Category: farming
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Beat Up
For the past couple of days I have had the joy of sitting on a tractor renovating the alfalfa. I think I would feel better if My Darling Wife beat me with a stick. I don't know what it is about farming but it cripples me up ever time I have to sit on a…
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Wheat
I have been following the price of wheat with interest noticing that it has been shooting up and now I see <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/09/13/news/local/20-wheat.txt">a story</a> in the Gazette about it. Nine dollars a bushel for wheat. That's a lot of money. Is it enough? That I'm not to sure about.<br />n<br />nMy dad raised wheat for…
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Timing
Timing seems to be everything in life but sometimes you can't take the credit for it. It finally got dry enough that I was able to get all my renovating and farming done. I finished putting the seed in the ground on Wednesday afternoon and finish up the farming I was really pushing on. Guess…
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Farming
I know posting has been lacking here of late but I have been fairly busy and not had much time to post. I finally got all the cattle where I wanted them this week and got some farming done.<br />n<br />nI finished the renovating Saturday, covered almost 800 acres in 4 days, and am now…
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When it Rains, It Pours
On Monday we got over an inch of rain. Last year I would have given anything for moisture, so far this spring I am getting more than enough. I rode across my plowed field that I want to seed to grass and my horse was sinking in about a foot and there was water standing…
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Combine
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Farming/combine08142006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Farming/combine08142006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>An old combine my Grandpa used many, many moons ago. He always said the thing he missed most when he bought the place in Livingston was the farming. Sounds pretty nutty to me. I don't like the farming. Taken 8/14/2006.</center>
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Another Time
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Farming/equipment06122006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Farming/equipment06122006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Another piece of old equipment that sits over at the Williams Place. I am not sure what it is. maybe somebody could tell me. Taken 6/12/2006.</center>
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New Baler
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Farming/baler06022006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Farming/baler06022006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The new baler arrived the other day. Boy is it a massive and complicated piece of machinery. I've spent two days setting it up and getting myself familiar with how it works. The dealer is supposed to send somebody out to help get it running…
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Busy, Busy
Busy, Busy, Busy. Busy getting spring work done. It's finally getting dry enough to farm a little so I am trying to get some of that done. I might have been able to get some done earlier but everything I want to plant this year, around 200 acres, has alfalfa with it and you want…
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To The Hills
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/trail04102006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/trail04102006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/waiting04102006?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/waiting04102006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>It's that time of year again. Feeding is over and the cows get to go into the hills. Yesterday we took the two-year old heifers out to the hills. It was a long, tiring trek, 8…