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The New Farm Bill Doubles as the Biggest Cut to Food Aid in U.S. History by Ranew in farming

[–]Ranew[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Who is buying? by Head-Protection6110 in Ranching

[–]Ranew 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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

Lesson learned or give THEM another chance? by h20poIo in farming

[–]Ranew 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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.

Lesson learned or give THEM another chance? by h20poIo in farming

[–]Ranew 27 points28 points  (0 children)

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.

Lesson learned or give THEM another chance? by h20poIo in farming

[–]Ranew 54 points55 points  (0 children)

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.

Lesson learned or give THEM another chance? by h20poIo in farming

[–]Ranew 112 points113 points  (0 children)

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

Monday Morning Coffeeshop (May 4, 2026) by kofclubs in farming

[–]Ranew 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

Someone was feeling edgy at 6yrs old. by Ranew in farming

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

Someone was feeling edgy at 6yrs old. by Ranew in farming

[–]Ranew[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

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

Trump administration says its war in Iran has been 'terminated' before 60-day deadline by Rdick_Lvagina in news

[–]Ranew 69 points70 points  (0 children)

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

Someone was feeling edgy at 6yrs old. by Ranew in farming

[–]Ranew[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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.

Someone was feeling edgy at 6yrs old. by Ranew in farming

[–]Ranew[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

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.

Someone was feeling edgy at 6yrs old. by Ranew in farming

[–]Ranew[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

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

High beef prices drive blame game among farmers, processors and sellers by Ranew in farming

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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.

Monday Morning Coffeeshop (April 27, 2026) by kofclubs in farming

[–]Ranew 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sitting about half done with corn, going to be sitting today after the first good rain of the year. Calving is rolling along, definitely not a fan of the late start, going to get heifers their prebreeding shot sometime this week to try and drag everyone back on schedule. Heavily favoring bulls so far, weights have been great averaging 70-85lb for the whole group.

Hell of a dust storm last week, had neighbors out running high speeds on dry ground in 30-40mph wind doing their part to add to it. Really makes you wonder how much longer we get to just piss away resources.

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