Recent content by dave_shelby

Goats are up too?

A fool and his money... Have to admit that auctions make it hard to be wise It's not only the auctioneer but the talk around the food table from the other "buyers".

There is this image of the honest upright American farmer, which by and large is fairly true. Not many want to live this lifestyle. But the folks selling to the farmer seem to attract a lot of schemers and frauds. I got burned myself a couple times. This problem is all over agriculture. I...

Condolences on the flooding. But I appeciate pictures, its quite a mess. Water buffalo weather. After a wet winter its dried out here in the Shenandoah Valley.

Close indeed. Glad you are ok

Appreciate the responses. I've heard horror stories of tearing out rears and trans. I just dumped 6k into this 8240 because it needed a main hydraulic pump and worse the hydraulic line for the clutch blew and it needed to be split. We had a series of expenses of late a my wife is telling me to...

I don't have physical copy of the owners manual but found this online and I can't find any tire combination specs listed in it. It does have the 23.1x34 tire listed but just states for four wheel drive tractors to "always install tires of the same make model and size as those removed". As I...

I have a Ford 8240 4WD with 23.1x34 rear tires and 14.9x28 front tires. They are well worn and I would also like to change out the rears to 18x38 or 20x38 as I have some 16x38 rims setting around. I have read all about keeping the front-rear ratio the same, so with either change I would be off...

That makes sense, you know your market

There is such a mixed opinions on Wagyu. Why aren't they interested in paying more? Are you just burgering them out?

Why are you getting out of wagyu/akaushi?

Might be too late for this, but also consider if there are some young folks interested in working with you all. I know of a few that would love to get started and have the work ethic and skills but are boxed out by cost of land. Local folk seem to only want to rent to established larger...

That's what I use it for, burn down in spring and plant cover then disk and plant perennials in September. @LocustDaleCattleCompany does repeated summer annuals for stockers I believe.

I've done rays crazy summer annual mix a few years. It's 61% cowpea with some Sudan sorghum, pearl millet, radish and sunflower. We graze with polywire divisions and can cycle back and regraze in a 4 weeks time. Good mix but for regrazing it's mostly the sudan sorghum and pearl millet growing...

Prayers for your husband.