Search results for query: *

It’ll be medium rounds or small squares.

The big operator I run cattle for has several, and they are all different brands. They don’t grind hay so they don’t have much to offer in the way of an opinion on one either. As far putting a machine between a cow and their feed source, I am already using my tractor bucket to feed. Right now...

I’m looking into getting a vertical feed mixer. Right now I’m purchasing a premixed feed, but I’m wanting the ability to grind hay too. I also hope to move into commodities and mixing feed. My budget is going to be about 15k USD. I also will run it with 120 horse New Holland, with 100 pto HP...

I’m 32 years old. Cattle and hay are full time for me. My wife owns her own business next town over. We’re not getting rich, but we’re making it. The cattle I run for a big operator, pay the farm bills. My dad comes to help me when he can. He’s wanting to retire again, and so he’s put some money...

I sell the calves for whatever they go through the ring for. The way I see it, I can’t gouge if the buyer is setting the price.

Mine is drill stem. It was built in 1989. We’ve only had this place two years, but I love it. I would definitely build with stem again if I was going to build another. Alleyway is a little bit too wide for small yearlings, but it was built for running momma cows through too. I would make a few...

I bought some cattle at the sale last week from a guy like that. Auctioneer says all his cattle look starved, I bought a couple anyway. Hard for me to pass up 3wt cattle for less than 50 cents a pound.

I sold the rest of my hay off as hay prices seemed to be climbing. I did not raise my prices, because I priced it where it needed to be, for me to make money, from the start. This year, my prices will be higher but I won’t know how much higher until I get fertilizer here. May go back to chicken...

I knew AG was big big business, but I did not know it was #1. I’ve been considering importing some alfalfa hay, for a kind of an experiment, and have seen several listings in NY. My wife, on the other hand, had no idea AG was a thing in NY. She knows now, but like many other people when she...

The traps that I precondition cattle in, I feed about 30 head at time. But any yearling that doesn’t start gaining gets put in a different pen. I sort hard gainers and bottom Enders to be with their kind. This lets strong, big eating yearlings eat their fill, and it gives the weaker cattle a...

I started that way. But cattle and hay are all I do now. My wife works full time, but we’re both doing what we love. I’m giving this all I’ve got. I’d rather try it, than go through life wondering. I turn 33 this year, so nows my chance.

45 days. Grass traps. I usually give little cattle hay with the feed for the first two weeks. The bigger cattle just feed and what grass is in the traps.

Of the 210 head here right now, only 74 belong to us. The rest are being preconditioned for the operator. We’ve been buying small loads of 30 or less. Trying different things to see what works best for us. I pretty much do it alone, except in cases where my dad is able to help me when he’s off...

I got started 5/6 years ago with bottle calves. Then got into miniature cattle, and in 2019 my paw in law had a tree fall on him and I started working his cattle while he was in the hospital. He preconditions cattle for a big local(ish) operator. After he got to where he could go back to doing...

We’re like any other state, with positives and negatives. I was born and raised down here, and just haven’t found reason enough to leave.

South Mississippi, much closer to Louisiana than Alabama. But it’s hard to beat a farm sunset, no matter where it’s at.

This little fella was born two weeks ago. His momma is the red baldy in the background.

I signed up for the site last year, just now getting around to saying hello. I run a small stocker operation and hay business. I jumped in with both feet 2019. Have grown some since then. I love doing what I do, but it’s not always easy. I still have plenty to learn, looking forward to getting...