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Joe Styke

04-08-2007 05:10:50




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Guys, Getting ready to purchase 20 acres for hobby farm. Do not want to be tied down daily with livestock---swore I would never milk again and have kept the promise-- but ground lays good and is fertile. What is my best revenue producing alternative?




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Joe Styke

04-08-2007 16:41:06




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 Re: Farming 20 actes in reply to Joe Styke, 04-08-2007 05:10:50  
thanks Guys---a lot to ponder!



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davpal

04-08-2007 11:48:54




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 Re: Farming 20 actes in reply to Joe Styke, 04-08-2007 05:10:50  
Only thing you have to remember is farming 20 acres you still need almost all the same amount of equipment if you are farming much more. You basically still need a tractor, some form of planter, would be much more simple to use all no till. Otherwise you also need to buy some form of tillage equipment, disk, plow, cultimulcher, field cultivator or an array of things. You also need a combine to harvest and wagons to haul crops to elevator, and a pickup to pull them. I was explaining this to a friend of mine that just wanted to do some deer plots. He found out he needed a lot of stuff to do just that. I would get a few old pieces of equipment that will work, and grow some soybeans. If the field is fairly level you may consider a no till planter and a nice sprayer for roundup. Sounds like fun. Good luck.

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Dave H (MI)

04-08-2007 13:02:01




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 Re: Farming 20 actes in reply to davpal, 04-08-2007 11:48:54  
Just a point to ponder, but is not the no till stuff really expensive still? I was under the impression that you could buy a whole yard full of small tillage equipment for a lot less than you could buy one good piece of no-till equipment.
I had also thought that a lot of the no-till equipment was for the larger and newer tractors.
Wrong again?



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Sam in Mi

04-08-2007 16:42:58




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 Re: Farming 20 actes in reply to Dave H (MI), 04-08-2007 13:02:01  
We used to pull a 4 row no-till planter with a 1650 Oliver on rolling fields. Now pull a 6 row with a 4240 JD. I would say that is 20 more horse than we need. The 15 foot 750 drill is a nice match for the 4430, but that is probably also bigger than necessary.

Sam



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Walt Davies

04-08-2007 11:24:10




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 Re: Farming 20 actes in reply to Joe Styke, 04-08-2007 05:10:50  
Pot



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Walt Davies

04-08-2007 11:25:56




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 Re: Farming 20 actes in reply to Walt Davies, 04-08-2007 11:24:10  
OOP! that's not legal.
Walt



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Dave from MN

04-08-2007 09:23:45




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 Re: Farming 20 actes in reply to Joe Styke, 04-08-2007 05:10:50  
I disagree with renting it out, IF you have time and rescources. Get a product that not the norm. look at growing native wild flowers, sell the seed at local stores, internet, or with 20 acres contact a landscaper of 2. It is in high demand and will be for some time. Sweetcorn. grow it , pick it, sell it by the cob cooked at local events. We got $2 a cob ready to eat last year. Made more in 1 day of 1 acre than I get for rent on 23 acres. You cab do strawberries, rasberries, asparagas. You name it. Put in oats, sell the straw in nice cute bails to horse and small animal lovers. Sell the oats or exchange it for harvest cost. If you manage risk and $$$ and make sure expenses are justified and have a decent ROI, you will be money ahead. I really hat eit when people say "rent it" You dont know it you dont try. Big farms are in it for the joy of it. They are in it for the profit.

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MF Poor

04-08-2007 08:07:10




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 Re: Farming 20 actes in reply to Joe Styke, 04-08-2007 05:10:50  
Most profitable use of farm land? Lease it to someone else. Let them do all the work, take all the risk, and make chicken feed for income. You get a check no matter what sort of growing season.



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rrlund

04-08-2007 07:17:49




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 Re: Farming 20 actes in reply to Joe Styke, 04-08-2007 05:10:50  
I don't think it's legal to grow the "most profitable" crop. Although somebody tried on me two years ago. State police task force found it from a heliopter. :)



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Leland

04-08-2007 06:39:13




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 Re: Farming 20 actes in reply to Joe Styke, 04-08-2007 05:10:50  
plant it in something that will attrack birds like doves and ducks and geese people pay 50-100.00 per day to hunt anymore .



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Don L C

04-08-2007 10:25:22




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 Re: Farming 20 actes in reply to Leland, 04-08-2007 06:39:13  
Check with your county agent-- a friend of mine here in Ohio is beeing paid not to farm, but to care for wild life.....



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hay

04-08-2007 06:27:38




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 Re: Farming 20 actes in reply to Joe Styke, 04-08-2007 05:10:50  
pumpkins, watermelons, sweet corn.



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Midwest redneck

04-08-2007 06:07:40




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 Re: Farming 20 actes in reply to Joe Styke, 04-08-2007 05:10:50  
I am paying $7/100 lbs for corn for my stove. That is screened and dryed. I have heard of guys on this site say that pumpkins will make some money too.



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4010guy

04-08-2007 05:28:43




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 Re: Farming 20 actes in reply to Joe Styke, 04-08-2007 05:10:50  
C R P ;o)



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