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    Lightning Starts a Tractor

    Long, long time since I posted in these parts but figured some of you might enjoy this tale: https://www.facebook.com/lapsleyorchard/posts/4443578052320559 We had one of the best lightning storms I can remember in a long while for both duration and intensity roll through my town around 3am...
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    OT- Chinese Quality

    Half of it is we're the ones buying it, half of it is there's usually only one or a few companies selling it. When folks just out to make a buck take over a company like Irwin, it becomes a win-win if they can sell a tool for 50% less, make 25% more profit on each, and sell you that same tool...
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    anyone have experience with gov grants/fencing off creeks?

    Never seen 40,000 pounds of deer standing in a brook before. Saw more then that in beefers doing so last week. Scale and intensity matter. And that's the difference between a few isolated deer, or even a migratory herd of bison who in years gone by might have pooped in the river as they...
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    new is it worth growing corn?

    Growing commodity corn in an area "a lot of old farms around here went under" doesn't sound like much of a business plan...never mind looking to get rich, I'm not sure you'd cover expense + depreciation on a scale of 30 to 60 acres. I don't know where you live (other then in Wisconsin) or...
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    Green???? Not tractors!

    That's how I buy mine from a local soda company :) I think the "old fashion" line made with real sugar is 50 cents per 12oz bottle. Bottles are heavier then the beer bottles, etc you buy these days too -- because they actually re-use the bottles, not crush them for recycling. Company's...
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    Tomato plant 'suckers' remove or not?

    I tie mine up "Florida" style in rows with baling twine with a t post every 8 feet or so. Low lying suckers get cut off to improve aircirculation around the plant to reduce danger of certain blights in damp whether
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    Seeding rye question

    I believe 2,4-D is State Restricted in Massachusetts for quantities larger then what a homeowner would pickup off the shelf.
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    Beef gain on alfalfa...how will they taste

    I'm in a rural area but probably count as a city since we're surrounded by a sea of blue. Anyway, I've noticed in the last couple years the "local foods" has really started to gain traction in my area. I think it has the critical mass now not to be a simple fad, might never be a huge...
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    garden irrigation

    My experience when I tried it was I used an awful lot of gas for the amount of water delivered...looked impressive while running though. Some of the inefficiency was likely using garden hoses and bargain store sprinklers...still my gut says it was a fundamental mismatch between too much pump...
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    Gardens how are your doing this year

    I'm finally hitting my stride and couldn't be more pleased. Reckon I'm on track for it to be a show garden next year :D Not to say I haven't had some failures -- I planted some seeds in a few rows that haven't been developed quite as much as others (garden is on top of gravel fill so I keep...
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    Best Small Acreage (Legal) Crop

    Around here, for a one man part-time operation it would be hay...particularly if you can make up a mix horsey folks like. Prices seem to be running $4.50 field, $5 barn, $6 delivered for 40# bales this year...$3 for mulch hay. Field corn all goes to silage here, so not much of a market (most...
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    O/T Garden Tool Rant

    lol I was thinking the very thing at Agway this morning. Just picked up a tear-drop shaped on my way by...if it was a mason's trowel it was thick enough to last the mason from trade school to social security.
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    We are creating our own problems!!!!!!! (Long rant) LOL

    There's nary a difference between unrestrained Capitalism & Communism -- both will mow down the society they're in with an unbridled, dogmatic enthusiasm that their way is the only one true way.
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    Tornado just destroyed our Woods

    That"s exactly what I was thinking. Why on God"s green earth would you spend money buying gas and put wear and tear on pickups and chainsaws for $25/load? If I"m going to spend that much time and effort for that little money, I"d rather just give it away for free to deserving poor and have...
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    Joplin Strom

    EF-4 in the preliminary survey...but only by 2mph. The initial assesment was max. 198mph winds...takes 200 to be EF-5!
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