Yup! Nailed it!
You never know, the ages being spread out may be an advantage. As one group starts to slow it down, another will just be coming up. Instead of the normal generation gap, the period can be broken up slightly.
Yeah, that would be me. I usually take care of most of the parts ordering. And yes we keep a pretty high level of parts on hand. Yet at times it seems we have every part for every piece of equipment, except the part we need.Me being kind of nosey when it comes to shops and garages...damn, you boys keep some inventory! That looks like an old school Napa in the background. Better to have things on site for repairs, but do you keep a counter guy there too?
Isn't that the way it works? I have three roll cabs but never the wrench I need! Every fitting except the last one to finish the fuel system...etc, etc.
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How are your soil ph levels? I see lime getting spread here, is that common by you?
To a degree, yes. Primarily we use it to look at adding irrigation to ground. All of our existing ground has irrigation, but regularly we are either looking at taking on ground without irrigation, or trying to maximize the stuff we have.
Most of the equipment is pretty specialized for an individual task. I’d: the chopper. It’s task is silage. Corn or hay, either way, one task. Some is the big guys like JD or new Holland making stuff that farmers are asking for, or making the current option better.some of the specialized stuff, like potato harvesters is something that started out in someone’s shop that got improved upon by a machine shop, and is small time guy making great.
They vary some. In our sandy soils they run fairly neutral to slightly acidic. Liming is a necessity for us. Usually you’ll see ground coming out of potatoes being limed. Veggies tend to like it more neutral, or between 6.5-7. Potatoes, on the other hand prefer the 5.7-6.2 range. So, you’ll see the lime going on behind potatoes, and the multi year rotation working it back to a lower level for the spuds. Usually around a ton per acre once in 3-4 years.
The flooding is also affecting the gas prices. The railways are limited to shipping from the ethanol plants which supplies to the refineries that are mandated to add a % to gas.Unintended consequence of this thread --- Finding myself glued to last night's news watching the horrible flooding devastation to the affected mid-western farms, with a heightened realization of their losses and financial impact. In addition I found myself feeling far more sympathetic and saddened by their loss. These weren't just large corporations run by wall street suits, these were real Americans, good hard working people and many will not recover.
Particularly in your area, you guys are supplied by rail from N Dakota and surrounding areas.So that's what's going on . It went up a dime here yesterday.
Interesting theory. Not sure who came up with that concept, but I can pretty much say it is not true, even not knowing the context. Most likely, in AZ, any alfalfa and corn grown probably goes into animal feed. Obviously the alfalfa does, but I believe the main market for the corn down in that region is primarily also cows. Both of those crops are pretty much stand alone crops that would be definitely a harvestable crop, meaning one is planted specifically for the yield of itself, and not as a rodent attractant. The alfalfa, or hay, also is probably used as a fertilizer source for the corn. Alfalfa is a legume, and produces nodules of nitrogen that feeds itself while it grows. When a farmer no longer is going to keep the hay in production, its common to utilize the alfalfa crop as what they call a nitrogen credit as a portion of the total N needed for the corn crop as that nodulation in the soil breaks down and becomes usable by the corn. Soybeans will also do the same as they also are a legume.
Seems a bit coincidental to happen annually? Just an observation.Meanwhile on the left coast with spring here and summer approaching we've seen the start of the "Refinery Fire Season". Yes it's an annual ritual, occurs at the same time each year forcing increased gas prices just in time for the summer travel season.
Yeah, but we're all to stupid and otherwise pre-occupied to notice
Good question. The combine does both the stripping the ear from the stalk and the threashing of the kernels from the ear. It grinds the stalks and spits the cobs and any trash that goes through the combine out the back end, and just leaves the relatively clean corn kernels in the grain tank. Those alone get sent to the dryer.
A combine is a lot more complex then I thought when I was younger. I thought they were giant lawnmowers as a kid. I knew they stripped the ear from the stalk, but have never watched them filling the trucks.
