second year of farming

Well I actually made some seed, wasnt much of a crop but better then a kick in the ask with a frozen boot. I maybe got about 9000 bushels of oats I can sell. The whole year went pretty dang smooth with very little breakdowns, anything that did go wrong was just minor little stuff. I have collected some more farm equipment which is older but in good shape and I dont owe a dime on anything.
The biggest mistake I made this year was not useing weed spray and fertilizer, if I would of used that stuff I would of had a pretty dang good crop.
Im getting some one to spray for weeds on monday then next spring I will spray again. I will be doing soil samples to see what the soil needs for fertilizer this fall and then shop around this winter to find the best price.
Im hopin with a little luck and a few lessons learned that next year might be a little better.

Let's see... 9000 bushels.... 300 cookies per bushel.... 4 tablespoons of chocolate syrup per cookie....

You watch, you go buying weed killer, fertilizer, And next year you will only get 4000 bushels.

Hell, you did better than I did. I think I might stop using all that
weed spray and fertilizer too. I might even make some money. May
even stop buying diesel fuel also.

(quoted from post at 15:51:46 09/22/12) Well I actually made some seed, wasnt much of a crop but better then a kick in the ask with a frozen boot. I maybe got about 9000 bushels of oats I can sell. The whole year went pretty dang smooth with very little breakdowns, anything that did go wrong was just minor little stuff. I have collected some more farm equipment which is older but in good shape and I dont owe a dime on anything.
The biggest mistake I made this year was not useing weed spray and fertilizer, if I would of used that stuff I would of had a pretty dang good crop.
Im getting some one to spray for weeds on monday then next spring I will spray again. I will be doing soil samples to see what the soil needs for fertilizer this fall and then shop around this winter to find the best price.
[b:163ed79763]Im hopin with a little luck and a few lessons learned that next year might be a little better. [/b:163ed79763]

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Hmm,Let's see what other lessons can be learned yet.
Spray in the wrong stage,... heads not filling out,..real chitty crop :shock:
Poor on the fertilizer per soil sample,.oops,.not enuf rain,...chitty crop.
Poor on the fertilizer per soil sample,spray on time,good crop,....chitty prices.
.......Too wet ,...can't harvest,.....to dry,nuthing worth harvesting. :shock: :shock:
......Wet,.able to harvest,..needs to go in the dryer.(got to buy a dryer)bad quality,...chitty prices. :shock:
...early snow,then wet,won't dry,frost..wait till next year. :shock:
......Geese beat ye to it. :shock:

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My dad always tryed to farm on the cheap. Never would put lime or fertalizer on the ground if he thought it didn't need it. Witch was not often. I'm farming the same ground. Every year I take a soil sample in. And, put on what they say the ground needs. My dad never had a corn or soybean crop like I have had. It pays to spend money.

(quoted from post at 19:43:49 09/22/12) My dad always tryed to farm on the cheap. Never would put lime or fertalizer on the ground if he thought it didn't need it. Witch was not often. I'm farming the same ground. Every year I take a soil sample in. And, put on what they say the ground needs. My dad never had a corn or soybean crop like I have had. It pays to spend money.

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Could not agree more. I was in the army when my dad quit farming because of his health. He and my mom let my BIL farm it for 18 years. He fertilized it once in that entire time. Toward the end he couldn't get anything to grow. I told him enough and rented to a pretty good farmer. He's had it for the last 8 years. 5 years of really nice hay, 2 years of good beans and in spite of the dry years 40 BPA of wheat this year. But he spent a good deal of money putting in fertilizer. Now he's amd at me cause even though I told him last year that starting next year I'm farming it myself. With as mad as he is I know he was maning money here.

RIck

All these comments made me think of the farmer who went into the local hardware one Saturday morning, asked the owner how much were the paint brushes on display. Owner says $300 each. "Good, gimme ten." He leaves and in about an hour he was back, bought ten more. After this happened the third time, the owner quietly followed the farmer to the door and watched. The farmer was selling the brushes 2 for $5.00. Hardware owner goes outside and tells the farmer, "Look, it's none of my business, but you do realize that you are losing 50 cents on every brush you sell, don't you? Farmer looked at him and said, "Well, it still beats farming!"

He may be making money now, but he had to put alot of money into that field to get it where it is today.He may be ------ about both aspects. He put money into it, figuring he could make it back in the following years. If you didn't make an aggrement with him regarding how long he could rent it though, he assumed wrong and ain't happy about it.

Nope he was told more than a year ago that this year was it. And I know he fertilized lite because of that. He is a town kid who dreamed of farming. I have to give him credit because he's been far more successful than some farm boys who inherited everything and has worked darn hard to get where he is. He farms over 1000 acres and on land he owns has 500 under irrigation. Not too shabby for a guy who grew up poor and got his start working for a tire service place. He then started his own tire service and then bought a farmstead. He and his wife started farming with 16 acres owned with a decent barn milking 40 cows. He was working his tire service business, milking in the morning with his wife and then "going to work". When he got home he worked the fields to raise his feed for his cows. In the winter he worked on his equipment at night geting it ready for the next year. When he was making enough on the farm to support his family and pay for operations he sold the tire service and dumped that money back into the farm. Now he thinks he should be able to farm everything. I guess he sucked me in for a few years and I thought of him as a friend but now he has shown his true colors.


Yea I'm venting! I thought that after 20 years of military service I could spot a phoney! Guess I'm madder at me for getting sucked in! You can bet I'll tell anyone I know not to rent to him! He's still a good farmer.

Rick