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I was watching a snippet of a Bernie speech about tuition free college at public schools. Anyone have any idea how that would affect college sports since a scholarship wouldn't mean as much? I know there is talk of paying college athletes and we are probably headed that way to some degree...

Have a young (350 lb.) heifer calf with it's second rectal prolapse in 4 weeks. It is still nursing the cow and getting whatever alfalfa hay or SS balage it wants. What are the odds that it will keep happening if corrected?

I want to build a fence on some property and have a few questions. The legal description is South 1/2 of NW 1/4 of section 30. The property across the road is a full 160 in the legal description and has corner markers in the center of the road on both ends. First question - the new property...

Bought a small group of bred cows back in March. One cow was usually off by herself. One evening someone stopped by saying it looked like a cow was tangled up in electric fence. I go check and she is standing there just kind of zoned out, you could see her twitch every time she got a shock...

We bought another farm last fall and used equipment as collateral. The bank with the mortgage just asked to be named "Loss Payee" on the equipment with the insurance company. While I understand that bank requesting this; I am wondering if they can force me to do this at this point? My...

Might be a dumb question but... Tried to put a little air in a fluid filled rear tractor tire (with tube) last night. Added a little air, checked with pressure gauge, and when gauge was pulled off, air started coming out stem. Decided to try a new valve core, and when taking existing core out...

The radio on one of our tractors keeps shutting off, hit the power button and it usually comes back on same station, but sometimes will lose the station also but saves the presets. Figured it is a ground issue so took ground wire off and was going to clean paint of where it was grounded but...

Neighbor buys a couple stocker calves every spring and butchers them in the fall. Wednesday was butcher day, and one of their heifers got out and ended up in my pasture. They called and told me what had happened and asked if they could just shoot it in my pasture, load it on their trailer and...

I had 20 lbs per acre of Sorghum-Sudan blown on 17 days ago in dry conditions. Packed it with a brillion seeder. Since, we have recieved several 1/4" rains and one 1" rain last week. The s-s is very, very spotty in coming up. When do I give up on it? I am thinking of going over it with the...

I have an IH 1086 with a torque amplifier. I only rarely used the TA level, but the low side went out (that was where I usually had it set). I am now getting conflicting information on the proper use of the TA lever. Is it basically like another high-low range that I can change on the go...

This is may be a dumb question but... I currently only have a headgate for working cattle. It works fine but some animals move around a lot - back and forth, down on knees, etc. and it slows things down. So I am finally thinking of getting a squeeze chute. I am curious if castrating is...

A while back someone asked a question about how long to leave chemicals in a sprayer. Well, I found out 12 days is too long. I was spraying Halex GT on corn and when I finished the first fields I had 50 gallons in the sprayer. I was planning on finishing up the rest in a few days but between...

My father-in-law and his sister inherited a farm from their dad when he died. His sister would like to sell but FIL wants to keep it in the family; so my wife and I are buying the sisters half on a contract for deed. We have a contract written up and are ready to sign with a Notary Public. In...

Yesterday afternoon I found a 400 pound calf with wad of hay stuck in its mouth. I kept checking it for the next hour or so and determined that it was indeed "stuck". The calf was drooling, and attempting to cough but could not dislodge the hay. So I run it in the chute and pull the hay out...

This spring I bought a new Kubota M8560 with the new DPF exhaust system. I was mainly using it for loader work and feeding and the 1st DPF regeneration was at 12 hours and the 2nd was at 23 hours. The last couple weeks it has been used for planting corn and mowing hay and it is now at 50 hours...

I was on a cattlemen's tour a couple of years ago and one of the places that we stopped at had asphalt in their pens. I'm not sure of any details such as thickness, how long had it been in, or if it had heaved and cracked since it had been in. I would like to pour some concrete, but because of...

In light of my chore tractor problems I am probably going to get a new loader tractor. But I would like some opinions on some things. I will be using the tractor mostly for 6X4 round bales and loading silage but would also like to be able to hook up to a baler (again 6X4 bales) and an 11'...

I was hauling bales out to the cows the other night with a Case-IH 885 tractor and after hauling a couple bale out I went to pick up another bale and when I let the clutch out - nothing. It has a 4 speed with High, Low, Reverse transmission. No shuttle. It shifts fine with no grinding into...

The last few breeding seasons I have used a Lowline bull on my Angus and Baldy heifers. I wasn't sure what to expect and with several posts on here wondering why someone would ever do something like that because the calves would be junk, I was really curious. Well after a tough winter I...

I thought I had run across a fenceline round bale feeder somewhere in the past but I can't seem to find anything on the internet so maybe I just dreamed it. Anyway, I am remodeling a dairy barn for feeding cattle and the current setup is really nice for feeding grain but I am looking for ways...