John Deere Green

[RobS]

Wow, great pictures and impressive farm!

It's been wet here too, probably why he's unloading on the road in my original post.

 

[radios1]

I can稚 even BEGIN to wrap my head around the ?5,000 acres?

that's Millionaire talk for I've got a Farm!!..

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I can稚 even BEGIN to wrap my head around the ?5,000 acres?

That's 40 square miles! Five miles X eight miles! Just looked it up; the Drummond ranch (the Pioneer woman) is 433,000 acres (675 sq. miles); one of the largest private land holdings in the world.

 

[ovrszd]

I can稚 even BEGIN to wrap my head around the ?5,000 acres?

This year they'll harvest somewhere around 2,250,000 bushels of corn. That's somewhere around 2,700 semi loads.

I very much enjoy watching them and visiting with them. They are a great bunch of guys. I'm Blessed to have them as neighbors and friends.

 

[ovrszd]

That's 40 square miles! Five miles X eight miles! Just looked it up; the Drummond ranch (the Pioneer woman) is 433,000 acres (675 sq. miles); one of the largest private land holdings in the world.

Doug, the patriarch of the family owns 11,750 acres of tillable land. The two boys in their late 30s are buying more land as they can afford to. They are the fourth generation.

The originator's farm borders mine. When I was a kid I'd run a JD 4020 doing fall tillage work for them. Mid 60s. No cab. Fender mounted radio. Probly contributes to my hearing loss.

 

[bridge4]

That is impressive, would love to watch them harvest sometime. Around here the farms are much smaller and basically they all use grants to make any money/survive. They make real money on those big farms? Or just lots of ethanol subsidies?


**Not knocking any of these farms, I'd rather subsidies for farms than other nonsense. Also, the ones around here do a lot of community things that really add to the towns, just curious if anyone farming makes any actual money**

 

[Big Barn]

When I was a kid I'd run a JD 4020 doing fall tillage work for them. Mid 60s. No cab. Fender mounted radio. Probly contributes to my hearing loss.

Wait! What??? You had a RADIO with you (albeit fender mounted) in the 60’s????

I was running tillers at 1900 engine RPM, creeper gear, non cab tractors in that same time frame. I wouldn’t have been able to hear a radio and dust would have killed it in a couple of hours anyhow

 

[radios1]

That is impressive, would love to watch them harvest sometime. Around here the farms are much smaller and basically they all use grants to make any money/survive. They make real money on those big farms? Or just lots of ethanol subsidies?


**Not knocking any of these farms, I'd rather subsidies for farms than other nonsense. Also, the ones around here do a lot of community things that really add to the towns, just curious if anyone farming makes any actual money**

in States where it's legal, farms make huge amounts of money growing Marijuana, that's about all that'll be paying off actual money!. you read about traditional farmers going down the tubes quite often!.

 

[hosspuller]

in States where it's legal, farms make huge amounts of money growing Marijuana, that's about all that'll be paying off actual money!. you read about traditional farmers going down the tubes quite often!.

“There’s always been a misperception from people outside the cannabis industry that it is a gold mine,” said attorney Joe Rogoway, who runs his cannabis-focused practice from offices in Santa Rosa and Southern California. “Companies were able to raise a lot of money, expand rapidly and delay having to deal with market realities.”

Legal growers and associated businesses have to compete with the black market. California taxes are killing their golden goose.

Northern California marijuana companies lay off workers, adjust expectations

 

[Diggin It]

Only 4? I've seen 6 at a time running, with 5 or 6 semis running in and out all day. Last year, they descended on the fields like locusts about 2PM one day, ran continuous all night and vanished by 6AM.