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watermock
08-01-2005, 08:28 PM
I dunno if this would interest anyone, but we traded in a pretty good combine to a kick-ass unit last week. It's got GPS like our best tractor.
We got a semi from a bank for 6K that needed a new air tank, we have a mini trucking company. I wouldn't put Penske on the sides, but it's been to New Jersey and back, and has made money allready, both driver and owner, and it's a good ride.
Got the beans sprayed and the weeds said goodbye in the soybeans. The corn down south went thru some dry and won't go 200, just 150, but it was impossible to plant up here and turn on the pumps down there at the same time, so that has to do. Fancy new combine to chew up the corn is good good good. Even tho we got insurance from the flooding, my beans are happy and making up time! One more good late summer rain when the blossom and it's double bonanza as long as there isn't an early frost. I have almost all short maturity beans in that won't yield again, but we are pushing the envelope. Here's to global warming..Ha!
Half a million in equipment in the last two years. You have to have the equipment to play. Almost there. It dried up in the Delta which sucks, but it remains to be seen how bad the burn is. Now it's up to the beans to play catchup. Going to start harvesting corn this week. So odd, it's always beans first, then corn.
Anyway, for someone almost out of business and the bank threatening, we got a virtually new combine that kicks freaking ass...It's a muncher, a cruncher and has all the goodies.
watermock
08-01-2005, 08:36 PM
BTW, we have two Black Kids who are totally psyched to work for us. We pay them well and they are getting great agricultural experience. They are great guys. I hope we can keep them after they learn the ropes. They are outstanding.
broncogary
08-01-2005, 08:40 PM
Great report Khan!... Oops Mock.
Meck77
08-01-2005, 08:40 PM
...It's a muncher, a cruncher and has all the goodies.
Paint it orange.
Meck's farm report August 1st, 2005.
Corn is dry but making progress. I have almost $14.00 bucks invested into this years crop. $4.00 in seed and a $10.00 used hoe from the swap meet. The bind weed is almost taking over my 3 rows of corn. Haven't seen much in the way of rain in almost a week. Might have to go to
Safeway for the corn if the weather doesn't change. We are risking starvation at the fall tailgate. Mother nature is a bitch.
watermock
08-01-2005, 08:45 PM
I suggest you call USDA. You obviously have a crop failure. Did you get insurance?
watermock
08-01-2005, 08:49 PM
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:CMmSXoXhUcEJ:www.deere.com/en_AU/images/press_releases/high_resolution_images/60serieshigh_2.jpg
Kaylore
08-01-2005, 09:35 PM
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:CMmSXoXhUcEJ:www.deere.com/en_AU/images/press_releases/high_resolution_images/60serieshigh_2.jpg
Nice, but does it have Bose speakers?
Mtbrncofn
08-01-2005, 09:40 PM
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:CMmSXoXhUcEJ:www.deere.com/en_AU/images/press_releases/high_resolution_images/60serieshigh_2.jpg
That's a chick magnet if I ever saw one!
delany
08-01-2005, 09:41 PM
I heard that husbandry is the rage again.
Machines are so last century.
watermock
08-01-2005, 09:47 PM
Nice, but does it have Boes speakers?
it's got dvd and gps, you just have to make sure your not wanking off to turn it around.
watermock
08-01-2005, 09:51 PM
You obviously don't have a clue what farming was like only 30 years ago. We custom fitted a tractor with a cab that had a heater, which we had to install.
My equipment now has air filtration standard. Maybe the half million investment passed you by while your ignorance took root.
watermock
08-01-2005, 09:56 PM
50 years ago farmers were braving straw in their faces. Now your asking is they have Bose speakers? NO, it's a matter of montioring the computers off the GPS. Running a high tech machine in't a matter of boom box.
Kaylore
08-01-2005, 09:59 PM
50 years ago farmers were braving straw in their faces. Now your asking is they have Bose speakers? NO, it's a matter of montioring the computers off the GPS. Running a high tech machine in't a matter of boom box.
It was a joke Mock. I'm sure its a fine machine.
Mtbrncofn
08-01-2005, 09:59 PM
Ya done pissed Mock off, Kaylore.
Meck77
08-01-2005, 10:01 PM
[QUOTE=watermock Running a high tech machine in't a matter of boom box.[/QUOTE]
Well it depends on the machine IMO. Hey Mock your family doesn't produce moonshine does it? I have some family in eastern europe that are pros at making home made Vodka.
Won't have much trade in value without the Bose.
watermock
08-02-2005, 04:12 PM
Well, the new combine was 75K plus the old one, which we trimmed up to make it out more than it was. It was a very good Deere, but had alot of hard riding. These critters are close to 200k new now.
Bad news is mock is being invaded by ahpids attacking my soybeans. It never ends I guess. Evidently they don't have a genetically engineered bean that repulses the little bastards...I hate pesticides, but it's being applied. Big pain in the ass, but they will eat the crop if we don't spray them. Luckily, we have the spraying equipment, just wiped out the weeds, so just change chemicals and roll over the ground again. I'm glad that fancy tractor has air filtration. It's nasty stuff. Aerial spraying is an option, but I think ground application is more effective. Stupid Aphids...I hate pesticides, but it has to be done.
Grasshoppers, Rats, Aphids and Mosquitoes. There is no God.
Sounds yummy, tofu anyone, we got genetically engineered soya that has been inundated with chemicals so strong the operator has to wear a gas mask.
The poisoning of America quietly and ignorantly marches on.
watermock
08-02-2005, 04:27 PM
That's an incredibly ignorant stance quite honestly. I suggest you go holistic and get in touch with Little Ricky. As I said, I hate using pesticides. If I don't there is a crop failure and people starve even worse. Plus I go broke. You think I like it? FU.
Sit on your high horse and grow your own food. If termites start chewing away at whatever hut your living in, do you just let them munch away? Hypocryte.
Moon§hiner
08-02-2005, 04:37 PM
Consider your crop outputs a boon compared to my area Mock....driving out in the country the other day there were corn and milo crops that will most likely not even be cut because of drought....I don't farm anymore, but I realize that if they aren't making money then they aren't buying new stuff (like new a/c's, new cars, new appliances etc)..in this part of the country even if you don't farm, as the farmer goes so goes the rest of the economy.
That's an incredibly ignorant stance quite honestly. I suggest you go holistic and get in touch with Little Ricky. As I said, I hate using pesticides. If I don't there is a crop failure and people starve even worse. Plus I go broke. You think I like it? FU.
Sit on your high horse and grow your own food. If termites start chewing away at whatever hut your living in, do you just let them munch away? Hypocryte.
There is no short answer for you Mock and I don'r mean to single you out either. Our system is flawed but the good news is while commerical farming is growing by 3 % a year organic farming is growing by 25% a year and is really eating into markert share. I can give any number of web sites verifing this if you like.
Real living food from real living soil -the wave of the future!
Particularly nasty are the genetically altered crops because when the flower and pollinate the alter forever strains of seed that have fed humans sense the beginning of time.
Particularly nasty are the genetically altered crops because when they flower and pollinate they alter forever strains of seed that have fed humans sense the beginning of time.
Moon§hiner
08-02-2005, 04:43 PM
There is no short answer for you Mock and I don'r mean to single you out either. Our system is flawed but the good news is while commerical farming is growing by 3 % a year organic farming is growing by 25% a year and is really eating into markert share. I can give any number of web sites verifing this if you like.
Real living food from real living soil -the wave of the future!
Sorry Baja...organic won't work in the midwest where the volume of crop is unfathomal to most...with the Ogallala aquifer depleting water is getting more scarce....organic isn't going to keep the hordes of grasshoppers away that will eat in a 30 foot bite over a 60 acre field, multiplied by numerous acre fields....things are changing here...pivot irrigation is now the big thing and low till planters but organic is fine for fruit stands but not the mass population
watermock
08-02-2005, 04:46 PM
There is no short answer for you Mock and I don'r mean to single you out either. Our system is flawed but the good news is while commerical farming is growing by 3 % a year organic farming is growing by 25% a year and is really eating into markert share. I can give any number of web sites verifing this if you like.
Real living food from real living soil -the wave of the future!
I don't have problem one with that Baja. It's all about supply and demand. We have looked into growing watermellon in Mexico, but it's such a bitch to transport them. I have friends trying their hands in Brazil, but I find that disgusting to clear the forest. It's horrible. Genetically engineered seed hasn't been proven even once to make allergic reactions. The real issue is about weakening the genetic line. I'm not a agronomist, but I know quite a bit about how this stuff is put together, and there is no danger, other than losing the original strain. You can't lose the original strain. That is paramount. It's just like Maize in South America. We made Hybrid Corn and doubled it's production, tripled actually, the cobs used to form on the tassle. Noone really knows this. We have used Hybrid for generations now, to change would mean mass starvation in an allready starving world, so get off my back. I gotta kill those insects because they are trying to eat my crop, simple enough? I didn't invite them.
I don't have problem one with that Baja. It's all about supply and demand. We have looked into growing watermelon in Mexico, but it's such a b**** to transport them. I have friends trying their hands in Brazil, but I find that disgusting to clear the forest. It's horrible. Genetically engineered seed hasn't been proven even once to make allergic reactions. The real issue is about weakening the genetic line. I'm not a agronomist, but I know quite a bit about how this stuff is put together, and there is no danger, other than losing the original strain. You can't lose the original strain. That is paramount. It's just like Maize in South America. We made Hybrid Corn and doubled it's production, tripled actually, the cobs used to form on the tassle. Noone really knows this. We have used Hybrid for generations now, to change would mean mass starvation in an allready starving world, so get off my back. I gotta kill those insects because they are trying to eat my crop, simple enough? I didn't invite them.
Well this is an unwinable argument. I will settle to eat organic and pick my times to win converts to the organic life style. I will say from personal experience I have recovered my health by changing my diet and eating living foods. And Mock I'm not "on your back" I simply see a system of farming that is not sustainable. Heck dude 70% of the US top soil is gone to sea and your solution is clear cut Brazilian forests to continue your unsustainable practices because you have ruined your own lands. Just take a deep breath and take a look at the big picture, one way or another you will learn to work WITH nature. In the mean time GO BRONCOS