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re: Crawfish farm profitability
Posted on 1/12/21 at 2:51 pm to GREENHEAD22
Posted on 1/12/21 at 2:51 pm to GREENHEAD22
quote:This is what I was born into...I am not a farmer.
Being a lease farmer is tough.
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Posted on 1/12/21 at 5:08 pm to White Bear
I love to be a farmer or rancher for a career but will have to settle for possibly working in the AG industry and having a hobby beef herd. At least for now.
Posted on 1/12/21 at 5:15 pm to GREENHEAD22
Go work for HighCotton or prostyle
Posted on 1/12/21 at 5:26 pm to jpcajun
quote:
Average catch per acre in SWLA is about 700-750lbs/ac
I'm assuming that's per year right?
Posted on 1/12/21 at 5:26 pm to lsuson
quote:Surprised he made much money. We had a 25 acre cut in a 100 acre field we’d catch 30 sacks in- just that cut alone. This was an exceptional case and definitely not the norm though. Caught a lot in other cuts too.
x girlfriends dad has rice fields. He would stock 6 fields and would average about 12 sacks a day 6 days a week. The majority of his crawfish were selects and were shipped out to restaurants. I don’t know how his ponds always yielded big ones. I prefer mediums.
This post was edited on 1/12/21 at 5:31 pm
Posted on 1/12/21 at 5:28 pm to lsuson
quote:Doesnt even get good until spring, really. You must mean he fished until summer. When the water gets hot, the shells get hard and they burrow. I once read they can burrow up to 9 ft down. Hard to believe.
When you factor in he harvested well into the spring when most farmers shut down, he made bank.
Posted on 1/12/21 at 5:31 pm to baldona
Yes
Posted on 1/12/21 at 5:36 pm to jimbeam
Never heard of either and a Google search doesn't bring up anything.
Looking into Corteva and others like it for seed and chem sales positions.
Looking into Corteva and others like it for seed and chem sales positions.
Posted on 1/12/21 at 5:40 pm to GREENHEAD22
I’m talking about the posters on here 
Posted on 1/12/21 at 5:58 pm to jimbeam
HC does seem to have a very lucrative operation and also lives in the only area of AL I would live.
Posted on 1/12/21 at 6:54 pm to GREENHEAD22
He does look like he has a nice, well taken care of, operation... BUT I do have one amigo that’s dragging his feet on getting his passport renewed.... So we might have an opening!
More seriously though, working for Corteva, Bayer, Syngenta, etc. are good, fun jobs if you like that type of stuff. I’d do something like that if I weren’t farming.
More seriously though, working for Corteva, Bayer, Syngenta, etc. are good, fun jobs if you like that type of stuff. I’d do something like that if I weren’t farming.
Posted on 1/12/21 at 7:00 pm to prostyleoffensetime
$8/hr all day every day. El Sueno Americano
Actually, dad didn’t pay me shite, - we had a trade agreement.
Actually, dad didn’t pay me shite, - we had a trade agreement.
This post was edited on 1/12/21 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 1/12/21 at 7:54 pm to KemoSabe65
I think he was trying to say they flood fields and use it for crawfish. My friends with rice farms do this as part of their crop rotation
Posted on 1/13/21 at 5:05 pm to baldona
Yes, per season
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