per
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The last few years the grain farm has helped the ranch. It was the other way around for a long time.
What do you do to stay ranching?
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I Luv Herfrds
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We also raise winter wheat and malt barley.
Pretty much the only way to stay in business around here, unless you have over 8000 acres in solid crop.
Pretty much the only way to stay in business around here, unless you have over 8000 acres in solid crop.
Triangle Bar
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Be Diversified.
If one crop fails or the market is in the dumps....chances are your other crops will pull you through a tough year.
I raise grain, hay & cattle and do some custom haying & truck driving as well.
If one crop fails or the market is in the dumps....chances are your other crops will pull you through a tough year.
I raise grain, hay & cattle and do some custom haying & truck driving as well.
burnt
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I have a small fabricating business which helps keep the wolf from the door but the product is for farm application mainly so when farm income drops off, I feel it in the farm and the business as well!! :?
burnt
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Silver said:
Need any help? I can provide my own pillow. . . .
leanin' H
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Heck, I'll come too and I don't need a pillow! :lol:
OldDog/NewTricks
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I was/am an Self Employed Electrician (For Money) and a Day Worker Riding Pens in a Feed Lot (For Knowledge) - and Rode Colts (For Broken Boned) 65 Years
leanin' H
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Workin' here at night.
Are you a hobo? :???:
Just kiddin'! You been workin' on the railroad! No, not a hobo but when you do come in contact with them it really starts the heart pumping. I have only come in contact with a few of them. They really put the chills down your spine when you are walking down a train and out of pitch black darkness, someone asks "where am I?"
Soapweed
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OldDog/NewTricks said:I was/am an Self Employed Electrician (For Money) and a Day Worker Riding Pens in a Feed Lot (For Knowledge) - and Rode Colts (For Broken Boned) 65 Years
That is a pretty good picture, OD/NT. Did you draw it?
hillsdown
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Silver said:
Are you going to be busy this winter ?
Everyone here that would take summers off is grabbing whatever job comes up, we just don't know how much of an oilfield there will be in the next months or year.
hillsdown said:
It's hard to say, depends on who you listen to. My guess is that if the price of natural gas doesn't go up substantially it will be pretty slow. Having said that, there is always work for 'good hands', so if it's slow I'll get to find out which category I fit into :wink: If there isn't a spot for me supervising I'm sure I can find a seat on a dozer or a hoe.
gcreekrch
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Work. Don't hire done what you can do yourself. Shop for deals and spend your money wisely. Borrow money only if it will make you money, not because you think you have to.
Buying the top selling cows at a sale and new machinery is the quickest route to going broke.
Buying the top selling cows at a sale and new machinery is the quickest route to going broke.
Ben H
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Unfortunately I have an off farm job, it's with a company that uses goats to make antibodies that are sold to companies making diagnostic kits.
brushpopper
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I agree with you gcreek and I also think you should never buy a new four-wheeler!!!!
gcreekrch
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brushpopper said:
Two out of three, not another one. You know what they say, " One man's trash is another man's treasure." OldDog/NewTricks
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Soapweed said:OldDog/NewTricks said:I was/am an Self Employed Electrician (For Money) and a Day Worker Riding Pens in a Feed Lot (For Knowledge) - and Rode Colts (For Broken Boned) 65 Years
That is a pretty good picture, OD/NT. Did you draw it?
Are you kidding? I have a hard time Drawing Water...