Re: Farming an acre with old stuff

Posted by RN on April 19, 2016 at 11:32:16 from (205.213.104.118):

In Reply to: Farming an acre with old stuff posted by tracto-man on April 19, 2016 at 08:27:12:

sweet corn, some edible beans- make a BIG garden. Plow and disk you've got or are getting, planter you know you need- but a compact 2 row may be more than a old 4 row-- lots of the slightly older JD ground drive single units on tool bars- some people buy 8 row rigs for $200.00 to $500.00 and make 3 or 4 two row units for the deer plotters and gardeners, sell for $200.00 to $500.00 per 2 row unit, make 300% of cost- 200% profit when small parts, stock steel bars and welding rods figured in base cost. Want some excersize?- use a GardenWay small planter and walk the rows with a hoe the first year, the get a quick mount 1 or 2 row cultivator on tool bar, single or 2 row ground drive planter- old Cole or Yetter/JD unit. Old Ns in some areas had a cultivator on tool bar for 3 pt with sliding prongs that would get a single planter in center- plant and do some weed control first pass, lift or remove center planter and do 2 more passes with cultivator, have wide row and do hand harvest of corn and some beans- old style corn picking with large bag - a relatively slow 1/2 to 1 acre harvest by hand in a couple 3 to 4 hour sessions. for staggered sweet corn harvest- 1/4 acre in morning hand strip and toss in large green house wagon a yard wide, 2 yards long or thereabouts in the old horses @ss wide 42 inch standard rows. Have a good stout fence and turn in couple sheep / couple hogs to glean at end of garden season, then have Christmas ham and/or roast mutton when snow falls. Culivator for Ford Ns not as good as front mount IHC for Cubs or A's- but good enough for many southern tobacco farms that had large gardens and some hay ground on side of limited tobacco allotment in larger farm land. Cultivator instead of larger sprayer, mix some sweet corn, old Reeds Yellow dent for green corn use on table and some beans in side rows- 2 years of doing old way and then a tiller might be considered- but proper cultivator and simple planter, timed planting for table use and leftover gleaning by the venison- moderate cost, decent return for table and some side money. For some people documented sales of farm produce of a certain minimum results in a much lower tax rate for agriculture use compared to 'developement' land. 2 tractors and a plow already- rad the gardening posts from the New Jersey posters, consider turnips for a couple seconds. <--- Teasing Alert! RN

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