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Post by Nathan on Mar 12, 2022 23:01:38 GMT
Gonna start a batch this week. I do several batches a year. Anyone else?
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Post by trapperles on Mar 12, 2022 23:04:02 GMT
My family used to do 100 southern broilers (cornish x rocks) every year, it quit when Dad passed a few years ago.
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Post by Nathan on Mar 12, 2022 23:21:53 GMT
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Post by Nathan on Mar 12, 2022 23:22:36 GMT
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Post by Nathan on Mar 12, 2022 23:23:26 GMT
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Post by Nathan on Mar 12, 2022 23:24:31 GMT
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Post by MartyB on Mar 12, 2022 23:51:14 GMT
All for you, or Farmees mkt?
I think Farmer's Markets are going to kill it this year.
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Post by Nathan on Mar 13, 2022 0:06:26 GMT
Alot for me and close friends, a few get sold around the neighborhood. Never even been to a farmer's market but there's alot of them in my area. Just never had the time, although Im sure it's more profitable than the " real farming" I do
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Post by outlaw99 on Mar 13, 2022 0:34:46 GMT
Nathan, tell me about your real farming operation
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Post by Nathan on Mar 13, 2022 0:53:55 GMT
I milk about 70-85 cows at any given time depending on how fresh we are. I also farm a little over 500 acres of corn, wheat, and soybeans. I hire out my manure hauling and use a custom harvester for silage and combining. But day to day chores it's just me and my 73 year old dad. My parlor is completely outdated and eventually I'd like to quit milking but I'd need to replace that cashflow.
Really tough with dad getting older and it has kept me from traveling to do any serious trapping for a few years on account of not wanting to leave too much work for him.
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Post by outlaw99 on Mar 13, 2022 1:45:27 GMT
That’s a lot of work. I’m in a similar situation in a row crop farming situation with my 70 yr old dad. We farm around 1300 row crop acres, 100% no till in the Missouri River bottoms. Also have a small cow calf operation and run some alfalfa and grass hay as well. My dad just turned 70 in Nov, hadn’t seen a Dr since he was 21 in basic training, just found out he’s type 2 diabetic, kidney disease, congestive heart failure, and glaucoma. Gonna make things interesting for us this coming year. All that aside, milking that many cows along with maintaining a self sufficient lifestyle like you have is a load of work.
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Post by Nathan on Mar 14, 2022 0:25:04 GMT
Outlaw, you and I have some weird coincidental similarities. My dad also never went to a doctor since he got out of the army in 1971. When he turned 60 we forced him to go and he found out he had atrial fibrillation, and some other heart problems. Since then he's had some other small health problems but he still does well. One of the toughest things is trying to get them to realize that they can't do what they once did, even if they think they can. Can actually be down right frustrating at times.
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Post by outlaw99 on Mar 14, 2022 12:03:08 GMT
You nailed it there. My old man shouldn’t even consider coming back right now, but that’s not even an option in his head.I hope your Dad stays in it as long as he wants to. Good luck with your upcoming year. Prices are gonna be good, now if we can just keep from getting raped by everything else along the way.
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Post by Nathan on Mar 14, 2022 13:40:39 GMT
Same to you. I have my chemicals bought for the most part. And I switched to all enlist beans because of liberty being so scarce. The suppliers I deal with locally would not even take orders on any nitrogen products since last fall, even if you pre paid, and now they are at around 920/ton for urea. I did find a source for 32% UAN the other day for 702 delivered.
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Post by outlaw99 on Mar 14, 2022 21:37:09 GMT
Locking in those inputs is gonna be huge this year. Lots of folks talked like it was all a bullshit rumor and prices would come down this spring. I wonder how they’re feeling about now. In our heavy gumbo, we have to fall apply NH3 or we usually can’t get it on inn5e spring. I locked it in last summer for $750, which is still insane, but looks a whole lot better than $1450 right now. I also overbought on glyphosate at the end of last summer just in case all the rumors decided to be true, and I’m glad I physically have it on hand. Still not a great feeling knowing we got away with it for 2022, knowing there’s a good chance 2023 is going to be a repeat or most likely worse as a result of this administration. In the end it all don’t mean shit if we don’t get some weather to make things grow. Hope it’s another decent year weather wise.
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