You got any aerial photos of your farm?

[Calhoun Farm]

Here's ours. Not big only 60acres, but we have some nice pastures for hay.


Buildings in yellow are sheds, (one tractor, other is hay), the barn circled in blue.
Pastures 1,2, and 4 never have cattle in them and are only used for hay. We don't let cattle in those because there is no water close. Pasture 3 is where I keep my bull and a few small steers. Pasture 5 is where the largest majority of our cattle stay. Its surrounded by a branch (I guess it what you would call it), and flat as a sheet of paper. Pasture 6 isn't used much but it does have water on it so we could finish steers out on it because its close to the barn for loading/unloading and feeding.

 

[M5farm]

 

[gonzo]

Sweet set up , I'm still tryin to figure out a camera on the ground . I still aint posted a pic of any of my cows. :???:

 

[dun]

Sweet set up , I'm still tryin to figure out a camera on the ground . I still aint posted a pic of any of my cows. :???:

None of the aerials I have shows them either. Haven;t figured that one out.

 

[M5farm]

I was surprised today when I pulled up the photos. They are from around February this year. Probably done with a drone.

 

[greybeard]

The boot shape is mine--rest is National Forest.

A zoomed version--this section is to the far right in the above pic.
Look close, you can see the Charolais.

The area around my pond looked like this when I started:

Actually, it all looked like that--just trees.

 

[Bigfoot]

Had to get creative to get it all in. Hope it worked.

 

[3waycross]

Just found this in a box of old pictures from my Dad. It's a picture of my grandfathers home place north of Trinidad Colorado from 1958. I wish it still looked like this. Less than a year after this was taken they dug another silage pit next to the one in the picture. I remember packing silage in those huge pits for days on end. I still love the smell of that stinky stuff! The were close to 100ft long at least 12 ft wide and over 12 ft deep.

 

[TexasBred]

Love to see places that show all the little out buildings and the trails where folks have been driving etc. Got a good wide road but bet it was probably nothing but gravel. 3-way what are the big rectangular things at the end of the silage pit? Buildings or something stacked?

 

[3waycross]

Love to see places that show all the little out buildings and the trails where folks have been driving etc. Got a good wide road but bet it was probably nothing but gravel. 3-way what are the big rectangular things at the end of the silage pit? Buildings or something stacked?

Those are haystacks. That picture was probably taken in the fall before they chopped corn as the pit looks empty but the haystacks are huge.

If you will notice there is a demolished Silo at the left. One of my grandfathers neighbors fell off that silo and was killed. They knocked it down after that.

The other thing that always stands out to me is the garden to the right of the driveway. That garden was huge and i hoe'd every inch of it many times as a kid!

 

[M5farm]

this is what I got when I was going to go to the archives LOL>

 

[M.Magis]

Couldn't get everything in the frame without zooming so far out it was difficult to see, but I got most of it. At one time the whole farm was fenced and held cattle. The blue outline is all that I've got re-fenced. It looks like more than it is, it's no more than 15 acres. The house in the upper left is mine. The other buildings within the red outline are barns.

 

[M5farm]

here is a overview of family land. Red is mine, Yellow was my brothers now nephews, blue parents, green is my aunts and the green that joins my was my grand parents. purple is our hunting lease we have has for 30+ years

 

[TexasBred]

Those are haystacks. That picture was probably taken in the fall before they chopped corn as the pit looks empty but the haystacks are huge.

If you will notice there is a demolished Silo at the left. One of my grandfathers neighbors fell off that silo and was killed. They knocked it down after that.

The other thing that always stands out to me is the garden to the right of the driveway. That garden was huge and i hoe'd every inch of it many times as a kid!

Dam...glad I didn't have to stack that hay.. I missed the grain bin but did notice the smaller one more to the center as well as the garden. Can also see some worn walking trails...probably from going to the chicken house every day to pick up the eggs. Sounds like he kept you busy buddy (which probably was a good thing). :lol2: :lol2:

 

[3waycross]

Those are haystacks. That picture was probably taken in the fall before they chopped corn as the pit looks empty but the haystacks are huge.

If you will notice there is a demolished Silo at the left. One of my grandfathers neighbors fell off that silo and was killed. They knocked it down after that.

The other thing that always stands out to me is the garden to the right of the driveway. That garden was huge and i hoe'd every inch of it many times as a kid!

Dam...glad I didn't have to stack that hay.. I missed the grain bin but did notice the smaller one more to the center as well as the garden. Can also see some worn walking trails...probably from going to the chicken house every day to pick up the eggs. Sounds like he kept you busy buddy (which probably was a good thing). :lol2: :lol2:

There was 160 acres of alfalfa on that place and we cut it at least three times. Everyone of those bales was put there by hand. I was eight when that was taken and I drove tractor for a large part of that hay. I had forgot how freakin huge we made those stacks.

 

[gizmom]

There is a new app you can download for free called measure my land. It is really useful when you want to plant or purchase fertilizer.

 

[gizmom]

This is the working pens funny the photo must of been taken when we were working a group because you can actually see cows in the pens.



This photo shows someof the farm roadways we use the roadways as alleys to move the cattle.



Hay fields

Farm entrance, Equipment building and roadways.

Gizmom

 

[dun]

Not much with the drawing lines deal.
240 acres

160 acres

 

[gizmom]

Dun

At least you can figure out how to draw the lines lol I was lucky to figure out how to post the picture lol. Beautiful place I love that you have trees, A large portion of our land was crop land with no trees. So we have to provide shade screens in some of the pastures, and they don't do the job that a tree will do as far as providing good shade. What kind of trees do you have in your part of the country?

Gizmom

 

[Calhoun Farm]

How long has the land been in the family? I know around here unless you make a very good 100k + salary theres little chance you can afford to buy property and farm. Meaning starting from nothing. Our place has been in the family since 1985, recent appraisal for property including all buildings and 2 story brick house was over 400k. No way I could afford that in my lifetime and be able to make money on cattle (at least enough to pay the mortgage). Farming nowadays is hard to start if your family didn't years back.