What I'm seeing today

[ALACOWMAN]

old oliver, dont see those around here...few and far between

 

[Limomike]

some good photos there sim-ang.. like seeing a good farm operation, like diesel said.. and not corporate owed.

 

[greybeard]

Nothing fancy--just my little part of the world this week.
The Charolais bull about 9 yrs old now.

The far northeast side pasture--this is the most recent area I cleared and fenced.

Some of the Chars from my bedroom window.

The beefmaster bull and 2 heifers are in a separate pasture to the left of the pics above.
The red cow you can see above is just a crossbred cow--mean as heck when she has a calf. I never turn my back on here and she's the only thing in that little herd that is horned--knows how to use 'em too, but she raises a nice calf.

 

[dieselbeef]

looks alot like fl

 

[circlew]

Dang I thought he was in Florida till I went back and looked.

 

[greybeard]

Nope--East Texas about 45 miles N of Houston, but don't be fooled--it gets dry as a bone and just as brown as west Texas--and just as wet as Fla.
If you look down the fenceline in the 2nd pic above, you will see a green deerstand way off in the background. If you look really close in the pic below, you'll see the same deerstand back in March 2012--exact same location. When it rains a lot up around Huntsville, I have to be ready to move cows--and in a hurry. East Fork San Jacinto River is my East property line.

same day--after I got everything moved back to the west side of the pond.

 

[sim.-ang.king]

old oliver, dont see those around here...few and far between

Use to be (way back in the day) a olie dealer at the county seat. My mother's father had 4 olie tractors, and a pull behind picker.
My uncle has quite a collection of olivers right now at his shop.

Those are some nice chars, greybeard. Wish we still had more of them around.

 

[colleen]

Nice place! Beautiful country up there. Love all the trees.
Colleen

 

[ohiosteve]

I work for a small family owned oil company that also does some farming. So far this fall I've gotten a break from the oil wells and have been helping set up a grain leg and continuous flow dryer. We got it up and running last week and ran corn all day today. 200 bu./acre keeps the grain buggy busy. Beans averaged 60 bu./acre I was surprised as dry as it was this summer.

 

[sim.-ang.king]

Sounds like that farm was in the right spot for rain, steve
Wood spliting time

 

[larryshoat]

Hey sim looks like a slick old 4850!!

Larry

 

[sim.-ang.king]

Yea bought it last year when the IH 1586 went caput.

 

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[High Cotton]

What a shame. Did he look like he was shot or natural causes?

 

[herefordlover]

sim looks like the blue toung is bad in ur area too between us and the neight across the road on around 1000 achers at least 50 dead and i am betting it several more

 

[sim.-ang.king]

Don't know yet what the cause was...I was to busy and he was to stinky!

 

[herefordlover]

the ones i found seem to have smelled even worse than normal dont see to be many critters eating the either. would have loved to seem him alive

 

[sim.-ang.king]

Finally got my sudan hay cut...as you can see it got away from me. Spent a month trying to find someone to cut and bale it. Couldn't find anyone that had time...soooo I had to borrow a mower, and found someone that had time to bale it. Lucky I thought of borrowing the 125 from grandpa also...wouldn't of been too much fun on the 3010 in 40 degree weather.

10 acres cut

Also let the cows out on some stockpiled fescue and fall broad leafs.

The last fall calf born, and he thinks he is the boss man.

 

[jedstivers]

First two loads of calves came on this morning.

 

[sim.-ang.king]

Nice looking stock! what was the avg price for them? How many days are you going to feed them?