As someone who has a family member with a little patch of land that we farm for him, I'll give some advice. When we are all hooked up to equipment and make time to do your farm, let us do it. If you want to drive the tractor, fine, but make the time in your schedule to be there at that time. I don't want to unhook the planter so you can do your fieldwork 3 weeks later than we did whatever job needed done at the time. I hope they didn't "mud it in" too much, that's not good either but if they did it for you and it wasn"t too muddy, at least it is done. If you came and took my planter without asking, to plant in the middle of the night, that would not do much to put me in a good mood. My family member never has to pay a dollar in machinery rent, and rarely chips in for fuel, but sometimes helps with labor on other jobs, which does go a long way if we need some help. The less labor he helps with later, the more cranky we get about providing machinery for free. Sometimes we have the tractor ready and waiting for the family member to work his own ground after work, but then there is a fun activity to go to or there is something else more urgent that needs done so the farm work doesn't get done then either. I'm sure you are busy with a real job, too, and that can make it hard to work in your 40 acres at a time when you can borrow whatever you need at the exact time you want to do the job. Maybe if they are willing to farm your acres when it works for them, you can do some of their farming on their ground when you have time to help them. I like to do the farming on my own acres, too, but sometimes it works out that someone else is running the tractors at that time. You just have to be thankful for the equipment you are running that you don't have to pay for and the help of getting your farm done when it can be worked in the schedule.
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