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Likes To Farm

10-11-2005 05:37:42




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Tobacco buyout a reality. Land may not be as easy to rent as it was when tobacco allotment attached. Dad used to farm mostly tobacco and some small grain but stopped when I started school and general farm economy started going downhill. Kept 2 140's and have most equipment. Have good off farm job. Reckon I could handle this amt. with this tractor ok. Have Int 10 grain drill which would likely plant with. Some people do round up ready and trash farm round here nowadays any way. Figure disk 3 times plant spray rotate with some wheat. Do able? Know not going to make much. That's why I can't see buying another tractor. I figure use what got that's fairly economical to oprerate and fix. Have lot of experience running this tractor. Thoughts?

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Likes To farm

10-12-2005 06:09:54




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 Re: Farming with 140 in reply to Likes To Farm, 10-11-2005 05:37:42  
Thanks, Hugh your advice is appreciated and always good



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Likes To Farm

10-11-2005 08:08:12




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 Re: Farming with 140 in reply to Likes To Farm, 10-11-2005 05:37:42  
60 acres was about how much would be tended.



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Hugh MacKay

10-11-2005 16:25:33




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 Re: Farming with 140 in reply to Likes To Farm, 10-11-2005 08:08:12  
If you like to farm, may I remind you the very first year I plowed 100 acres, I was farming 250 acres and I plowed that 100 with Farmall 130 and 2x12 fast hitch plow. It was a dairy farm and other tractors on the farm included a Farmall 300 and a Cockshutt 540. Roughly 90 hp to farm 250 acres. The 300 and 540 spread the manure and 130 did the fall plowing. My dad and I milked the cows and one of us spread manure while the other plowed between milkings. The guy that plowed was allowed to skip evening milking as long as he kept plowing.

You will get along fine on 60 acres with 2 - 140s, Just keep it low labour and go with corn, beans or wheat. Don't fool with those vegetables if you have a day job. Make sure there is a custom combine operator to do your harvest. And don't use grain wagons that hold more than 2 ton. Better still find a custom operator that handles crop all the way to elevator.

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jfp

10-11-2005 07:54:46




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 Re: Farming with 140 in reply to Likes To Farm, 10-11-2005 05:37:42  
You got it going right. Did you ever think about truck patch. Like purple hull peas and then turnips in the fall? Some guys do pretty good between grocery stores and fruit stands as a partial income but I don't know how much time you got to fool with extra stuff. LOL



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ShepFL

10-11-2005 06:24:45




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 Re: Farming with 140 in reply to Likes To Farm, 10-11-2005 05:37:42  
I still do some "truck farming" but do it now mainly to keep my tractors active, can up a bunch of stuff and it gives me some much needed stress relief from the day job. Also use it to teach my sons strong work ethic.

You will not get rich doing this by no means. I suggest you find niche market and work that angle. I am trying fresh cut stem flowers this coming spring. This past yr. the day job took precedence and the weeds took over. Spring is coming :)

FWIW

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