percent of posters actually are farming

[dtridess]

Probably more “wannabe farmers” than real ones here lol, but nothing wrong with that - best tip is try growing something first before going all in.

 

[Texasmark]

Probably more “wannabe farmers” than real ones here lol, but nothing wrong with that - best tip is try growing something first before going all in.

I thought raising honey bees would be a good transition as I age. Thought I would setup one hive and see how it goes.....total disaster......didn't check the hive daily and didn't recognize that the webs developing in the frames weren't caused by spiders.....in a matter of a few days, Wax Moths totally devastated my hive. So much for that bright idea.

 

[showcrop]

I never really farmed but worked with my father who always raised 2 pigs and a beef critter every year . Also had milking cow or two and chickens. Raised a big garden and sold vegetables. I worked out in several places but was a machinist for over 40 years. After My father passed away in 1991 I kept cutting hay and selling it along with my machinist job. Got rid of the animals before he passed away. Now I just cut some hay to keep the fields from turning into a forest. Been on this place for almost 81 years. Nobody in the family has any interest in it other than me and my wife. I have always liked working on old tractors and currently have 12, eight of them running condition.

Do you know of any Tibbetts in North Berwick?

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

I have part of what was my father-in-law's farm. He quit milking in the late 70s then put the fields into hay and kept at it till he passed in '91. After a few years of "on shares" got tired of being screwed so the missus and I started doing it ourselves. The machinery was still here. We put up about 15-18 hundred a year but at 76 it's getting real hard on me and she quit a couple of years ago.

 

[Loosehandle]

How many of us who post on here really farm and how many of us just wish we could farm no insult intended

Just gave up on farming in the last couple years, get big or get out. I have 11 2cyl JDs and do some welding/fabrication and blacksmithing.

 

[Bob NY]

I grew up on a small dairy farm in northern New York. I bought the farm from my parents after college and ran it for 10 years, then sold it to a Mennonite family from Pa. I became an artificial inseminator a few months later and did that for 33 years, visiting thousands of farms in 7 states. I have been retired almost 8 years, living on 5 acres with my old tractors.

 

[SkipperII]

Grew up on the family farm, started working for local farmers at 13, After HS graduation, went to work in a tractor shop, as a mechanic. Raised cattle as a side line. Then went to work for a pea cannery, field shop. Continued to raise cattle with my FIL. Finally gave up on the cattle, when my job at the power company, with irregular hours, and my FIL, and Dad passing, just made it too cumbersome. I still keep my fingers in it, by working on my buddies tractors and equipment. Works out for both of us. Gives me some decent side money, and saves him a pretty good chunk of change.

 

[dixon boy RL]

grew up on farm,grade school years and on was always working with cattle and sheep`and help parents farm little over 500 acres. married in 77 still woprknig the cattle with now brother and father around 500 head fatt cattle and farmed close 3000 acres owned and rented. as of today both parents are gone, brother had stroke. i bought little over 1000 acres of the ground. i also ran a lawn mowwer dealership for 12 years . finally decide to many irons on the plate . we are now closing the dealership, i have rented out most the ground last few years,and still maintain the 300 acres thats in the crp program. been more profitable renting out than when i was farming itlast few years. it will be this year also. we now own over half the wifes farm bought from the estate family fued. 71 now and will be married 50yrs coming up hopefully. wife fully retire from postal carrier , i have not yet fully retired . i do miss the cattle

 

[Bill in Colo]

I live on my family's ranch, which I was the operator of for 40 + years, I now have nothing to do with management. I still have tractors.

 

[trackrat]

I no longer really farm but did for decades. Do I wish I could farm. No but I wish I was in physical condition and could afford to really farm. My interest in YT is old tractors like I used when I first began really farming. I seldom see anything on YT that looks or sounds like really farming, no insult intended.

How bout you, do you really farm?

No I'm just a hobby farmer raise hay do a little custom work, work a little for a BTO neighbor no way I could juggle all that goes into commercial farming now

 

[730virgil]

not anymore once i had about 12 or 15 highland cows and some hay and pasture ground about 4 or 5 years i sold the cows miss them but not making hay