Rough morning. Just got back from my weekend, don't know who was watching my herd yet but I've lost one calf and found another almost down. They just trucked in last week, so they're fragile as-is, but the weather went from sunny 70 to rainy 40 overnight. I've dosed this guy up and just kind of snuggle him to warm him up a bit. Getting him in the truck was gonna be too much stress. I wrapped him up in my jacket before I left to check the other herds, by the time I came back 30min later he was back on his feet. Fingers crossed.

just started a little garden and thought y’all would be the people to ask about the details. i want to use mostly tilled ground and a few potters but i would like to know how to maintain my ground for that.

i did also receive a basil plant as a gift from someone which I will picture below, just wondered if there is something i can do to make it more healthy.

I’m looking for some sort of equivalent of those hand crank corn shelling machines you can buy for about $100, but for pinto beans. Does anything like this exist, or buildable/DIY? All I can seem to find is garbage on Alibaba that likely wouldn’t work. I’m willing to spend several hundred or so dollars, preferably under $1000

Planter bork :(

This was a particularly violent breakdown that happened so fast. I went to drop the planter, moving forward as i do, not aware the bolt holding the ground drive wheel had sheared, so when it went down, wobbled, it went sideways then yanked forward by the drive chain, then caught the tractor tire and really mangled itself. All this in a couple seconds :(

I want to do 2 jobs the whole day to see how it goes. I was suppose to do that but random stuff always comes up. What companies hire for simple farm jobs or anything outdoors? Any advice on this? I can't be stuck indoors. It's not good for overall health

Farn dog friday!

Hello, as you know may know judging by the topic or title that I’m wanting to get into farming. I’ve been ambitious about getting into farming specifically rowing crop farming, I don’t mind livestock either just think row crop is more interesting in my opinion. I’m 19 and I don’t really have an ag background and I was hesitant joining ffa because all I was told that it was more about leadership and not the agriculture aspect of things at least what I was told in my school. Yes, i would’ve had a better opportunity getting into agriculture through ffa but there were other personal reasons. I have no experience I have a little bit of knowledge just growing up around it but that’s it. I plan to make a career out of it. I’m still in highschool and I’m not sure where to start that or what to do for someone to take me under their wing. If anyone could help where I can get the right step into the door I’d greatly appreciate it.

My dad was reminiscing today about how frustrated he would get with my granddad every time they upgraded something, because granddad couldn’t get anything working without my dad here.

We’re finally running GPS this year for planting, and he commented that he couldn’t even start work without me here to setup the tractor for him. I think after a week or two he’ll be fine, as he managed to mostly figure out the sprayer we bought last year, but made me think that there will be a day in the near future that I won’t be able to keep up either. I’m certain my son isn’t coming back after college to work on the farm.

I can vividly remember my granddads last day working on the farm. He bought a new cotton picker, made a full round without engaging the heads, got off and said he was done.

I'm looking for a sprayer that can spray maybe 40' vertical, higher would be better. How much PSI would such a sprayer need?

Ideally, I'd like to mount on a Kubota UTV. 3PT hitch is another option. Any recommendations?

Just workin dirt

Hey everyone,

I'm wondering if any of you have benefited from the conservation programs in the Farm Bill, like EQIP, CSP, or AMA. If so, what kind of assistance did you receive?

I'm trying to figure out if people could use help understanding the farm bill to gain access to the resources. Or if it is just too competitive and admin heavy to actually get the funding they put into it.

I was talking with some Avocado farmers in San Diego about how they are really struggling with water price increases and exports flooding the market. So I wanted to see if there would be anything in the farm bill to help them. But I wanted to understand at a broader level how much it can actually help the average farmer. I have heard it is super competitive to get access to many of the funding outside of crop insurance. Like for water retention and other conservation policies.

Driving down the road and I heard a bang so I decided to stop. Low and behold my rear ujoint decided to ef up my camera and air seeder harness. Like I didn't have enough to do already.

I love to work ground, although we no-till most of the time and this actually is not considered tilling.

I'm having a hard time finding farm insurance for equipment rentals. All the policies I'm finding are pretty broad, but I only need liability insurance to cover potential damage to equipment I rent. Can anyone recommend the right kind of policy to search for so I'm not paying for coverage I don't need?

I planted 100 olive trees. They were planted below soil level so water is collecting in them when it rains. I’m faced with some options

1. replant properly. Not easy w gopher baskets, Labor etc.
2. add soil to level up w the ground. Risk of impacting the trunk if buried
3. level the area around the tree so water isn’t collected by the tree.
4. do nothing and hope trees gets stronger.

If you were me which is hard to imagine why. What would you do.