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Hey guys! I have been a seldom poster and stay mostly behind the scenes here soaking up the information and enjoying all the farming pics.

I have just acquired my first parcel of ground.. 20 acres in rural SE MO ( I am 25 and have been around farming my entire life )... The ground has been row cropped for years and has always produced well for our area ( average 40bpa beans / 170+ corn )... I want to of course make as much $$ as possible off this ground which is entirely farmable except for about 2 acres for a house and yard that I plan to start this fall. I was wondering what you guys recommend that would produce the most income.

I currently have the following equipment:
1955 JD 60
1972 IH 966
A couple discs
Feild Cultivator
Chisel Plow
4 Row IH 56 planter

I lack a drill for wheat, etc, a combine and grain truck... Would you guys recommend continuing to row crop this, rent it our, look into cattle ???

Any and all ideas are welcome...

Thanks for all your help!
 
I would say cattle would not be the most profitable. Marijuana would probably be the most income per acre but carries a high risk! I'd say continue with a corn soybean rotation and hire someone to combine and truck it for ya. Combines are pretty expensive machines... even the small ones. However you could pick up an old small decent machine and do it yourself it that is what you desire and it wouldn't be too pricey if you check it out very carefully.
 
What is the hay market in your area ? Corn/bean on that small acreage is risky at best, so if practical hay with someone else cutting/baling is my suggestion.
 
GEJD60,

I live in Middle Tennessee about 40 miles south of Nashville. Around here, about the only small farmers that are making any money are doing it through offering services rather than commodities. We have a bunch of farms that board and/or train horses. We have a couple of pick-ur-own blueberry farms that do well. There are a couple of pick-ur-own pumpkin patches. There are a couple of corn mazes, etc. All of these farms capitalize on agri-tourism.

I don't know anything about where you are located, but if there is anything that you can do to draw people to your farm and then extract their money from them while they're there, I think you'll make much more money than you will farming it just for commodities.

Good luck,

Tom in TN
 
I would fence the property for rotational grazing and find a local dairyman that you can feed some heifers for. You might need to come up with a cheap drill to establish a stand and something to mow the grass down when it needs to be done. But there is a bit of money to be made in a situation like yours doing this. There are 2 guys in my town that have small farms that have done this. In the spring they reserve part of the pasture to cut and bale 1st cut, then they return the heifers to all paddocks for the remainder of the season. As grass gets short in the fall they then use the hay baled at first cut, to stretch the season.
 
Plant a corn maze if theres not one close already there.Charge a low enough admission price where kids will come,but high enough to make it worthwhile especially if you are close to an interstate and can put a sign up by the interstate,and that might make more than either crops or cows.If it doesnt work you can still pick the corn.
 
Plant a corn maze if theres not one close already there.Charge a low enough admission price where kids will come,but high enough to make it worthwhile especially if you are close to an interstate and can put a sign up by the interstate,and that might make more than either crops or cows.If it doesnt work you can still pick the corn.
 
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