Fighting 'Solar Farm' Installation

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Everybody has the right to their own opinions...!

I didn't mean to start an argument and really like lots of things you say, /pine, but everyone has opinions and certainly not all opinions are facts just like no one is right 100% of the time on everything (except my dear wife ). Like everything farming had it's beginnings and my understanding is corn originally started very small, nothing like we have known for years. Is corn a crop? Of course. Grass fed beef cows graze pasture and are fed hay.
I'll ask my hay farming friend if he believes hay is a crop! $Millions in equipment, fertilizer, pesticides, weed control, seed, irrigation, planting, harvesting, baling.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Now I did work with a woman that had a custom haying business. She had two tractors, two bailers, wagons, etc...

She would harvest for other people, and keep half of the hay and sell it on the open market. I'm not sure I'd call her a farmer. But she was involved in agriculture.

However, Webster's Dictionary definition is:

a person who cultivates land or crops or raises animals (such as livestock or fish)

That's a pretty broad brush, so I'm gonna call her a farmer.

One person with one dairy cow selling 40 gallons milk a week is a farmer.

 

[/pine]

I didn't mean to start an argument and really like lots of things you say, /pine, but everyone has opinions and certainly not all opinions are facts just like no one is right 100% of the time on everything (except my dear wife ). Like everything farming had it's beginnings and my understanding is corn originally started very small, nothing like we have known for years. Is corn a crop? Of course. Grass fed beef cows graze pasture and are fed hay.
I'll ask my hay farming friend if he believes hay is a crop! $Millions in equipment, fertilizer, pesticides, weed control, seed, irrigation, planting, harvesting, baling.

What argument...??
I could not care less about technicalities or nomenclature...just a hill of beans (NPI)...

BTW...around here...nobody spends anything on pesticides, weed control, irrigation etc., etc...on hay fields...fertilizer they get for free...lots of poultry farmers here... hay is second...

I just got off the phone with a friend's lawyer...the friend owns several sod farms in West central FL....they are owned through several offshore LLCs...my friend just sold me a small plot in the middle of one of the sod farms...I leased it back to him but I am still partial owner of a sod farm...so now I'm a farmer too...!!!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Then you understand exactly what I mean.

I'm sure Baker and Sons sells a lot more haybines and rakes than they do corn choppers and silage wagons.

Yep, they sure do.
Probably Lashley also.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I fixed it for ya...!

No, but anytime you want to help put in hay, we could use the help. Then cows don’t make their own hay.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

There’s been more sh.. spread in this thread than a farmer puts on a hay field.

 

[/pine]

No, but anytime you want to help put in hay, we could use the help. Then cows don’t make their own hay.
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Usually hot dusty work (especially the later cuts) nothing easy about it for the laborers...(farmhands)...

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

No, but anytime you want to help put in hay, we could use the help. Then cows don’t make their own hay.
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Dad & I got up hay for his horses. He used a sickle bar, raked it in wind rows. Then he drove tractor while I pitchforked it into trailer.
That was a heck of a job!

 

[Hughman]

Seems like this thread has gone off the rails. What does all this hay/farming talk have to do with solar panels?

 

[Hay Dude]

A bit self-contradictory don't you think?

OMG!
OK, so let me know where all the “Murrican made“ phones are, K?

Like I have a choice?