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I am a full time farmer.Small operator.&75(this year) acres corn,bout the same hay,5-10 acres small grain.All furrow irrigated.No livestock.Do custom work for extra income.Run all IH tractors from SC to a 1256.Also have 4(45;55;95;105) JD combines.
 
I farm part time. I have beef cattle and row crops. Very small operation compared to today's standards. I am proud of what I have though.
Kow Farmer
 
Totally retarred used-to-be phull-time pharmer/cattleman. 1000 acres diversified row-crop; little less than 300 mama cows (commercial beef cattle......cow/calf).......nearly all rented/leased land.
 
i raise beef cattle Limo/Black Angus mix on 100 acres...do land/fencerow clearing and building site prep work to keep cattle afloat...dont sound like much but its all paid for.
 
At one time I had about 25 ewes 60 sows and 75 cows.

Livestock is all gone.

Just a full time grain farmer now.

Mostly my own but also do some custom planting and combining.

Gary
 
Work off the farm full time, but run 50 cow/calf pairs, make about 1,000 round bales of hay, and about 20 acres of corn and or oats each year. (have summer months off from off-farm job)
 
About 125 acres or so corn soybeans and hay worked off the farm 20 years until the carrier factory closed up do some farm equipment AC repair now. It's all I need all my equipment and land are paid for.
 
Part timer here. Few acres of dark air cured tobacco, few sows, enough cows to keep one bull busy, big garden, and a few acres of corn and soybeans.

Got a great night job, work 12 hour shifts, three nights one week, four the next. Pays enough to keep the critters fed and enough time durr'n the day to see after them.

Dave
 
I live on 40 acres. about half is planted in timber, mostly so I don't have to bush hog it. :p

I do a small garden, about 1 acre, mostly corn and potatoes. Thinking about going bigger next year.

I'm also considering getting into chickens.

I'm more of a hobby farmer than anything. I usually give away most of what I grow to friends and family. I just like having an excuse to be outside and get dirty.
 
78 acres in grass, trying to switch part of it to bermuda (weather, $, time permitting), cut and bail 1-2/year. Sell locally, most to repeat customers. Part time operation.
 
5th generation dairy farm, started in 1901. Own 560 acres, own and rent 345 crop acres. Hay, corn, and oats... occasionally a few acres of rye or barley.
 
If raising sheep, the hay they eat, and the oats, I guess I qualify. Any handicrafters out there interested in buying various wool products? Fleeces, roving, wool quilt bats, handspun yarn, and knitted products?

Farm has been in family since 1907. Grandfather, dad and I have owned it.
 
Still have 5 acres of the 80 I grew up on. Rent another 40 or so. Mostly hay. Just enough corn and oats to feed a few chickens, couple pigs and a couple feeders. Enough so I can still play with my tractors and pretend I'm still a farmer. I build pallets for a couple small shops to support my habit.
 
Live on my great great grand parents farm (100 acres). Raise 20 cow calf pairs and rent another 200 acres for hay to sell over the winter. Raise a large garden and keep the place cleaned up. Everything is paid for except my gator, so life is great.
Like to attend about 6-8 garden tractor plowing events a year and build a few custom plows. (Wizard Plow Works)
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All depends on what you call farming. If you call farming doing hay and having Horses goats chickens ducks and geese farming I still do a little. I have 44 acres. 2 horses one pony that I have for the fertilizer for my garden and 4 goats which my wife has for the milk and a few chickens for the eggs. I put up enough hay each year to be able to sell it so the cost of having the animals come out to around zero if not a small profit
 
I do 30+ acres mixed alfalfa and timothy and still have 4 horses on my place. Use all Oliver equipment. I own 6.5 acres, rest is really cheap rent so I don't want to give it up.
I'll be 70 in sept. and it's just enough to keep me from getting too old and lazy....plus or minus 3000 sm squares/year

Larry NE IL
 
I have 175 acres running 32 beef cows. Also, I raise a few hogs every year. Also have chickens, ducks, etc. for fun. None of it makes much profit (if any), so I guess it's technically just a hobby farm. Working full-time days off the farm makes putting up hay the worst part of the opertaion.
 
Part-time on 150 acres of rough, hilly ground. About 50 acres of woods, 20 acres hay ground, and the rest pasture and home place.

I raise about 25 - 30 cow/calf pairs (right now I have 28 momma cows and two springing heifers - 37 head total with calves and bull).

Put up 2500 small squares each summer to feed during the winter.

No debt - old junky equipment.

Tom in TN
 
(quoted from post at 07:09:17 04/18/12) Who in here farms? How many acres do you have or what kind of animals do you have and what crops do you grow!?!
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Produce farmer here in eastern WA, sell direct to the public without leaving the farm. Usually plant about 6 acres....all my wife and I can handle. Have a whole herd of AC tractors and do some custom work on the side.
 
Hi Eldon! What town do you live near? I am up SE of Spokane.

6 Acres of garden would be a lot of work! I don"t think I could possibly make a living on my property like that, due to a short growing season. I live at about 2500" elevation and ALWAYS have to plan on the possibility of frost in June and sometimes as early as the first week of September. I have a small garden by my house, but never sell any produce. I sometimes give some away. Where I live, it is imperative that a garden have at least a 6 foot mesh fence, or the deer will take everything. I have also recently had some trouble with rabbits, which apparently someone released a few years ago.

Good luck with your gardening. I admire anyone willing to work that hard!
 
A little of everything. Part-time with my dad on a 1000 acre corn/soy/hay farm with hogs and cattle. I also do vegetables to farmer's markets as well with a couple acres at my place and the rest with the other family. Newest tractor is 25 years old.
 
(quoted from post at 10:26:42 04/18/12) Hi Eldon! What town do you live near? I am up SE of Spokane.

6 Acres of garden would be a lot of work! I don"t think I could possibly make a living on my property like that, due to a short growing season. I live at about 2500" elevation and ALWAYS have to plan on the possibility of frost in June and sometimes as early as the first week of September. I have a small garden by my house, but never sell any produce. I sometimes give some away. Where I live, it is imperative that a garden have at least a 6 foot mesh fence, or the deer will take everything. I have also recently had some trouble with rabbits, which apparently someone released a few years ago.

Good luck with your gardening. I admire anyone willing to work that hard!
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Hal! You've been to my place....I hauled a Ford engine from Jim in UT for you a few years back.....
 
160 acres. corn, soybean and wheat rotation. main livestock is my spoiled blue heeler "squeak"
been on this farm since my 6th birthday. took over from my dad in 1988. 51 years here in the farm house that was built in 1871.
 
Ah - I slightly misread that, thought you had a 45 year old dog on the farm! :) Got it when I reread it. I talk & write that way too, English teachers have a word for us... :)

--->Paul
 
S.E. MT., on powder river. Medium size cow/calf operation. Close to 700 acres irrigated alfalfa/grass hay. Some dryland hay when the weather cooperates. Also raise some wheat, but are slowly getting out of that end of the business. Ken
 
33 acres x 700 trees/acre. I try to manage this on the weeknights and weekends around my other job.

Rick
 
Put up hay, bale a few wagons of straw, raise a handful of cows and around 40 meat goats. Mainly just play with old equipment.
 
I grow 10 acres of corn on my farm, still cleaning up the other 40, and leased another 80 acres this year. Gonna try some soybeans, and once I can get off the road, ill get a few cows again. I'm in the big "metropolis" of London KY, where is your dairy? Only a couple left around here
 
I hobby farm my families place. 30 acres tillabale and 30 acres of woods, buildings house and pasture. Nothing in the ground but weeds right now but this fall tillage raddishes and next spring will be wheat.

Leonard
 
I have around 300 acres, 200 is tillable, the rest is forest and hills. Square bale hay off the grass. Have rental properties, single unit, and the hay is a way to distance myself from them.
 
Thanks for sharing, got 13 units of them, too, in addition to my day job....now in my 40s, I am pondering the purpose of life....what to keep,do, what not......wife thinks that cloning me for the 3 "FT" jobs is too risky for her, she claims she can't even handle one of me well....LOL
 
50 acres of corn and beans enough for the deer and to have a legitimate excuse for having tractors.
Ron
 
50 acres another 75 rented on a handshake, sold the dairy herd 3 yrs ago when it cost me twice as much to make as i got for it , only milked 45 but it still bled me out quickly, eight kids and it was really hard to express the point of farming when they saw all the struggling we did. so pulled the plug and now just sell the feed . presently a bit profitable by a poor farmers standards ,we eat and can afford to put gas in the tank now but thats about all. never had one of those vacation thingys every one talks about. oh ya did i mention i really love my life and wouldnt trade it for a million bucks
 
April Fool"s Day started our 41st year after better half and I started from scratch- no home farm to take over, and she"s city raised. Bought 3 farms over the years, still have 400 acres, no livestock, rent out over 300, farm the rest. Peaked years ago at 75 dairy cows, 36 sows, 732 acres land. There is life after dairy 24/7/365 for 30 years. Best part is 6 kids (that still like, talk to, and work with each other) and 12 GK. Better half just finished chemo, prognosis looks good, and I might get a second hip that was put off after her issues started last year.
 
Thanks for sharing, JMS. Tell your wife to keep her spirits up, there is definetly life after chemo, cancer!
Ralph in Oklahoma, survivor: 5 yrs, 7 months, and 12 days!
 
Used to farm with my brother milking cows, farmed our two farms and rented four neighbor farms, baled lots of hay to sell too. Brother still milking cows but I got a regular job and still live on the farm that I am fourth generation.
 
can't get it out of my system, work a full time job and small farmer corn, soybeans,peanuts,and little milo and hay for livestock, i reckon time will take care of the want to after a while as old head is about gray,thank GOD i've had good health and lived long enough to see it gray
 
OK, now I remember you. Did you have a different handle a few years ago? Thanks again for hauling that engine...I still have it in reserve, since my old original dieselengine just keeps on working.

About 60 years ago, my Dad had a chicken farm with several thousand layers and also did some truck gardening in the Greenacres area. My parents worked very hard at trying to farm, but didn"t have enough income from the farm to really "make it". My Dad worked at various other jobs and my Mom taught school some of the time to keep them going. Pretty rough times financially for my family. After about 10 years of trying, we moved off that acreage and lived in the more urban area of old Greenacres. In 1959, my Parents were able to buy the small ranch South of the Valley, and I finished growing up there. I still live on 20 acres of that property.

When I was a little kid, there were large gardens all over the Spokane Valley. Gardens did very well there, and there was a well developed ditch water system that brought water from Liberty and Newman Lakes to many areas of the eastern part of the valley. But with many people gardening in that area, I suppose that selling produce was a problem, since everybody had some. The gardens we had were really incredibly productive.

Later the ditch water systems were all removed and pressurized piped water became what was available for irrigation. And more and more areas of the Valley became filled with houses, instead of gardens or orchards. It is a real shame that this incredibly productive farming area is now wasted on suburban housing. But that is the way it is.

I still think that 6 acres of garden is a whole lot of garden! It would be really hard to keep ahead of the weeds in that big of a plot. I sure hate Morning Glory!

One last thing. Lots of the Eastern part of the Valley had apple orchards on it years ago. In those days they used sprays that included arsenic and other heavy metals to control insects that bothered apples. Unlike the organic sprays that came later, the heavy metals tend not to break down over time. If your ground used to be an orchard, you might want to do soil tests to see if there are heavy metals there that might come back to cause you trouble in your for sale produce. Hope that concern is not a reality, and your gardens do great. Good to reconnect with you again. Hal.
 
290 acers and 100 holsteins counting heifers and steers.All of my tractors are older than me.The 4020's will still be running good long after I am gone(if there is any oil left in the world)LOL
 
Besides working a full time city job,we farm about 200 acres. Corn,hay, wheat, oats and beans.
Livestock includes;holsein feeder calves,a few pigs,60+ head of goats,LLahmas,chickens,guineas,and peacocks.Most of the farming is done with,IH M and H.Case 970,400,300,730,Dc and SC.Not alot of time left for anything else! LOL!!! Doug
 
I have 280 ewes on 390 acres, 150 of which is cleared, in Northeastern Ontario. Land is in hay and pasture, and plow some every year and plant oats for greenfeed. Uncleared land is a little bit of bush, a lot of swamp and moose pasture. Farm fulltime, but mostly live on my wife's good job. Newest tractor is 29 yrs old.
 
I farmed about 2300 acres of corn when was younger. Did everything by myself except neighbor harvested for me. Ran a steiger cougar, allis 210 and a massey ferguson 175. Now I work a full time job, 40 cows on 210 acres. Do a little custom hay baling. Now I have a MF 175, 135, 1085, IH966, a super A, JD4440, and a JD4630. I love farming but will never take another big risk again.
 

Hobby farmer, used to have sheep now I sell the hay to horse people. About 4,000 bales from about 50 acres down from about 95. Poor crops due to little rain the last three years, despite being forecast almost constantly.
 
Full time, now. Retired from phone company 10 years ago when I part timed. I raise 80-100 Angus on 300 acres, about 75 owned. Generally around 150 acres of hay, 75 corn, a few acres of beans or wheat. The fun has been building all of this- I came out of the Navy in '73 with literally nothing. It feels good to look out a window in the morning, and feel you have done something your ex-MIL said you couldn't do.
 
have 175 acres, raise 100 acres corn and soybeans apx 25 acres of hay,rest is timber and paster. 2 steers, 4 horses. working on starting to run some cattle and re-fence 30-40 acres. tractors are ih or case and redid my dads old mf 65 and grandpa's VAC.
we are the 5th gen on my grandads farm.
 
Hobby farming count? Like the elbow room and open air. Hate the poverty, risk and long hours so I work a job to support the habit.
 
8 acres of soybeans this year. Retired, part time, & I'm the smallest farmer in Branch County. Gonna quit after I get rich!!
 
(quoted from post at 17:07:29 04/18/12) OK, now I remember you. Did you have a different handle a few years ago? Thanks again for hauling that engine...I still have it in reserve, since my old original dieselengine just keeps on working.

About 60 years ago, my Dad had a chicken farm with several thousand layers and also did some truck gardening in the Greenacres area. My parents worked very hard at trying to farm, but didn"t have enough income from the farm to really "make it". My Dad worked at various other jobs and my Mom taught school some of the time to keep them going. Pretty rough times financially for my family. After about 10 years of trying, we moved off that acreage and lived in the more urban area of old Greenacres. In 1959, my Parents were able to buy the small ranch South of the Valley, and I finished growing up there. I still live on 20 acres of that property.

When I was a little kid, there were large gardens all over the Spokane Valley. Gardens did very well there, and there was a well developed ditch water system that brought water from Liberty and Newman Lakes to many areas of the eastern part of the valley. But with many people gardening in that area, I suppose that selling produce was a problem, since everybody had some. The gardens we had were really incredibly productive.

Later the ditch water systems were all removed and pressurized piped water became what was available for irrigation. And more and more areas of the Valley became filled with houses, instead of gardens or orchards. It is a real shame that this incredibly productive farming area is now wasted on suburban housing. But that is the way it is.

I still think that 6 acres of garden is a whole lot of garden! It would be really hard to keep ahead of the weeds in that big of a plot. I sure hate Morning Glory!

One last thing. Lots of the Eastern part of the Valley had apple orchards on it years ago. In those days they used sprays that included arsenic and other heavy metals to control insects that bothered apples. Unlike the organic sprays that came later, the heavy metals tend not to break down over time. If your ground used to be an orchard, you might want to do soil tests to see if there are heavy metals there that might come back to cause you trouble in your for sale produce. Hope that concern is not a reality, and your gardens do great. Good to reconnect with you again. Hal.
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I think I was still busy building my house when you were here...only been working the land for 5 years now, wife quit her job last year to help me out. Business has been good.....knock on wood! Met some old timers that said they farmed veggies on this place back in the 50's, so I guess we took the land back to its roots.
 
Pop and I farm east of Omaha (in Iowa). He is full-time, I am part-time. We raise corn, beans, and hay for crops. We have a forty-some-odd cow/calf herd from which we fatten our own calves. My boy will be the 5th generation on the place. I bought 80 acres a few years ago to add to the previous generations' accumulation. We also have a 30-tree fruit orchard with apples, pears, plums, cherries, grapes, apricots, and peaches. We top that off with enough chickens for eggs and Sunday dinners and the usual collection of cats and rats and bats, etc.
 
Help a neighbor and his son in law. I also work a fulltime job in town. We farm 1200acres of corn and soybeans and farrow to finish about 7600 hogs a year. We have 150 bred sows 12 months a year. We also raise show pigs. All of us are very busy.
 
Just getting started, 40 acres of hay ground on a handshake lease, trying to get something built up of my own. I`m 26 and working full time at farming, though next winter I will probably go back to trucking to make money before spring. Just missed out on purchasing 160 acres, so looking for more lease ground. Looking at getting into grains and some vegetable production in the near future, more money per acre, but one step at a time.
 
I've got 30, quit my day job 6 years ago to take care of them. They can be a pain, but make decent money. Like I said farm is a way to get away.
 
(quoted from post at 07:09:17 04/18/12) Who in here farms? How many acres do you have or what kind of animals do you have and what crops do you grow!?!
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Call it farming??? We both work full time and breed/raise Foundation Bred Quarterhorses and a couple litters of Australian Sheperds a year on about 8 acres of pasture scattered all around town, put up enough hay for a snack for them on another 6 or so acres and support the local farmers as much as possible by buying hay, barley, and a little corn from them. Not a big money maker, but keeps us out of debt and lets us eat out and travel a little. And the pride/satisfaction of of producing some nice, levelheaded horses... To each thier own....
 
(quoted from post at 07:09:17 04/18/12) Who in here farms? How many acres do you have or what kind of animals do you have and what crops do you grow!?!
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pretty much hobby farm for us. grandparents were "gentleman" farmer my grandpa worked for the power company and they used to have a small 10 cow dairy back in the late 40's/50's and grow some veggies on 55ac. then my dad got into beef and we still raise some beef herfords and belted galloway, square bale about 15ac keep enough for our use and sell some to horse people and we purchase some baleage for feed during the winter, used to grow some corn for silage but it got to be more of a hasel than it was worth. i also started a small maple sugaring operation which besides running equipment/tractors is my favorite "hobby". my wife and i live off the farm on 2ac and grow a large garden and raise a few hens/meat birds for her ethnic employees. i worked full time for the phone company for 13yrs then they thought its time to cut some heads so last in 1st out union rules i got the boot. now i'm splitting time between electrical work, milking/cropwork for a dairy and our hobby farm. we use alot of older equipment but have 1 newer 15yr old tractor and we still have the original tractor grandpa purchased an old jd h hand start.
 
Dad and I part time farm. We both work full time day jobs. We have 135 acre farm and 20 acres at my house. We raise beef cattle mostly. We plant 5-10 acres of corn for feed and a few animal food plots. We cut several of the neighbors fields for hay each year. Roll about 200 round bales for ourselves and do a little custom hay rolling when we get a chance.

It's really becoming time consuming and no time for anything else. Plus, it does good to break even at the end of the year. I would like to work the whole farm up and make it one big deer/turkey food plot and forget the cows.
 
Thanks, JMS. It shows who really cares about you and who says they do......
...checked in on a Wednesday pm for surgery at 4:20pm, got to go home on the following Tuesday: Whenever my wife was not there, I was never alone, friends, aquaintances, fellow workers, all came by to relieve her,daytime, nite time, take her to lunch, etc....Some drove 2-3 hrs one way to get to Oklahoma City to be there for us... very touching (left kids and my mom out, don't have any (that I know of ...LOL) and she lives in Germany, came 4 weeks later for a couple months instead.....)
Anyways, glad you both have a good support system: She needs it, but don't forget yourself, it can be even harder on caregiver/family member. Less physical, but more mentally/psychologically stressing.
Have a beautiful and blessed weekend! Ralph in Oklahoma.
PS: email is always open.
 
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