Recent content by Weaver

We have a John Deere 457 SS and have really liked it. We don't bale many bales with it a year, maybe 700 or so, but have had little issues with it. I haven't ran any other brands so I can't compare. The neighbor does 10,000 plus bales a year custom baling and runs New Holland, although they...

I totally agree that a bull is only worth what people will pay for him. Been to a few sales that the right two people wanted the same bull and ran the price up more than twice what i would have paid for him. Was that bull worth it to me? No, but he was worth it to the person who bought him...

I use an atv seeder to seed rye grass seed. I have spread it on disked ground, over freshly shelled corn fields, and freshly harvested soybean fields. Our seeder covers about a 15 foot swath. Just have to make sure you do it on a calm day or its difficult telling where your seed will end up. I...

We butcher our cattle for our own consumption. My dads side of the family gets together the day after thanksgiving to start the butchering process. Usually butcher 4 steers and 7 or 8 hogs. It is nice to know where our beef comes from and it is very informative to know exactly which cuts come...

There is a story and picture in todays local paper of two men who picked 56 pounds of morrels in three hours in the river bottoms near here. They said they just drove the boat real slow down the river along the bank and would only stop if they could see patches of mushrooms that were thick...

I run cows in a bunch of unreclaimed coal mine ground. Some of the ground is pretty rough and a can't get a tractor down to her. She has been able to get partially up, but just can't get here feet lined out underneath her to stand up straight. Hopefully she continues to improve, but I have my...

We started calving about a week ago and the other night when i got off from a 12 hour shift at work it was raining cats and dogs. I usually check the cows once a day to tag calves and make sure there are no other problems. Well since it was raining when i got off with no let up in sight, I...

I have a very good working relationship with this landlord. Ive baled several hundred round bales for him last year and have taken care of some of his cows on a temporary basis when he has been gone. We would be supplying the bull in this situation and would be buying the weaned calves in the...

We rent some pasture ground from a landlord who also has about 35 head of beef cows himself. He called the other day and said that he had a job offer down in Florida. He said the job would last about three years and wondered if i would be interested in leasing his beef cows and hay ground...

We used to use a a car hood too, but one day got the bright or dumb (depends on how you look at it) of wrachet strapping an old lazy boy reclining chair to the car hood. Actually, with the snow and ice we recieved yesterday, the buddies called this morning and want to meet after dark for some...

Around here most of the farm ground is rented by the farmers. The land owners have to sign a form to have the subsidies transferred from be sent to them to being sent to the farmer. It is then a common practice for the landowner to have a higher rent than they would have if no subsidies were...

Thanks for the advice somn. We ship our cattle to a National Beef packing plant and they aren't paying us any premiums for non hormone treated cattle so I thought we might as well be using implants. Just trying to find the one that will fit the best.

We are working on our genetics. We have 15 head of fat cattle left to sell out of the 55 head that we raise ouselves and out of those 40 head we sold already this fall, we are running 100% choice or better, 12.5% prime, and 48% CAB on our CAB eligible cattle. Even though we select our breeding...

We have never implanted our feedlot cattle before, mainly because the hassle to run them back through the squeeze chute to reimplant them later on. I have been seriously thinking about trying a controlled release implant such as Encore or Revalor XS. Anyone have any experiences with either of...

We deal or did deal with the coal mining companies around here. I know back in the 70's and 80's the coal mining companies bought ground for 10,000 an acre to strip mine the ground. Heard last year of one company about 10 miles from here paying $10,000 an acre to a landowner for right to dig a...