Is farmings easy???
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Topic: Is farmings easy???
Posted By: dt1050
Subject: Is farmings easy???
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 6:24am
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my neighbor pulled up next to the fence to chat, I shut the allis down and the first thing he said was. "I never new farming was so easy!!". He has no livestock and only plants about 20 rows of corn. he has a 50+hp kubota tractor loader backoe and owns aprox 2 acres. heck I HAND planted more corn than that just for the deer. If farming was easy everybody would do it!! while fixen the cattle fence, the same fella asked me if them metal "T" post would hold in a cow, my response. "nope, damn cows just walk around them post!"  Sometimes all I can do is shake my head and walk away!It's seems we are always working on something on our "farm", So am I doing something wrong and farming really is easy?? ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
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Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 7:37am
| Naw, it ain't hard. All you have to do is set in your easy chair and let the satellite run everything. It'll even cultivate your asparagus for you. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 7:54am
| For me, the hard part is balancing the budget and trying to keep my head above water financially. The rest of it, .......well some of it is "easy, some of it is hard work. Usually entails much more than 40 hour weeks, but I love doing it, so maybe it is easy. Darrel |
Posted By: ksbowman
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 8:02am
| And the pay is great to, sometime .25 to .50 an hour on the top side! Course sometimes you loose money too! I had a calf and a #1000 pound steer die this went and the steer was due to feed out starting next month. |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 8:43am
that's hard on the budget. lucky to get .50 an hour and heck putten post in the ground, stretching barb wire is fun and easy, no danger at all!!!  ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
ksbowman wrote:Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 9:01am
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Yup it is easy and highly profitable that is why everyone does it. Tell the neighbor he is right and that he should run out and start his own farm. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 9:05am
And tell him to start with all brand new equipment, because he'll pay it all off after the first harvest.
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Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 9:50am
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Yea, it is a life of leisure. I lease out my hay fields and pasture but I still work my butt off just keep up the barn, fences, house, and just general upkeep and I don't have to make a living off of it. I have a bunch of work waiting to be done and will be putting in some long days. But I love it and would never think of giving up the farm. When I was helping Dad farm it was dawn to dark except for Sundays. Two acres and 50+ hp tractor???......sounds like a bit of overkill. I would love to have a new tractor with a loader but can't justify the expense. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 10:12am
Well ofcourse he needs all new that is how he will avoid those expensive brake downs. LMAO |
Posted By: Ky.Allis
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 10:18am
| Compared to the farming methods our grandparents had---YES it's easy. But compared to a lot of sit down jobs that pay good money with good benefits---Well it's not so easy. The hardest thing is trying to make a profit with such huge overhead costs. I just farm very small(130 acres with 45 beef cows/calves) and use older(but well maintained) equipment that's been long paid for. Any more and I would have to hire a helper. Life is too short to run yourself crazy,carry a big debt load and give all your money to equipment manufactures,Seed companies and GM,Ford or Dodge. |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 10:20am
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It is easy as long as you don't expect to make money from it. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: WD45Diesel57
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 12:00pm
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like the old saying goes "if farming was easy everybody would be doing it" and this day and age its go big or get out! ------------- 1-B's, 2-C, 2-CA's,2-WF, 1-WC,1-G, 3-WD's, 2-WD45, 1-RC, 1-D17 Diesel, 1-D14, 2-D15,1-D17 row crop,1-D19 gas and All Crop 40,60,66,72,90 and 100 |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 12:06pm
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I forgot about the wonderful benefit package ya get..health care, retirement. lol
------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: davh
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 12:47pm
| Grew up on the farm and I do miss it. I do remember everything said here but there are plenty of great memories also. |
Posted By: TimNearFortWorth
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 2:21pm
| "Anybody can be a millionaire farming, just start with two million" . . . |
Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 2:25pm
And only farm for a month or two.... |
Posted By: David G.
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 5:36pm
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 6:17pm
| Very well said KY Allis,, I luv all these young guys who get it all gave to them , big diesel trucks,, living off Ole Grandpa!That just ain't right |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 6:42pm
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I can speak for all the chicken farmers. It's a HOT job. I'm in charge of around 75,000 chickens for 6 weeks at a time. I go through EVERY day and pick up dead birds and look for problems (breakdowns, water leaks, heaters not heating, fans not running, yet to anticipate what's going to happen tomorrow) and I'm "on call" 24/7 listening for the alarm to go off if it's too hot/cold, low water pressure, fan doesn't come on, etc. To give an example of the mortality, I will be selling a flock tomorrow. I started the flock 38 days ago with 75,000 chicks. I will be selling in the neighborhood of 66,000 chickens tomorrow (tomorrow starts at about 6am and ends about 7am Wednesday morning  ). If you average 9000 lost over 39 days you come up with roughly 230 per day. That's not good. That's about twice what we were getting and nobody has any answers why. Even the vets at UGA and Auburn don't know. When we sell we expect to average about 5.25 lbs. We get paid roughly $0.068 per pound before they subtract feed. With the extra 4500 birds lost that's about $1600 off the top. If you bring this up to the people you grow for they say "well theta a certain amount of risk involved in livestock. Sorry about your luck".Sure farming is easy. I just don't know who it's easy for. One thing I can guarantee, it's a job you will LOVE or LEAVE. Any farmer that doesn't want to farm only farms because he hasn't been able to sell it yet. It is good for one thing though. I've lost about 16 lbs since I started last June. ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 7:05pm
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follow a baler through the fields and throw hay all day, see how easy it is..lol ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 7:37pm
X2 ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: dave63
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 7:45pm
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Their's Farming for money then their's farming with money. Don't confuse the two. ------------- The universal answer to all questions is yes, how much do you want to spend? |
Posted By: Ranse
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 8:10pm
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My father told me a joke years ago. It was about an old farmer who just won the lottery. People asked him what he was going to do now? He said, " I'm just going to keep farming as long as the money last". Of course we all would love to win the lottery. I would like to win it so I could buy enough land and equipment to farm full time so I wouldn't have to work at another job. Farming isn't for everyone, especially the small farmer ( like me). The thing I hear about farming is get big or get out. There's very little profit in it. Everything so expensive, fuel, fertilize, chemicals, and not to mention equipment. The list goes on. As the world continues to shrink, more and more people are going to become hungry. Is there going to be enough farmers to feed them?
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Posted By: VAfarmboy
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 10:17pm
| The best way to make a small fortune farming is to start with a large fortune. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2017 at 11:19pm
| I miss the days when you could make a good living on 160 acres and not be in big debt.... |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2017 at 3:56am
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Same fella and a few of his neighborhood pals are pitching a fit cause we fixed our barbwire fence and got a few cows. They are slowly turning our area into a development. minus a couple horses, there's no farms around me. I'm still battling the urban blight and will hold out as long as I can. It seams the more they complain about my little farm, the more cows,fowl, pigs I get? surely it a coincidence. ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2017 at 7:36am
How could you be old enough to miss those days? 
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Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2017 at 7:39am
Don't fix the fence too good, leave a bad spot so the cows can get into his 20 rows of corn. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: ksbowman
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2017 at 8:14am
| My grandfather made a living off 40 acres. Pretty big chicken laying house, hand full of milk cows, few turkeys and pigs. Grew his own hay and alfalfa. Never was rich but always made a living. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2017 at 8:39am
That's what grandpa says. "We weren't rich, but we had it pretty good."
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Posted By: Gatz in NE
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2017 at 9:55am
X3 |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2017 at 8:34pm
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The first day out you get all hot, so you take your shirt off...........Now you're so sunburned you can hardly do the night milking. You gotta LOVE it, or it'll kill you. Also, it's called PRIDE.
Yep, farming is about as easy as it gets..... Those, were the GOOD OLD DAYS!!! HONEST TO GOD!!! ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: DougS
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2017 at 9:08pm
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Farming was enjoyable when I was growing up - except for those &^%@$ cows. If all I had to do was drop a plow into the ground and daydream until I got to the end of the field, I'd enjoy farming. |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2017 at 5:12am
I loved working the fields, smell of a fresh cut hay field or the fresh tilled dirt....before the manure  these folks around me are worried about making there lawns look like a golf course, they brag about how much they fertilize, lime and cut there grass. heck, my moo-ers cut and fertilize the grass daily!!!  ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2017 at 7:34am
| farming is easy, and just like any other business or hobby can be fun too, just use common sense, it was a stress reliever for me for 45+ years. where else can you get to operate all kinds of different equipment, and get to use all kinds of tools? where else can you enjoy the outside with the sun, the rain, and even the pretty snow? and without farming...where would this forum be? or would it? |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2017 at 3:08pm
That's all I'd need, our rooster was blamed for crapping on his porch. roosters wings are clipped, made it over 2 fences and up in his rafters, crossed the road all while holding his bowls to crap on his porch and he made it back in the coop by the time I checked on the flock at 5am? possible yes, likely no. I was just informed my cows smell like cows....who'd guessed. another complaint, time to find another calf. ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2017 at 3:32pm
Here as long as your zoned agricultural there us nothing they can do. Just smile and comment on how nice it is to live in the country that is what i do. But I seldom get complaints. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2017 at 3:38pm
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I figure 'farming' is easy... it's making any money doing it, that's HARD !! ------------- 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: dt1050
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2017 at 3:40pm
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farming is ok in a residential area according to our newly adopted zoning. If not we'd be grandfathered in, they passed zoning 2 years ago, been farming for 20+. ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2017 at 10:19pm
------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2017 at 3:47am
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getten a calf Sunday. Hope I don't get many more complaints, gonna need a bigger barn....lol
------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2017 at 5:30am
| You should really get 2 calves. Cows are herd animals and while you can raise them alone it is much better for them if there are at least 2. |
Posted By: Herb(GA)
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2017 at 6:06am
| Ted J., about the only job you did not note was throwing down silage on a cold, KS, windy, winter morning when more seem to blow back up than what you had thrown down, and the bad job (cleaning the chicken house). I normally got out of milking by operating the tractor in the field until nearly dark. Herb(GA) |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2017 at 4:27am
the calf sale fell through, it was born with out a rectum. That was a new one for me, recon a higher power realized there's enough rectums in the world. now worries cleaning the chicken house, ours is on skids. I just move it and scoop out the crap and dump it on the compost pile. ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2017 at 5:47am
| Well I haven't seen that birth defect before. But I had a still born calf the other day. Didn't feel like it even had lungs when I tried to get it to breath. Then to add insult to injury the cow had to be put down because she got damaged and couldn't stand again. Yup farming sure is easy. This spring I have lost the first two cows and calves. |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2017 at 6:50am
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sorry ya lost your cows/calfs. I wish folks would try working on a farm. it will give you a real respect for the food on your plate. another misconception is when they buy a steak/milk at the store for a high price, they just assume the farmer is making a lot of money. yea right, farmer ain't even get'n a 1/4 of that money ya pay in the store. ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |
Posted By: ksbowman
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2017 at 9:00am
| You know I had two in the last two years that had nerve damage calving. The first one calved in the timber and got wallowed down into a ravine upside down. I took the chain saw and the 170 down and cut a pathway to her. Had two neighbors with me and they said it was a waste of time, that she was dead. I got her to blink an eye so I knew there was a spark. Pulled the 170 in with a loader on it, put a couple straps on her legs and picked her out of the ravine and threaded thru the timber out into the pasture. I laid her down and in a few minutes she held her head up. Carried her water and hay for 4 days and she got up. Just had another calf 3 days ago. My 170D has a cab on it so it doesn't do to well in the timber. The other cow was fed and watered and I gave her steroid shots but she went 5 days and didn't make it. Even picked her up with belly cradle twice with the 170 and 500 loader ( they both weighed 1200-1300#)just wasn't in the cards. Farming is so easy! |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2017 at 7:41am
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took the 5020 down and spread the compose pile (manure and veggy scraps from) on the garden, then cleaned the barn out....yea haw, what a stink.....rain today and tomorrow then sun, perfect time to spread some poo around. Glad I thought things out a bit and made the barn door big enough to get the tractor in, also put the barn right beside the garden, easy haul and use less fuel. compose pile is above garden. with the hill side it's perfect cause, ..... rolls down hill....  ------------- Just cause it's orange don't make it a tractor, there's only one..Allis Chalmers |