At any rate, leave the farmer alone right now...you have "48" other weeks to bug him. Or grab a bag of seed and help fill hoppers.
Planting season
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Yeah but you know as well as I do that gets funky to track when it comes to leases and grain sales. There are a many old people who cash a lease check but still on the tax papers show up as a farm. I know a guy who owns land, buys the seed, someone else farms it, but he still gets a grain check never lifted a finger as far as actual "farming" goes.
As a little experiment on my 54 mile drive home through the back roads I counted farms. If a farm looked to be a working farm with barns or silos or had agricultural tools visible I marked them as "active". If a farm had run down barns, silos falling in, and I could tell it wasn't really a working farm I marked them as inactive. I gave the benefit of the doubt and marked "working" if it was questionable.
10 working farms. Not including 1 Dairy, 1 beef, 1 pork
47 non working farms of days gone by.
So whose working the land those 47 farms used to work. The remaining 10 farms is who. They've either sold it to them or they lease it. But I bet if you look on the books those 47 places are still counted as "farms".
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I somehow doubt the sentiment would be returned if I got I front of him and went 5 miles an hour for 10 miles never caring that I was holding him up. Apparently they're so busy they can't take 10 minutes to be bothered I can't imagine how they would feel if they were the one held up behind a slowpoke who doesn't care.
My original point was while I agree with giles that we should be respectful of people's time, and not hold them up while they're busy working, common courtesy is a two way street. You're not absolved from courtesy just because you farm. This includes them being respectful of people's time and not holding people up while they're busy. Pull over once in a while and let the 30 people your holding up pass. Takes 2 minutes and you'll get a lot less middle fingers.
Difference being, he's running that equipment as hard as he can. He would run the speed limit if he could. So it's not apples to apples. It also sounds like you are in a different area than I e ever been around. 30 cars...I don't even see 30 cars go down the road in an 8 hour setting. We also stay off state routes and stick to back roads.
I feel bad that you have these feelings. Even worse that it seems you are very solid on your views. I promise they all aren't like that though. Most are very good peoples.
I feel bad that you have these feelings. Even worse that it seems you are very solid on your views. I promise they all aren't like that though. Most are very good peoples.
Every time I stop at one particular working farm that I hunt the landowner is usually pretty busy and doesn't have time to talk, if he's even there. I've also never seen anyone around my area give the middle finger to a farmer driving his tractor down the road, usually they are on the road for a couple miles at the most around here and everyone is accustomed to it.
My dad and uncle are retired farmers and my cousin farms 400 acres in Iowa and they were and are some of the hardest working men i know.
It kept my dad in good shape all those yrs outdoors and at 81 if ya met him you would think he was 20 yrs younger,tough old dude.
But then agan they were old school.
It kept my dad in good shape all those yrs outdoors and at 81 if ya met him you would think he was 20 yrs younger,tough old dude.
But then agan they were old school.
Rain+heat+humid, could be a good year for corn.
I've heard a lot of reports of root rot on the beans though.
I've heard a lot of reports of root rot on the beans though.
We are dying of thirst up here along the lake shore. Beans are starting to show the cracks in the rock where the roots can pull up moisture from further below. Yesterday's storm line went right around Erie/Huron/Sandusky counties. Praying we get at least .2-.5" tomorrow because there is nothing in the FC until next Weds......
I know the ground was rock hard a couple weeks ago when I was up that way. River was low also and dad said it had rained the day before.
How tall is the corn up that way? I'd say 90% of the fields down this way are well over 8' now.
How tall is the corn up that way? I'd say 90% of the fields down this way are well over 8' now.
Right on track then. "Knee high by the 4th" is what I was always told up that way. I hope you guys get the rain though...been a rough couple of years on farmers up that way. Way to much rain last year and a crazy cold winter the year before.