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re: Meandering Agriculture thread
Posted on 11/12/12 at 10:49 pm to Clyde Tipton
Posted on 11/12/12 at 10:49 pm to Clyde Tipton
that's the size operation i'm talking. did you start new or inherit some of the land/equip/cattle ect?
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Posted on 11/12/12 at 10:50 pm to jimbeam
15-20. Just got bored with it, and I wasn't making enough money to justify the time I was putting in. If you're on that scale, it's definitely a hobby because there ain't much money coming out of it.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 10:53 pm to highcotton2
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We are cutting wheat beans right now and we are pushing it to get 4 mph and that is loading the hell out of the machine. My fuel rate was 22 gal/hr.
How much fuel were you burning a day in the 7760 picker? That thing has a 290 gallon tank and at the end of a good day the fuel level low buzzer was going off for me.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 10:53 pm to jimbeam
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did you start new or inherit some of the land/equip/cattle ect?
Inherited the land. Started with 2 cows and a bull. Switch bulls every 2 years once keeper/replacement heifers get breeding age. I help a guy bale and move hay to have rights to use his tractor and hay for my cows too. He's a baller so he doesn't care... he's happy to have the help.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 10:57 pm to Clyde Tipton
how many heifers do you normally keep/replace?
Posted on 11/12/12 at 11:11 pm to jimbeam
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how many heifers do you normally keep/replace?
That depends on a lot of things, most importantly capacity. Other than that, how many I have that year available to choose from, conformation, color, horn.
I have longhorns btw... it's just a hobby. I like them because they don't all look the same.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 11:12 pm to Clyde Tipton
i see your sig. makes sense now 
Posted on 11/12/12 at 11:14 pm to jimbeam
I keep up with 44 head on 220ish acres. Definitely not my shite. I'm just the hand
Posted on 11/12/12 at 11:16 pm to jimbeam
Yeah, frick UT. Love the mascot though...
Love the mascot though...Posted on 11/12/12 at 11:24 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Spring herd is around 300, fall herd is around 200. 14 bulls. 2,900 acres.
Just a hand, too.
Just a hand, too.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 11:27 pm to brad8504
I've helped pen and sell a little over 500 head in a day before. Couldn't keep up with those guys.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 11:28 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
whats the maximum hd/ac you could keep in S.LA. if you had decent bermuda and then rye through the winter
Posted on 11/12/12 at 11:30 pm to jimbeam
One per acre I guess. We always had way more grass than cows. You could do better with hay and shite though.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 11:32 pm to jimbeam
Depends on the type of cattle, what you have them on and what you are trying to do with them. We try to keep to a 2 acres per head.
This post was edited on 11/12/12 at 11:33 pm
Posted on 11/12/12 at 11:39 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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I've helped pen and sell a little over 500 head in a day before. Couldn't keep up with those guys.
Never worked that many in a day, but it's two separate management practices for each herd. Spring herd is more intensive just because of the weather. If you really want to have a good time, come up for a weekend and check heifers all night once calving season starts in February. Pulling a calf isn't all that bad when you consider how cold it gets.
You just may not sleep much the first couple of weeks.Posted on 11/13/12 at 6:55 am to brad8504
Pulling calves ain't bad as long as you're not the one whose gotta do it
Posted on 11/14/12 at 9:02 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here are some more shots of the soybean harvest today. For some reason that wheat straw in the soybeans is loading the crap out of the rotor.
I guess I should move this to the farming board
I guess I should move this to the farming board
Posted on 11/14/12 at 9:03 pm to highcotton2
Posted on 11/14/12 at 9:05 pm to jimbeam
I am jelly
Posted on 11/14/12 at 9:06 pm to GREENHEAD22
if you can get the right rain (and prices obviously) beans are so nice
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