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Official OB Farm Thread
Posted on 6/19/17 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 6/19/17 at 12:24 pm
I'm curious to see how many farmers we have on the OB and what kind of farming they practice.
Let's loosely define farming as a commercial operation involving the production of agricultural products. Sales and support industries are welcome to join in.
If you feel obliged, tell the board generally where you farm, your crops, and anything else
I'll go first, I farm sugarcane, soybeans, and sometimes wheat along the river in south LA with my inlaws.
We are a larger cane farm but are fairly centralized.
Cane is the main Ag product but we fallow plant beans in the fallow rotation.
Any other cane farmers in here?
Let's loosely define farming as a commercial operation involving the production of agricultural products. Sales and support industries are welcome to join in.
If you feel obliged, tell the board generally where you farm, your crops, and anything else
I'll go first, I farm sugarcane, soybeans, and sometimes wheat along the river in south LA with my inlaws.
We are a larger cane farm but are fairly centralized.
Cane is the main Ag product but we fallow plant beans in the fallow rotation.
Any other cane farmers in here?
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Posted on 6/19/17 at 12:38 pm to stewie
I'm on farmersonly.com, does that count ?
Posted on 6/19/17 at 12:43 pm to stewie
I have a farm in name only as my LLC. Kinda looking to start planting some stuff soon though. Just don't have enough experience with large amounts of planting.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 12:50 pm to stewie
We tree farmers
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:21 pm to stewie
Working for the man now so I can hopefully buy some land and start raising some cattle in the future. It's tough to get in to when you're starting out with zero acres, zero equipment, and all you own is school debt 
Posted on 6/19/17 at 1:35 pm to stewie
I work in Ag and recreational land lending. Commodity prices and land values have slowed my business quite a bit.
Posted on 6/19/17 at 3:18 pm to stewie
In the same boat as downshift. Hopefully will have the land in the next two yrs.
Family at one time had a very large cattle operation but no longer unfortunately. My dream is to raise cattle and farm for a living so if any of yall have single daughters Im looking.
Family at one time had a very large cattle operation but no longer unfortunately. My dream is to raise cattle and farm for a living so if any of yall have single daughters Im looking.
This post was edited on 6/19/17 at 3:20 pm
Posted on 6/19/17 at 7:22 pm to stewie
Not a farmer but just bought 130 acres that has around 100 acres of recently thinned planted pine. So I guess I could be a tree farmer if I wanted to and I just bought a 47hp kubota to complete the weekend warrior get up
Posted on 6/19/17 at 9:11 pm to stewie
Whitetail deer and getting into exotics
Posted on 6/19/17 at 10:10 pm to stewie
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This post was edited on 6/20/17 at 9:47 pm
Posted on 6/20/17 at 9:14 am to stewie
I farm twice a year (Apr. and Oct.) when we worm and vaccinate all of our cattle and castrate and brand our calves. Plus putting out hay and feeding cubes during the winter.
In total I really farm hard/bust my arse about 20 days out of the year.
The benefit comes though when we go to see my mom where we keep the cows. We go out there most weekends. It's rewarding to "check the cows", or show them off to friends and family. Most people are stunned when they see them in real life the first time.
Here are some pics I've taken this year that I haven't posted here.
I took this picture of my kids sitting on the front porch...
In total I really farm hard/bust my arse about 20 days out of the year.
The benefit comes though when we go to see my mom where we keep the cows. We go out there most weekends. It's rewarding to "check the cows", or show them off to friends and family. Most people are stunned when they see them in real life the first time.
Here are some pics I've taken this year that I haven't posted here.
I took this picture of my kids sitting on the front porch...
This post was edited on 6/20/17 at 9:17 am
Posted on 6/20/17 at 3:35 pm to stewie
Have 24 head of beef cattle. That's about it. Id like to get to the point where that's all I have to worry about but having a job and then trying to "fix" 360 acres that been neglected for years is very time consuming and more expensive than I can afford
Posted on 6/20/17 at 4:23 pm to stewie
I manage 3750 acres of cotton, corn, and sometimes soybeans. Oh, and half an acre of sweet corn.
Some years it's great, some years are a little tough, but I seem to have more good than bad. I enjoy the hell out of it, and am waiting on the right piece of ground to come up around us that I can start my own little thing.
If you want to make it, you need to be an observant land manager, have a grasp of "the numbers," be efficient with equipment, aggressive with NPK and lime, and have a plan. If you can handle all that, and accept that you're a 15 minute hail storm away from a disaster, you'll be alright. I'm a little more chilled out than most though.
eta: I'm in the SE MS Delta.
Some years it's great, some years are a little tough, but I seem to have more good than bad. I enjoy the hell out of it, and am waiting on the right piece of ground to come up around us that I can start my own little thing.
If you want to make it, you need to be an observant land manager, have a grasp of "the numbers," be efficient with equipment, aggressive with NPK and lime, and have a plan. If you can handle all that, and accept that you're a 15 minute hail storm away from a disaster, you'll be alright. I'm a little more chilled out than most though.
eta: I'm in the SE MS Delta.
This post was edited on 6/20/17 at 4:30 pm
Posted on 6/20/17 at 8:01 pm to stewie
Love the thread. Work in an air conditioned office from 7-6 four days a week and ready to get outside.
In two weeks will be moving to 23 acres and will get a barbed wire fence put up and will buy a few Brangus from my neighbor and hopefully they will grow. Also will get some donkeys to be my watchdogs. Maybe some chickens also. Learned a lot from the OB.
In two weeks will be moving to 23 acres and will get a barbed wire fence put up and will buy a few Brangus from my neighbor and hopefully they will grow. Also will get some donkeys to be my watchdogs. Maybe some chickens also. Learned a lot from the OB.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 9:08 pm to stewie
I would never claim to be a farmer (hard work) but I help a friend thats a farmer out when I can working on trucks, equipment and running a tractor or tractor trailer for the hunting lease rights on his 9 leases of about 6500 acres
Posted on 7/10/17 at 7:20 pm to stewie
Someone learn me on crop insurance...
Federally backed (like flood) or private insurance carriers?
Always wandered
Federally backed (like flood) or private insurance carriers?
Always wandered
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