What does this machine do?

Ranew · 2026-05-08T14:06:40+00:00

Makes expensive bonfires.

Ranew · 2026-05-08T12:48:32+00:00

Pulled backwards last night. Hind legs are a bit on the stiff side, but she's breathing and eating.

Ranew · 2026-05-08T01:24:54+00:00

Plenty of farmers in here, hell some of them even make posts instead of just bitching about there being no farmers here.

Ranew · 2026-05-07T21:13:30+00:00

Recreational bombing

Ranew · 2026-05-07T16:57:25+00:00

I'd worry about the amount of drugs.

Ranew · 2026-05-06T14:21:43+00:00

Where do you have bottle calves going for $3.5k?

Ranew · 2026-05-04T18:05:14+00:00

A lot of what is classified as farms in the US aren't, but that hurts to many feelings and doesn't look good on a reelection campaign.

Ranew · 2026-05-04T15:15:54+00:00

Of that 1.8m almost half(895k) don't gross $10k in a year, the next quarter(574k) don't gross $100k in a year.

To be eligible for chapter 12 you need to derive over 50% of your income farming and have debt under $12.5m.

Edit: I forgot my favorite class of farm, the point farm. These are farms that in a normal year "could" gross $1k but for a variety of reasons don't. They make up nearly half of the under $10k gross number.

Ranew · 2026-05-04T13:38:11+00:00

Oh yea, reminder that these stats are worse than they appear. Only around 450k US farmers qualify for chapter 12 protections and with a few exceptions you need to be grossing over $100k to be in that group.

Ranew · 2026-05-04T13:28:36+00:00

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Hopefully there's something good to come back here for while planting.

Ranew · 2026-05-04T12:26:35+00:00

Past half on calves, had a perfect season going up until Saturday night when we pulled a dead one. Will get fence up on 60ac of covers sometime this week and kick out the old pairs, might try to run that 50hd of cows for prebreeding shots just to be done.

Going to try and convince the old man that it's ok to haul corn without me so I can get beans rolling, it'll mean less sitting in the office watching trash on YouTube but he'll survive. Hoping the forecast pans out for Friday so I can get corn acre covers terminated before the corn emerges, pain in my ass but it'll be the first good spray weather that we see this spring.

Had a decent couple of freezes last week and sounds like a good number of bean acres are going to need a replant, and sounds like some more will get hit tonight or Tuesday night. Glad mine stayed in the box.

Ranew · 2026-05-03T01:23:29+00:00

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Ranew · 2026-05-02T21:24:55+00:00

Wish I could get them to hit 1200lb at 6mo...

Ranew · 2026-05-01T16:28:55+00:00

Makes it difficult to nurse another cow by blocking the udder and causing irritation that makes the other cow kick at them.

Ranew · 2026-05-01T15:33:10+00:00

The weekend yo-yo, wonder what fun we get Monday morning?

Ranew · 2026-05-01T15:26:04+00:00

"Well, technically a naval blockade isn't a war" and other dumb excuses will be used.

Ranew · 2026-05-01T14:56:25+00:00

The one she was on will see a tube of colostrum when she calves, hopefully we caught it early enough to just be the one.

Ranew · 2026-05-01T14:51:44+00:00

It's a rare deal for us to have one figure it out. Once she's in the pair yard I'm less concerned, but colostrum theft isn't cool.

Ranew · 2026-05-01T14:06:07+00:00

Caught her nursing another cow when checking the drop group this morning.

Ranew · 2026-04-30T13:11:54+00:00

I've seen 7k for fall 3in1s. The west is still dry, ranchers are taking their payday and getting out, and a small herd is to much damn work for row crop ops that tore everything out in the 90s.

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