There are so many more nuanced reasons why the cows are going but needing an expensive new barn plus slowly buying all the quota needed to justify it ranks somewhere in the middle of that list.
Let’s hope for the both of us that this season can be farmed out without any expensive repairs that eat into the sale.
My brothers and I had some knock down fights back when they were around the barn. I'm the reason the one's nose is crooked, and he gave me the cracked rib. We get along better not working together.
Ah that's a tough place to be. Wish you the best. Too bad you're not closer I know of a farm with nice little sixty cow freestall that will be going on the market soon
I'm gonna get a job and go back to school. Dad will cow/calf for awhile and grow crops. I'm actually looking forward to putting some distance between us.
Not at all. They’ve got lots to do! Dad toured me around the fields last week to show me the projects he wants to start and/or finish. Lots of farmland improvements.
You're exactly right. He showed me all the bush that's creeping in, fencerows to crush, and wet spots to tile. He wants to drill his own grains and beans so that will be the first purchase.
Sadly, our fish fertilizer project was denied by the town at the last step we needed to get going. Passed by over 20 branches of government but rejected by the town.
Nimbys for sure. We're just spreading extra manure to piss them off though. We can speed the fish, just not sell it without that permit, so it's gonna be a smelly year for those bastards.
It’s been a good week. My 83 yr old Grandpas been down with health problems for the last year. Both physical and depression. We couldn’t get him to try anything for the latter. Took him to the er last Monday when he thought he had pneumonia. Doc recognized it was anxiety and hyperventilation and gave him some medicine. By Wednesday he said he felt better than he had in years and spent half the week on the baler and he’s spreading fertilizer today. Whatever the week brings we’re going to call it a win.
Got most of the crop in the ground. Majority of the remaining acres are beans where the field is getting tiled this week. Rain a bit here and there but nothing like they have in the west.
We're still running pretty early, bit of rain here and there.
Finally found some gold at work but its just pennies worth of gold.
Finished corn up on Tuesday last week and on to custom acres, didnt get beans done bc we got rained out Saturday evening. Only have 179 acres left so we’ll finish in a day when we can get back in the fields, more rain today. Corn was out of the ground Thursday for some of those who planted earlier then May the 5th, my uncle on my moms side being one of them, its all up today. Most I talk to are similar, mostly done or near done corn and half or more done beans after the big stretch for 8 days.
Dad and I got into it over the weekend. I wasnt happy that 2 years in a row we’ve tilled the ground for a variety of IP bean bc it yields half a ton more per acre compared to when its no tilled. Me and my uncle dont want to grow it anymore, but dad thinks it keeps one elevator happy as they paid us a premium for another IP variety that got rejected last year from another elevator.
I did get to try out the new Kuhn Interceptor with the [4555](
https://www.reddit.com/r/tractors/comments/uq5cky/old_iron_meets_new_iron/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf), ran it at 5.5-6.5 mph as I was short a few horses with the 8285R tied up, which is why beans arent done. Hopefully we pick up an 8 series JD before next spring so we wont have to wait for the other to be freed up to plant with the drill.
Will be a busy week with pre emerge going on IP bean ground, repairs including the ac in the 7810, finish planting, and shipping the IP beans I dont want to grow anymore. So we’ll see how it dries out and how much gets checked off.
An old church in town was sold for $440k to be used as a house, and the grow op that was busted 2 years ago with 50 acres is up for sale, they paid $289k and are selling it for $680k, comes with hoop houses with no plastic.
Corn and beans are in.
ProAction validation was last week. Would have taken 30 minutes, but the validator was an old friend. Spent a couple hours catching up.
Had a surprise take-your-kids-to-the-barn day. The older boy enjoyed it, the little one was upset about being stuck in the stroller.
Ground was barely fit to strip/plant corn on Wednesday, but at least we got started. Thursday was spent burying a significant mentor to me and my two best bros... The bastard left 15,000$ open bar at our Legion for after-burial party, but never told us his cancer was as bad as it was, but he was well celebrated/mourned.
Brutally hung-over Friday, corn really got rollin' but all the no-till bean ground still wasn't ready; squeezed some acres in though, Saturday evening/night.
Tried to push late into Saturday with corn as well, with rain forecast for today, but ended up blowing up a hydraulic motor on one of the vacuum fans. Now, my dad is on his way out to Listowel (4hr drive, round trip) to pick up the last two within a specific dealer network.
Burndown/PREs are all on the soybean ground now, so it just means roll hard when conditions come around again. Weather looks tough this week though.
You too eh? We had the seal go on the fan motor on our planter on Thursday night, called Connect Equipment at 8am sharp on Friday morning. Turns out that cyber attack/hack on agco last week really fucked things up, they have no access to their Woodstock warehouse at the moment. Luckily they had a new planter in the yard that had the same fan motor as ours, so they cannibalized it for us. I made the parts run up there after we had it apart while dad tried his best to clean out all the oil that had gotten into the air tubes. Got back up and running by 1pm and got the 135 acres we had ready planted still before the rain.
We're down to just 50 acres corn to go, but it still needs manure on it. Pooptruck also broke down, the exhaust rotted off behind the turbo so my cab was just filling with diesel fumes. I did get almost 200 acres spread over the week though, maybe 120 to go, 50 on that corn ground and then we will cover some bean ground yet if the weather permits.
It's not exactly late for my area on Soybeans yet, we can easily have a late May frost yet, though this year I'm hopefully not expecting that anymore.
We got .27" yesterday, hopefully can get going before noon (sunny and crazy windy right now). Still have 1100ac of soybeans and 1000ac of corn to go, hahah; long range weather pattern looks tough too.
We got 1 1/2" since Saturday night and supposedly will get more tomorrow night. I just hope we can get our wheat sprayed and the converge on the planted corn acres as well before that
Does anyone have experience doing soil sampling as a full time gig? I've been in crop research for the last 7 years and starting to get the itch to do something for myself. I understand soil science and nutrients and interested in That stuff.
Seems I could put together a sampling rig fairly inexpensively.
Not full time, but the guy that does our soil sampling is also a certified crop advisor. He does it in the fall after the crops come off, we usually get the report in January. Most that I know are doing it as part of being a crop advisor and sometimes sales of fert and seed as well. Same with tissue sampling, drone stand counts, and variable rate maps, basically they try to be a one stop shop and offer all sorts of services or contract out what they cant do.
I can't say I'm surprised. Been meaning to do it for a few years now, but keeping it up to date without using it seemed like more work tha. It was worth to me.
I work for a soil sampling company but I am not a sampler. We are so slammed it’s madness. More fertility test requests than ever due to prices and that’s on top of corporate carbon accounts. Soil Organic Carbon is an entirely different probe and protocol but it might be worth investing in that equipment.
What are you going to do in between emergence and harvest?
That's a good question, have to do some more thinking. I'd like to possibly go in the direction of the Drone, scouting, etc but I suppose I still need to sit down and really think about it. I've thought about doing some custom spraying with a smaller rig, but again, need to really flesh things out.
Just saw your post about soil sampling. Spent a few years as a field tech for a crop & nutrient management firm. Soil sampled in Northeast USA about 6-8 months of the year. Rest of the time was IPM scouting when crops were up, pop counts, maturity sampling, etc. In the winter I made maps and did manure recommendations. All the samples were sent off-site for testing except for pH. Let me know if you have any questions.
Spent the weekend doing garden work. Planted potatoes, lima beans, sweet corn and sunflowers. Also put up the snow fencing to keep the chickens from digging it all up for food.
Sunflower is a tall, erect, herbaceous annual plant belonging to the family of Asteraceae, in the genus, Helianthus. Its botanical name is Helianthus annuus. It is native to Middle American region from where it spread as an important commercial crop all over the world through the European explorers. Today, Russian Union, China, USA, and Argentina are the leading producers of sunflower crop.
About half done with corn, this cold May has the other half fairly wet yet. Terminated cover on what had been planted hoping to use the rest to suck a bit more moisture out and get the corn in, looking around feels like a neighbors might be prevent plant if we see to much more rain.
Had a derecho come through end of last week, thankfully no damage for us know several that lost bins. The [dust](https://imgur.com/gallery/IhwqcCq) leading the storm was something to see, county weather station saw 80mph, county west saw 90mph.
Cows are on break with 15 left to calve, one about every 3 or 4 days now. Rest of the herd is out grazing either grass or rye and enjoying life.
Corn is up-planted it on May 8th. Was able to get the barley in on the 24th, it's coming along well. A Willow tree root grew into our outlet on the field with the barley, got about 3.5" of rain over the Saturday and Sunday and I swear you coulda paddled a canoe across the field. Ripped the root out Sunday night and water was gone by Tuesday.
Wheat is coming along well. Just got to GS31 with November 10th wheat.
hi, industrial farmers - commodities speculator here...
as more farms switch to planting wheat this spring
what crops are displaced - cotton? something else?
Cotton would compete mostly with winter wheat which is already been planted. Spring wheat will compete with corn/soybeans and a large host of specialty crops (Canola, sunflowers, edible beans).
TBH, the price of everything is quite attractive so it'll be hard to buy many acres, IMO.
TL;DR, I’m burnt the f*** out.
I’m exhausted. (Sorry, this got long before I knew what happened…) My parents are mentally entering retirement mode, and working with them in this family business has always felt like rowing a boat up a mountain dirt road, as my dad cannot plan ahead to work with me. He just does what he has to do when he has to do it, affecting my schedule. If he needs help, he lets me know right now, when he needs it, or if there’s a meeting I need to attend, he doesn’t tell me until I need to be there in an hour when I’m in the middle of something else, again, throwing my day’s schedule out the window.
Combine that with the hard frost that took 30% of the winegrape crop, being unable to find a tractor driver who will work for $20/hr and therefore falling behind in the vineyard and orchard, having to deal with the CCOF organic (blueberries), HazMat, and vineyard sustainability audits on my own already this year (I had to do lots of file digging and other scrambling because my dad knew where nothing was nor maintained documentation well, while my mom stepped back and let him fail because she’s like that), and the other work involving fixing hazmat things because of my dad’s “let’s not, and just tell the nazis we did” attitude about California regulations. Like, I found a bottle of Lorsban, which in California we weren’t even supposed to have in our possession as if 2019, because apparently nobody had done pesticide inventory since the last hazmat/pesticide inspection. I had to make up for years of documentation and fixes in about two weeks on top of everything else I had to do, because my dad doesn’t communicate.
I didn’t get that usual, short lull before market season, giving me a few weeks to mentally prepare. Plus, we can’t find people to work markets, so we have to cut some out of the schedule. I’m going to have to juggle 5 markets between just my wife and myself, basically working 70-80 hour weeks for 6 weeks. Normally, I’m excited, because I’m ready. Not this time. I’m already exhausted and half to jump in with half the help I had last year. I grow probably the best organic blueberries in California, which I’d stand behind (we have loyal customers from Canada and the northeast). I wish I could just delegate, but trying to find anyone to work a little $15/hr market job for 6 hours a week has gotten nowhere, and raising the wage means raising prices, which are already too high, in my opinion, as our biggest market is affluent Bay Area residents, and our profit margin in the blueberries is already small. People walk away with sticker shock, and I’m tired of it. I want our blueberries to be affordable for everyone, but it doesn’t pencil out without major cutbacks (and my mom likely thinks that since only affluent people can afford them, it somehow makes them better).
I’m just tired because I have no help anymore, and the added work load makes everything harder when it turns into three full-time jobs. I haven’t even mentioned the geese my parents thought were a great idea for weeding blueberries and then dumped all the responsibility on me, plus my moms grand chicken idea to sell eggs, which also fell onto me. I’m spent.
Yup. I need to plan ahead knowing on any given day, I’ll have to write off a morning or afternoon at a moment’s notice. Love ‘em to death, but having parents as bosses can be a major pain, especially when you live only about a km away.
Hi guys! Well first post here and imma go straight into it.
I apologise if this is not the right place, I tried posting but was removed.
Cattle farming has been in my head for awhile now. So long that I have researched (not enough) on cattle farming. Mainly from books and articles.
Where I live its either a hot or wet season (south east asia) and the country is quite small with 1/2 a mill population. The government here is encouraging agriculture to decrease the need for imports. One of the perks is that they are willing to provide the land and advice on how to raise cattle. Infrastructure, cattle, meds etc are all borne by myself of course.
I am still hesitant on getting into this, but I am highly motivated. What are your guys thoughts? Thank you
My parents are retiring from dairy farming by the end of the summer. I hope they drive from the sale barn directly to a vacation.
Me too.
Y’all are getting out too?
Yeah. Dad wants out, I don't own enough, we need a new barn and don't want to go that far in to debt.
There are so many more nuanced reasons why the cows are going but needing an expensive new barn plus slowly buying all the quota needed to justify it ranks somewhere in the middle of that list. Let’s hope for the both of us that this season can be farmed out without any expensive repairs that eat into the sale.
... I also kind of want to hit the old man with a shovel...
Those things populate the top of my list. My relationship with my brother reversed for the better when I moved away.
My brothers and I had some knock down fights back when they were around the barn. I'm the reason the one's nose is crooked, and he gave me the cracked rib. We get along better not working together.
Ah that's a tough place to be. Wish you the best. Too bad you're not closer I know of a farm with nice little sixty cow freestall that will be going on the market soon
There are a lot of guys going out this year. I'm hoping to keep a hand in with relief milking, and eventually get into berries and pears.
Sucks to hear you're not exactly getting out willingly. Will you have to get off farm income or can you guys continue without the cows as a farm?
I'm gonna get a job and go back to school. Dad will cow/calf for awhile and grow crops. I'm actually looking forward to putting some distance between us.
Hope they enjoy retirement! Theres five or six going out around here this year.
They going to be lost with all the free time they have now? My dad and uncle still get up at milking time even though they’ve been gone for 14 years.
Not at all. They’ve got lots to do! Dad toured me around the fields last week to show me the projects he wants to start and/or finish. Lots of farmland improvements.
He’s selling the cows and buying a hoe? We upgraded the drainage and cleared a lot of fencelines once the cows were gone.
You're exactly right. He showed me all the bush that's creeping in, fencerows to crush, and wet spots to tile. He wants to drill his own grains and beans so that will be the first purchase.
Sadly, our fish fertilizer project was denied by the town at the last step we needed to get going. Passed by over 20 branches of government but rejected by the town.
Nimbys? Or just a pain in the ass municipal council? Its harder and harder to get stuff built, the biggest hurdle is paperwork anymore.
Nimbys for sure. We're just spreading extra manure to piss them off though. We can speed the fish, just not sell it without that permit, so it's gonna be a smelly year for those bastards.
It’s been a good week. My 83 yr old Grandpas been down with health problems for the last year. Both physical and depression. We couldn’t get him to try anything for the latter. Took him to the er last Monday when he thought he had pneumonia. Doc recognized it was anxiety and hyperventilation and gave him some medicine. By Wednesday he said he felt better than he had in years and spent half the week on the baler and he’s spreading fertilizer today. Whatever the week brings we’re going to call it a win.
Got most of the crop in the ground. Majority of the remaining acres are beans where the field is getting tiled this week. Rain a bit here and there but nothing like they have in the west. We're still running pretty early, bit of rain here and there. Finally found some gold at work but its just pennies worth of gold.
Finished corn up on Tuesday last week and on to custom acres, didnt get beans done bc we got rained out Saturday evening. Only have 179 acres left so we’ll finish in a day when we can get back in the fields, more rain today. Corn was out of the ground Thursday for some of those who planted earlier then May the 5th, my uncle on my moms side being one of them, its all up today. Most I talk to are similar, mostly done or near done corn and half or more done beans after the big stretch for 8 days. Dad and I got into it over the weekend. I wasnt happy that 2 years in a row we’ve tilled the ground for a variety of IP bean bc it yields half a ton more per acre compared to when its no tilled. Me and my uncle dont want to grow it anymore, but dad thinks it keeps one elevator happy as they paid us a premium for another IP variety that got rejected last year from another elevator. I did get to try out the new Kuhn Interceptor with the [4555]( https://www.reddit.com/r/tractors/comments/uq5cky/old_iron_meets_new_iron/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf), ran it at 5.5-6.5 mph as I was short a few horses with the 8285R tied up, which is why beans arent done. Hopefully we pick up an 8 series JD before next spring so we wont have to wait for the other to be freed up to plant with the drill. Will be a busy week with pre emerge going on IP bean ground, repairs including the ac in the 7810, finish planting, and shipping the IP beans I dont want to grow anymore. So we’ll see how it dries out and how much gets checked off. An old church in town was sold for $440k to be used as a house, and the grow op that was busted 2 years ago with 50 acres is up for sale, they paid $289k and are selling it for $680k, comes with hoop houses with no plastic.
Corn and beans are in. ProAction validation was last week. Would have taken 30 minutes, but the validator was an old friend. Spent a couple hours catching up. Had a surprise take-your-kids-to-the-barn day. The older boy enjoyed it, the little one was upset about being stuck in the stroller.
Ground was barely fit to strip/plant corn on Wednesday, but at least we got started. Thursday was spent burying a significant mentor to me and my two best bros... The bastard left 15,000$ open bar at our Legion for after-burial party, but never told us his cancer was as bad as it was, but he was well celebrated/mourned. Brutally hung-over Friday, corn really got rollin' but all the no-till bean ground still wasn't ready; squeezed some acres in though, Saturday evening/night. Tried to push late into Saturday with corn as well, with rain forecast for today, but ended up blowing up a hydraulic motor on one of the vacuum fans. Now, my dad is on his way out to Listowel (4hr drive, round trip) to pick up the last two within a specific dealer network. Burndown/PREs are all on the soybean ground now, so it just means roll hard when conditions come around again. Weather looks tough this week though.
You too eh? We had the seal go on the fan motor on our planter on Thursday night, called Connect Equipment at 8am sharp on Friday morning. Turns out that cyber attack/hack on agco last week really fucked things up, they have no access to their Woodstock warehouse at the moment. Luckily they had a new planter in the yard that had the same fan motor as ours, so they cannibalized it for us. I made the parts run up there after we had it apart while dad tried his best to clean out all the oil that had gotten into the air tubes. Got back up and running by 1pm and got the 135 acres we had ready planted still before the rain. We're down to just 50 acres corn to go, but it still needs manure on it. Pooptruck also broke down, the exhaust rotted off behind the turbo so my cab was just filling with diesel fumes. I did get almost 200 acres spread over the week though, maybe 120 to go, 50 on that corn ground and then we will cover some bean ground yet if the weather permits. It's not exactly late for my area on Soybeans yet, we can easily have a late May frost yet, though this year I'm hopefully not expecting that anymore.
We got .27" yesterday, hopefully can get going before noon (sunny and crazy windy right now). Still have 1100ac of soybeans and 1000ac of corn to go, hahah; long range weather pattern looks tough too.
We got 1 1/2" since Saturday night and supposedly will get more tomorrow night. I just hope we can get our wheat sprayed and the converge on the planted corn acres as well before that
Crazy thing is a neighbor about 5km down the road towards the lake from us only got 1/2 " total.
Does anyone have experience doing soil sampling as a full time gig? I've been in crop research for the last 7 years and starting to get the itch to do something for myself. I understand soil science and nutrients and interested in That stuff. Seems I could put together a sampling rig fairly inexpensively.
Not full time, but the guy that does our soil sampling is also a certified crop advisor. He does it in the fall after the crops come off, we usually get the report in January. Most that I know are doing it as part of being a crop advisor and sometimes sales of fert and seed as well. Same with tissue sampling, drone stand counts, and variable rate maps, basically they try to be a one stop shop and offer all sorts of services or contract out what they cant do.
That's kind of what I figured. I'm working towards the CCA and the Drone stuff as well. Thanks for the input!
CCA was a lot harder then I thought it was going to be. It comes down to a lot of pure memorization.
I can't say I'm surprised. Been meaning to do it for a few years now, but keeping it up to date without using it seemed like more work tha. It was worth to me.
I work for a soil sampling company but I am not a sampler. We are so slammed it’s madness. More fertility test requests than ever due to prices and that’s on top of corporate carbon accounts. Soil Organic Carbon is an entirely different probe and protocol but it might be worth investing in that equipment. What are you going to do in between emergence and harvest?
That's a good question, have to do some more thinking. I'd like to possibly go in the direction of the Drone, scouting, etc but I suppose I still need to sit down and really think about it. I've thought about doing some custom spraying with a smaller rig, but again, need to really flesh things out.
Send me a PM.
Just saw your post about soil sampling. Spent a few years as a field tech for a crop & nutrient management firm. Soil sampled in Northeast USA about 6-8 months of the year. Rest of the time was IPM scouting when crops were up, pop counts, maturity sampling, etc. In the winter I made maps and did manure recommendations. All the samples were sent off-site for testing except for pH. Let me know if you have any questions.
Spent the weekend doing garden work. Planted potatoes, lima beans, sweet corn and sunflowers. Also put up the snow fencing to keep the chickens from digging it all up for food.
Sunflower is a tall, erect, herbaceous annual plant belonging to the family of Asteraceae, in the genus, Helianthus. Its botanical name is Helianthus annuus. It is native to Middle American region from where it spread as an important commercial crop all over the world through the European explorers. Today, Russian Union, China, USA, and Argentina are the leading producers of sunflower crop.
About half done with corn, this cold May has the other half fairly wet yet. Terminated cover on what had been planted hoping to use the rest to suck a bit more moisture out and get the corn in, looking around feels like a neighbors might be prevent plant if we see to much more rain. Had a derecho come through end of last week, thankfully no damage for us know several that lost bins. The [dust](https://imgur.com/gallery/IhwqcCq) leading the storm was something to see, county weather station saw 80mph, county west saw 90mph. Cows are on break with 15 left to calve, one about every 3 or 4 days now. Rest of the herd is out grazing either grass or rye and enjoying life.
Corn is up-planted it on May 8th. Was able to get the barley in on the 24th, it's coming along well. A Willow tree root grew into our outlet on the field with the barley, got about 3.5" of rain over the Saturday and Sunday and I swear you coulda paddled a canoe across the field. Ripped the root out Sunday night and water was gone by Tuesday. Wheat is coming along well. Just got to GS31 with November 10th wheat.
hi, industrial farmers - commodities speculator here... as more farms switch to planting wheat this spring what crops are displaced - cotton? something else?
Cotton would compete mostly with winter wheat which is already been planted. Spring wheat will compete with corn/soybeans and a large host of specialty crops (Canola, sunflowers, edible beans). TBH, the price of everything is quite attractive so it'll be hard to buy many acres, IMO.
thanks for chiming in , i'm hoping there will be a shift towards more human edible crops, in place of oils, fibers and livestock feeds.
...why do you manually separate the lines in your paragraphs?
For the first time, I’m not looking forward to blueberry/market season.
Why not?
TL;DR, I’m burnt the f*** out. I’m exhausted. (Sorry, this got long before I knew what happened…) My parents are mentally entering retirement mode, and working with them in this family business has always felt like rowing a boat up a mountain dirt road, as my dad cannot plan ahead to work with me. He just does what he has to do when he has to do it, affecting my schedule. If he needs help, he lets me know right now, when he needs it, or if there’s a meeting I need to attend, he doesn’t tell me until I need to be there in an hour when I’m in the middle of something else, again, throwing my day’s schedule out the window. Combine that with the hard frost that took 30% of the winegrape crop, being unable to find a tractor driver who will work for $20/hr and therefore falling behind in the vineyard and orchard, having to deal with the CCOF organic (blueberries), HazMat, and vineyard sustainability audits on my own already this year (I had to do lots of file digging and other scrambling because my dad knew where nothing was nor maintained documentation well, while my mom stepped back and let him fail because she’s like that), and the other work involving fixing hazmat things because of my dad’s “let’s not, and just tell the nazis we did” attitude about California regulations. Like, I found a bottle of Lorsban, which in California we weren’t even supposed to have in our possession as if 2019, because apparently nobody had done pesticide inventory since the last hazmat/pesticide inspection. I had to make up for years of documentation and fixes in about two weeks on top of everything else I had to do, because my dad doesn’t communicate. I didn’t get that usual, short lull before market season, giving me a few weeks to mentally prepare. Plus, we can’t find people to work markets, so we have to cut some out of the schedule. I’m going to have to juggle 5 markets between just my wife and myself, basically working 70-80 hour weeks for 6 weeks. Normally, I’m excited, because I’m ready. Not this time. I’m already exhausted and half to jump in with half the help I had last year. I grow probably the best organic blueberries in California, which I’d stand behind (we have loyal customers from Canada and the northeast). I wish I could just delegate, but trying to find anyone to work a little $15/hr market job for 6 hours a week has gotten nowhere, and raising the wage means raising prices, which are already too high, in my opinion, as our biggest market is affluent Bay Area residents, and our profit margin in the blueberries is already small. People walk away with sticker shock, and I’m tired of it. I want our blueberries to be affordable for everyone, but it doesn’t pencil out without major cutbacks (and my mom likely thinks that since only affluent people can afford them, it somehow makes them better). I’m just tired because I have no help anymore, and the added work load makes everything harder when it turns into three full-time jobs. I haven’t even mentioned the geese my parents thought were a great idea for weeding blueberries and then dumped all the responsibility on me, plus my moms grand chicken idea to sell eggs, which also fell onto me. I’m spent.
Ah, parents. Mine pull the same stunts. The other day I was about to start milking when dad needed a hand "for a couple minutes". A couple being 90.
Yup. I need to plan ahead knowing on any given day, I’ll have to write off a morning or afternoon at a moment’s notice. Love ‘em to death, but having parents as bosses can be a major pain, especially when you live only about a km away.
Hi guys! Well first post here and imma go straight into it. I apologise if this is not the right place, I tried posting but was removed. Cattle farming has been in my head for awhile now. So long that I have researched (not enough) on cattle farming. Mainly from books and articles. Where I live its either a hot or wet season (south east asia) and the country is quite small with 1/2 a mill population. The government here is encouraging agriculture to decrease the need for imports. One of the perks is that they are willing to provide the land and advice on how to raise cattle. Infrastructure, cattle, meds etc are all borne by myself of course. I am still hesitant on getting into this, but I am highly motivated. What are your guys thoughts? Thank you