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Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:10 pm to Seldom Seen
I've met quite a few middle schoolers who can code.
Yet to meet one who can run a farm.
Yet to meet one who can run a farm.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:13 pm to mahdragonz
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Farming...open your hand and take government money.
Don't seem hard at all.
I've pondered this and submit to you a question.....if you were a farmer and eligible to receive a USDA payment wouldn't you be a fool to refuse it?
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:13 pm to Seldom Seen
One of the hardest working groups in our country. What an insult! He could not make it one day doing that type of labor.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:15 pm to samson73103
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I've pondered this and submit to you a question.....if you were a farmer and eligible to receive a USDA payment wouldn't you be a fool to refuse it?
So how is that different than welfare?
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:16 pm to mahdragonz
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So how is that different than welfare?
How many people do welfare recipients feed each year?
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:24 pm to BIGFOOD
Farming is both harder and easier than it was a long time ago. Easier in that it is a lot more connected to computers; the satellite guides the tractor so you have arrow straight rows vs the armstrong steering of say 50 - 60 years ago.
Most farmers in Iowa have the really large equipment 20 or more row planters pulled by huge tractors with duals pr triples and front wheel assist as well. Naturally they all have cabs with heat and air.
Most do not do livestock either; unless it is a hog containment set up where they have 1,000 to 3,000 hogs on a farm setup. The ones who do not do livestock usually have a 2nd job to keep them busy; either sell seed or insurance. Those that do not are free to spend a lot of the winter down south.
Back in the '60's I was on the farm and we had both livestock as well as crops. I did just as much vet work on our animals as the vet did. Quite the life.
Most farmers in Iowa have the really large equipment 20 or more row planters pulled by huge tractors with duals pr triples and front wheel assist as well. Naturally they all have cabs with heat and air.
Most do not do livestock either; unless it is a hog containment set up where they have 1,000 to 3,000 hogs on a farm setup. The ones who do not do livestock usually have a 2nd job to keep them busy; either sell seed or insurance. Those that do not are free to spend a lot of the winter down south.
Back in the '60's I was on the farm and we had both livestock as well as crops. I did just as much vet work on our animals as the vet did. Quite the life.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:25 pm to texag7
If Bloomberg had to survive on what he grew in a garden, he'd starve.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:32 pm to September 1948
Had a guy try to explain proper calculations for irrigating cotton and rainfall levels to supplemental irrigation and costs associated with that.
Just that one element of growing cotton and he was talking over my head in 30 seconds.
There are shitty farmers just like any industry but I am not going to display my ignorance by trying to call them out.
Just that one element of growing cotton and he was talking over my head in 30 seconds.
There are shitty farmers just like any industry but I am not going to display my ignorance by trying to call them out.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:44 pm to Purple Spoon
Nowadays you almost need to have an ag degree to farm.
They lost me when they went to all the fancy tractors and all the tech knowledge.
A lot of land is not even being used now. The farmers are paid to take it out of production.
Don't even get me started on using a food product for making ethanol. Although they are using other things for that now.
They lost me when they went to all the fancy tractors and all the tech knowledge.
A lot of land is not even being used now. The farmers are paid to take it out of production.
Don't even get me started on using a food product for making ethanol. Although they are using other things for that now.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:47 pm to Rammin TX
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Damn elite level Ag school. God Bless your family.
yeah that school definately is that. good thing my cousin isn't. he is a vietnam vet who cannnot wear proper shoes from the damage agent orange did to his body. i have much respect for him and that side of the family. i only spent 1 summer, in '89, in north dakota helping with harvest to know i was not crackked up to do that for a living
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:48 pm to Rammin TX
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nd you better be a damn good mechanic
As well as a darn good welder, financially savvy and good businessman in general.
This post was edited on 2/17/20 at 9:52 pm
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:49 pm to mahdragonz
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mahdragonz
Yer dumb arse needs to STFU until you spend time on a farm. until than your opinion isnt worth shite.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:50 pm to samson73103
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if you were a farmer and eligible to receive a USDA payment wouldn't you be a fool to refuse it?
He’d be bankrupt.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:51 pm to mahdragonz
Farmers spend a lot of money to operate. Creates a lot of jobs and stimulus to farming communities.
Welfare recipients do nothing but take
Welfare recipients do nothing but take
Posted on 2/17/20 at 9:55 pm to September 1948
There’s not as much out of rotation as you may have been led to believe. You still make more money by having it in production. It’s just easier, labor wise, not more profitable. There’s a frick ton of paper work to get a piece of land on that program, and a memo from God himself to take it out of the program early.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 10:10 pm to mahdragonz
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So how is that different than welfare?
You are a special kind of stupid. Any government money a farmer receives is to ensure you never go to a grocery store and find the shelves empty.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 10:21 pm to Rammin TX
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And you better be a damn good mechanic
Most farmers I know have way to many well used crescent wrenches.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 10:22 pm to Kcprogguitar
I have to disagree on that. In northern Iowa you see a lot of fallow fields. And I don't even know the acronyms for it anymore. CRP and CREP and maybe others.
AFAIK, they have to keep the weeds/trees down and can use it for haying if there is a hay shortage after a certain date. Don't know if they need permission then.
AFAIK, they have to keep the weeds/trees down and can use it for haying if there is a hay shortage after a certain date. Don't know if they need permission then.
Posted on 2/17/20 at 10:27 pm to mahdragonz
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Farming...open your hand and take government money.
Don't seem hard at all.
You should try it, seems like you’d get rich quick. Report back!
And stop trying so damned hard you fricking tool
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