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Hi, sources are not available to me to find this information. Is it possible to make greenhouses for apples, oranges and lemons? I dont see people do it in my country? Is it that it is possible but not profitable….?
Hello all! I have a random agricultural science question.
There is a 13-acre agriculturally zoned parcel of land in my small city that has been on the market for over a decade. It's the site of a former golf course which closed in 2013. A small portion of the property was covered in sand and fill dirt before this date, but it's now covered in beautiful grass and trees. I realize that many driving ranges use harmful chemicals but was told that a lot of them leach out of the soil within 10 years. A local college has offered to do free soil samples which should help determine whether there are any toxins still remaining, so that should hopefully help somewhat, but has anyone encountered a similar situation? Or know of any soil science resources I should look at?
In songs and all, cattle are sometimes called 'little doggies' - aka 'get along little doggies' - but it's not DOGGIES, it's more like dough-gies. Because there is a reason they were called that!
Most of them were orphaned calves who would be feeding on coarse prairie grasses. This tended to cause their stomachs to become extended and give them a round, dough-like appearance. They tended to get called dough bellied or dough guts, shortened in song to 'dough-gies' or dogies. It's interesting how slang terms tend to form and how a lot of people have no idea where they came from!
A historian looking into the Wild West mentions it when doing a song in a WIRED video.
Replacing the draw tube in a portable tank after the original thin pvc type material broke off from sloshing around. Is black pipe or galvanized better or does it even matter?
I’m looking to buy 80 acres of rural land to build my home on. But I want to make money off the land until then. How do I go about finding farmers to lease out my land to for growing crops and pasture land for animals?
I have purchased 40acres in Nevada County, CA. Property has rolling hill with medium density forest filled with pines and oaks. Because California is notorious for fires, I want to purchase a Tractor to maintaine the property. It will be used for snow removal, weed abatement, maintain the road to the property, possibly some tree removal/planting, assist with fire prevention for neighbors.
I've never ran a tractor before so anything I get will be used, but prefer newer. What kind of tractor should I consider? What HP rating? What features should it have? Brand preference? Attachments? Tracks or wheel? And anything else that i should consider.
If this is the wrong place to ask, I'll gladly take it down and find another spot. I am in no rush to purchase since fire season for us is coming to a close and any projects I would start would be in the spring.
I keep seeing videos of people with tablets mounted in the cab of tractors/sprayers/combines in addition to guidance and drill/spray monitors. For those of you that have them, what's the purpose? Am I missing out on something?
Promised a customer 100 squares, baler broke so now that it's fixed naturally a tree fell on my bale roller so hand pitching it is. I'm gonna die! I'm exhausted.
We're a small-medium size vegetable farm with a lot of direct retail. In our experience, PFAs seem to be increasingly a part of the public consciousness without a whole lot of actual info available for farmers (or consumers) out there. We're getting regular questions these days from customers if we know anything about them and frankly their guess is as good as ours. And concern is bubbling up fast. I don't think I'd ever even heard of PFAs before this summer.
Seems to me like if it's something people are going to be scared about (and it certainly appears health concerns are grounded in the cases of major contamination in groundwater or soil), then that fear Will rapidly breed more fear and misinformation if our state agencies and farm organizations don't have satisfactory answers for peoplein short order.
I tell folks we haven't heard any indication that we should be particularly concerned so long as we are not near any known sites of contaminated ground or surface water, and as far as I know, we aren't. (But how do we even verify that? And is it something that environmental agencies are actively looking into?)
Meanwhile, I haven't heard any guidance from our state department of ag or the feds or any Farm organizations really regarding how we farmers should be approaching the issue or doing any necessary due diligence on it, certainly not on any funding related to looking into it on an individual basis. There appears to be private testing services, but I don't know if they're reliable or any guidance for industry best practices regarding testing.
Anyway, seems like a legitimate concern for some locations that may or may not be of widespread importance, and it really feels like one of those things that's going to blow up into a whole consumer misinformation clusterfuck if government and or industry doesn't set about trying to address it. It. Wondering if others have gotten any helpful advice or info, or how your farm communities are approaching it.
If you participate in any of the offered USDA farm programs you are required to report some or all of the crops you planted. All aspects of agriculture leave me filled with awe! The number of crops grown commercially in the United States is wide yet many interested in this sub-reddit come to it with a narrow vision. That's not meant to be critical. Its necessary and expected. Some folks come here wanting to get into farming and we often think about the farms with huge acreages and millions of dollars invested in property and equipment. For others already invested in farming there might be opportunities for diversification (maybe).
Look at the range of crops being grown in the United States.
Acreage reported planted by crop name by county and in summary for the United States can be found here:
Could there be opportunity here for you? The trick is to find it.
Saw a post about it awhile back and then nothing. Did it ever start?
Hey team,
I have requested to get more involved with the broadacre side of things on the farm I work at (we primarily grow sod), and I just wanted to know if there were any Ag books (specific to Australia) that I could read?
I know it’s a watch and learn kinda thing, but we haven’t started harvest yet, and I like to read in my down time so I figured I’d kill two birds with one stone.
Cheers.
Do I need to set up a business (choosing entity and the like) to start a grain farm?
Is there a place to buy livestock antibiotics online without a prescription? I'm in need of general antibiotic after stitching up an animal yesterday.
Hello fellow farmers. I've worked on a few small scale <100ac hobby type farms over the past decade or so, usually just as a shoulder season thing and knowledge base building activity, most have been excellent at manually tracking work hours and project planning, but at my current site I'd like to try a more thorough, detailed approach
The farm I currently help on is run by a family friend, 40ac homestead type situation in central MI, with a hay lease down the road. They're about ten years in with a very regenerative approach, not much for straight row cropping, think curving swales along the contours of hills. They have a mixture of fruit and nut trees (maybe 75 each), all sorts of berry bushes, old and new timber trees, greenhouse, maybe 10 head of cattle (and growing) they rotate around, egg chickens, the usual.
I have used Avenza, the mapping app, with decent results so far but I'd like a bit more flexibility with visualization and scheduling, perhaps this just means a combination of apps or spreadsheets and better file export protocols. I think this would save a lot of time managing untrained help as well, who don't have as much orientation on the property.
I like the precise GPS pins I can drop for each tree or shrub, I even mark gates, fences lines, swales, etc. I would love to attach a more detailed description of each tree, species, planting date, projected harvest or maintenance dates, work done & when, like pruning or pest management, and pictures. This could also be applied to larger grazing quadrants where we might burn one year and plant a grass mix the next. Avenza can do most of this but its a bit clunky and the ability to import and export notes is cumbersome.
Sorry if this is a bit spitball-y or better suited for another /r I appreciate your time!
Was wondering if anyone has looked into aftermarket joystick steering kits for their equipment.
This is a Milstak bale stacker we use for our operation. Capable of stacking ~150 bales an hour. The issue is the strain it puts on your body. Cranking the steering wheel all the way left and all the way right all the time, along with a cab placement that shakes you to pieces, it wears on operators. We don't like to put guys even above age 30 in it.
For some context driving this efficiently means going 35+ mph in the field to get to bales and start stacking, and then similar speeds back to the stack.
I have run end loaders with joysticks before and it is an immense improvement, if you're not roading them. I'd like to put a joystick in but have found limited aftermarket options, but I believe they have to exist. Has anyone looked into this before?
Also any suggestions for a special seat that can soften running over the harshest of unexpected washouts/sprayer tracks?
Before y'all say go slower, they are designed for fast speeds and time is money.
Maybe it's just me. Seems like there are a lot of people interested in "farming" who post thoughts and questions here. They ask about what to grow here or there or how to get into farming. A reasonable answer is hard to offer because "farming" is such a diverse concept. Crops? Livestock? Aquaculture?
Among those who classify and quantify businesses, one way to get some kind of handle on the diversity is thru assigning Standard Industrial Codes (SIC) to farming operations. I know little of how its done and if its right or wrong but it serves to illustrate how many different farming enterprise types there are.
The whole Division is called "Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing. There are five divisions; 1) Agricultural Production Crops, 2) Agricultural Production - Livestock and Animal Specialties, 3) Agricultural Services, 4) Forestry, 5) Fishing, Hunting & Trapping. Beneath each division are subdivisions. Under CROPS there are 20. Under LIVESTOCK, 16. And so on......
https://www.naics.com/sic-codes-counts-division/?div=A
It's like an ice cream shop. There are 54 flavors. But there's the question about cone or dish and how many scoops? That's farming, too!