Recent content by hillbilly beef man

Kenny, I think that they have smoother/flatter fields than we do. Anything much over 5 mph and I can't stay in the seat.

Trailer with a cut gate with a cow in heat in the front compartment. Bull will load himself.

Have thought about a used gravity wagon if you can park it in the dry? You can usually find one for less than $1,000 and the feed keeps good for months. Mine holds 4 tons. 3 sheets of plywood makes a decent lid.

I had a friend that had his place logged and did not have any calves for a few years while he rebuilt fences. He gave me 500 lb that was two years old that was stored in a 5 ton skid bin. It looked good and fed fine. He did have the bin in the shade which I am sure cut down on condensation in...

We normally get between 55 and 65 inches a year. The Southern Appalachian highlands where I live is considered a deciduous rain forest. Pasture rarely runs short, but getting hay up dry is a challenge.

After watching Neco I think that Milton not playing improved their odds of winning.

33.8 inches. That is about half what we get most years. Is it normally that dry?

So far it looks like leaving Florida State out of the playoffs was the right decision.

Sadly overall in agriculture i believe we have become a victim of our own success. My grandfather started building this farm after WW2. He worked a plant job and paid for 3 farms with 40 cows and 7 acres of burley tobacco. Until we got a round baler in 1994 very little had changed on the farm...

You are not too far from the truth. I got a couple of loads off of a guy last year on Dulaney rd in Moshiem. It took me two hours each way in my old dump truck. I worked in Mountain City for 11 years and drove from Roan Mountain. If I had to drive my truck from Mountain City to Moshiem I...

I am in Roan Mountain. I told you wrong, it is only 65 miles to Moshiem, not 80.

I like ear better for a finishing rational because of the roughage in the cob, but it is getting harder to get. When I cannot get ear corn I put a few square bales of poor quality first cutting hay in place of the cob when I grind shelled. I might have to hit you up, Moshiem is about 80 miles...

One guy I buy ear corn from already has a 70 head finishing barn up and going. Another guy I buy from is putting up a 150 head barn right now. Both are intending to finish for the new plant. It looks like I am going to have to eventually grow my own corn if the plant ever gets open. 125 head...

I am afraid if it gets in your blood you can never get away from catle. When I was very young I raised bottle Holsteins that I halter broke. There was an old man in his late 80s who would buy one off of me every spring. He would stake it out in his yard all summer to keep the grass ate off...

I bought a 9 ft 2 in cut Krone in 2014 and all I have done to it is change blades a few times. This has been used to mow 125 acres of steep, rough ground twice a year. I only have a couple of fields that I can mow faster than 5 mph and stay in the tractor seat, and I spend more time looking...