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The field was fallow this year. The farmer sprayed round-up to kill weeds. The wheat did not die, so he was curious why and had it tested. Like somebody else said wheat dies pretty quick with round-up. That's why it got tested, I guess if I sprayed a field and only the wheat lived I'd be...

Yes. Had one in my neck last year. Had to have surgery put 2 plates and 6 screws in my neck. Took a long time to recover.

This is what I did. I noticed there were some large areas in town that people owned and paid someone else to mow. I offered to mow them for the hay. I got a square bailer and related equipment and mowed hay and sold it to horse people. Eventually I bought a acreage and started feeding some...

was doing the same thing on May 7 watching my daughter get her diploma at Mankato. All they get is a piece of paper that basically says that if you passed all your classes and you don't owe us any money we'll post a degree. Got there for a 9 AM and were home by 3:30 pm. Nice to see them get...

It was my 21st birthday and I thought she would make a nice little birthday present for myself. She told me that she already had on A-hole in her pants and did not need another. We had our 30th last august, guess I proved her wrong.

Where's your daughter going to school?

I was 21 in 1979. Land here was $2500 per acre and interest rates from federal land bank were over 10%. Corn was $2/bu Bean $5.5 and you got 100 bu corn and 38 bu beans. I bought my farm in 1987 I was 29 and had been working in town, saved $15000 over the years and bought 148 acres with an...

$50,000 is still a chunk of money and $100,000 is nice chunk of money, and what I would give to be 21 again. If I had it to do over again. I would go a good college like South Dakota or Wyoming or CSU that has a good range program. SDSU has some experiment ranches out in the western part of...

There is almost as much cloride (salt is sodium cloride) as there is calcium in milk. Ask a dairy farmer if he ever forgot to put salt in his ration, if he did his milk production dropped 5# the next day. So if the average angus produces 20# of milk a day, not having salt will drop her...

for those who liked the horses hauling hay that soapweek posted a few weeks ago here something to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTM-EzD4pgg

I was in southern Calif. visiting my brother and family. I showed my nephew a picture of me plowing with my horses. He proudly proclaimed that he knew what that was. A Tractor.

Those horses keep going as he's running the hydra fork. Saves on having another man on the job too. As far as harnessing, I can generally get my team harnessed in about 15 minutes. This guy probably does it more often than I do so he can get 6 up and ready in about half hour. They don't have...

Rumensin, is alot more deadly than bovatec. I wouldn't feed bovatec to horses, but have seen them eat bovatec and survive quite well. Bovatec has always been a lot safer, Rumensin has more kick to it in cattle.

I run a wedding carriage service on the side. I use my black percherons in that business. I deduct the cost of those horses, I even depreciate the horses. Floyd's right get a new accountant.

that fort Robinson area was some of the prettiest country I drove through this summer. If I could convince my wife to move there I would. Maybe she would send me a "support" check once a month?