Part time farmer, 135 acres of therapy and 30 cow/calf pairs of stress. I own a video production company to pay the bills.
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ILGLEANER
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 7:07pm |
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Andrew(southernIL)
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 7:08pm |
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Both my uncle and I farm and work out. Corn, beans, hay, and cows we raise for us and tons of deer and some turkey we are forced to raise by the state. He works for county highway department and I'm an electrician.
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WD45
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 7:08pm |
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Help my sons cash crop corn, canola, soys and wheat on a few thousand acres.
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AaronH
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 7:17pm |
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I do. got 110 acres in SW WI. got corn, this year some soy beans and a small herd of beef cows. I love this time or year cuz we will be calving soon. Spring time and new life. Its pretty cool. Supports my AC hobby.
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DOlson
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 7:18pm |
We farm part time with a 7010 & a 6080 making hay crops for our herd of registered Morgan horses and full time excavation contractor. Our horse farm is not a hobby, it is a breeding farm with 10 mares and 2 stallions. Visit us at http://www.rafterbardmorgans.com
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monitordoc
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 7:27pm |
RETIRED FROM DAIRY FARMING IN 2003. STILL PUT UP HAY FOR THE ALPACAS AND STEERS, BUT RENT OUT THE REST OF THE FARM.
28 YEARS WITH ELECTRONICS BUSINESS. SALES AND SERVICE OF ALL TYPES OF FARM EQUIPMENT MONITORS AND CONTROLS.
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D-allis Iowa
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 7:54pm |
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Farming is all I have ever done and all I still do for a living.
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Jacob (WI,ND)
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 8:05pm |
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Just a wana-be farmer here. Grew up in the city, but I'm a farm boy at heart. I think I would have been a good farmer... maybe some day...
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Sandknob
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Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 8:05pm |
Yep, almost 40 acres of corn/soybean rotation with some wheat thrown in for good measure. Looking to up the acres by 55 within the next year or so. Keeping fingers crossed on that one. Have a full time job to pay the bills though.
Adam
Edited by Sandknob - 09 Mar 2011 at 11:29pm
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