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I have some family members who are farmers but I really know nothing about it.
anyone do farming as a job or collage course
hay im doin farming at collage and just wonderin if anyone else does farming
I have some family members who are farmers but I really know nothing about it.
We can only learn to love by loving. - Iris Mudoch, British writer
My in laws are farmers. I go up when I can to help haul grain or whatever I can do to help out. 4 family members farm 5600 acres, I just help when needed and my health allows. I kind of farm here at my home. We put out a big garden and I put out food plots for the wild animals to eat during the winter. I love the fresh air and the dirt between my toes at the farm. It's so relaxing to go up there and just walk all over the place. I hunt 500 acres of the farm and there is a lake to fish in. I'd like to move up there and get away from these crazy city people around me. Not meaning all city people are crazy, just the ones around my home.
Livestock or Arable?Originally Posted by bonniebonbon
I have no idea about crops but i do live in moo cow countryHerefordshire cattle are huge here, but if you drive 20 minutes down the road youre in sheep country. It something that I always notice, not particularly the changes in landscape, but the changes in livestock.
“As you regonise that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.”
I grew up on a small farm. My mother put in about 2 acres of flowers which we all helped with when selling them along with vegetables. Picked apples in the Fall, cherries once in the Summer. Drove various tractors before I got a driver's license. Had cousins into dairy farming. Worked at a plant nursery in high school. Making a good living at farming is hard and your always at the mercy of the weather. If you want to mechanize you have to go big. 8 hours a day, ha, never. If the weather doesn't get you, the bankers will. Whenever you have a bumper crop, everyone else does too and the price you will get won't cover your costs.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
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hay guys i mean livestock farming, whats your favourite cow, sheep, pig breed?.
i go to plumpton collage which is in netherfield battle we cover over 6 farms which includeds jobs like feeding bedding up and cleaning pens for cattle sheep and pigs, we also do estate skills like putting up electric fencing and normal farm fencing from scratch.
we have 2 landenies (cant spell it lol) a massey ferguson 365 and 135 plus a lil red tractor for doin the barn out.
farm life is qwite hectic down here with all the health and saftey, my farm brings on over 6 different schools with between 30 and 80 kids a day, weve had our barn set a light due to vandils and our land rover nerly nicked due to stupid imuture kids who cant clearly see plumpton collage logo acroos each side lol ( and tracking system) xx
Livestock farming is usually never just about livestock, but also raising feed for the animals. Buying feed is usually too expensive. I didn't see any courses that you have taken on waste management, dry or slurry.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
Patrick Henry
Oh!! I just squealed with excitement at this question haha! I dont have a favourite cow breed, I like black ones (haha!) but I do love Texel sheep (lambs especially) they got like these big butt heads and squidgy noses and are just soooo cute. Sorry, this probably isnt the type of conversation that you want to be having
Pigs are great, except for this new craze with micropigs...what is that all about?
Farm life is hectic! A lot of people think its a breeze, but its a full time job without a doubt. Good luck with college
“As you regonise that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.”
miffed23 = this is the convesation i want.. i love aberdeen angus bulls and the brown sheep.. we rescued a baby lamb about 6 months ago who was at deaths door.. she couldnt move or nothing but now she runs around bounces she is asdorable lol we called her poppy xx
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