All of my CRP has been ready for awhile. I will be collecting my money mid October.
The '24 Iowa Harvest thread
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We had one of those cribs and I remember when they were full but for some reason I don't remember them ever shelling it. I was pretty young I guess.
Yeah wasn’t expecting to be going this early and didn’t get some of our stuff washed lol
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Listened KJAN and Jack Buck here. 560 gas wide front end. No cab. No hearing now either!
I didn't grow up on a crop farm but we raised a small herd of cattle so our "harvest" was baling hale during the summer and weaning calves in the fall. My parent's have been gradually downsizing the herd over the years and decided earlier this year they would sell off the herd after this calf crop as they are in their late 70's and it's just too much work for them with my dad's knees bothering him and both are just ready to not have to do so much physical work with daily chores. I took the day off work Friday to help wean calves for the final time - I only live 30 minutes away from them and still own a couple of the cows and am out there regularly to help when we need to work cattle or do any bigger jobs around the farm. Always enjoyed running calves up the alley to the scale and guessing which ones are going to weigh the most before dad gets the weight on the scale.
Growing up, during the summer I used to rake hay and haul in round bales on our no-cab International 756. Some summers would spend a week out at my grandparents who managed a larger herd of cattle for someone in Indiana and would help with their larger hay fields too. I remember when harvest season was going and the farmer that rented the crop ground directly behind us was harvesting we'd get home from school and run out to the field to ride in the combine with him for awhile.
Going to miss the cattle stuff but I also have not missed some of it too like thawing out frozen water in the middle of winter or getting up every few hours during calving season to check cows that are due to calve and other things that wear on you over time. Also, I just can't justify taking it over because I don't have the time to commit to it even at a small size herd with both of us working 40 hour jobs and 2 young kids in activities. It's something you have to be able to do daily chores around the same times and also have someone around especially during calving season as you can't leave cows for 10 hours or so and risk losing a calf or even the cow if they have difficulty calving. My brother in law who lives over 2.5 hours away runs about 100 head of cows as well as farms several hundred acres of corn and beans so I guess I still have that to help with if I really miss it bad some day and want to do some days of good old fashion hard manual farm labor.
Growing up, during the summer I used to rake hay and haul in round bales on our no-cab International 756. Some summers would spend a week out at my grandparents who managed a larger herd of cattle for someone in Indiana and would help with their larger hay fields too. I remember when harvest season was going and the farmer that rented the crop ground directly behind us was harvesting we'd get home from school and run out to the field to ride in the combine with him for awhile.
Going to miss the cattle stuff but I also have not missed some of it too like thawing out frozen water in the middle of winter or getting up every few hours during calving season to check cows that are due to calve and other things that wear on you over time. Also, I just can't justify taking it over because I don't have the time to commit to it even at a small size herd with both of us working 40 hour jobs and 2 young kids in activities. It's something you have to be able to do daily chores around the same times and also have someone around especially during calving season as you can't leave cows for 10 hours or so and risk losing a calf or even the cow if they have difficulty calving. My brother in law who lives over 2.5 hours away runs about 100 head of cows as well as farms several hundred acres of corn and beans so I guess I still have that to help with if I really miss it bad some day and want to do some days of good old fashion hard manual farm labor.
Yes but we all know the backbone of the USPS is CITY carriers.
The bolded made me chuckle. Guessing the market weight of cattle or hogs was never my dad's strong suit, and we would inevitably have discussions (arguments) on whether they were ready for market or not. After they were weighed up at the destination of sale he would sheepishly reveal that I was closer than he was. It got to be a joke between us when after one incident he stated "I can't guess the weight of a steer within a hundred pounds, but I can always get a chicken within five!" Fond memories.
We have a scale on the farm and weigh cows and calves at weaning and the calves at intervals between weaning and 1 year of age so we can track gain and adjust feed ration accordingly. We have registered purebred so collecting performance data is valuable both for what we kept as replacements or sold. We don't always guess the weight but more of "I bet this one is going to weigh the most" when I would sort off 1 to bring up to the scale. Came pretty close on weight for the 1 I picked this year, said probably around 600 and he was 610. Most years I'm pretty good picking the heaviest and lightest just by eye and by how big they seem when I'm pushing them up through the alley. However the 1 thing when it comes to weaning weight is they ratio off a 205 day weight so you can have an older calf weigh the most but if one of young calves weighs well for their age they can ratio higher because once you calculate what that weight translates for 205 days on an equal age that calf actually would weigh more at the same age as the heavier older calf.
A few years ago a friend of mine did a lot of drone footage on his family farm.
Lyle Bremser for me. I don't know if ISU was broadcast in southwest Iowa in the 60s and early 70s. When I was growing up.
There’s a thing called frost those guys don’t have to worry about.
It’s pretty rare that beans get a whole lot better as we move through combining. This year it may as everything was planted late but this year is going to be one to forget on multiple fronts in NW Iowa.
4640 with a straight pipe WFO on the stalk cutter. Radio also WFO and if you were lucky you could maybe catch the important stuff.
OMG Speaking Of Dolph. Heading home from Ames on Saturday and turned the Hawk game on the radio about 10 minutes before. Gary was "interviewing Floyd of Rosedale". Dolph asked 4 or 5 questions and someone grunted like a pig for the answers. Certainly the worst 5 minutes of sports broadcasting I've heard in my life.
