@silagechopper Little big Ford was the first front wheel assist tractor my folks had. 5000 was my Granddads. Bought it because it pulled a 4 bottom plow better than a 3020. That’s my fleet.
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Kevin Swenson
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Kevin Swenson
@KSAgMapper
Father, owner of Swenson Ag Services, LLC. We turn data into field decisions! Co-owner of Swenson Herefords, President of Janel’s fan club, farmer in NCKS.
Concordia, KS Se unió Nisan 2016
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@silagechopper I don’t know how many times I hook and unhook my planter and sprayer but it’s a bunch. 1 tractor plants and sprays. One man band. Other tractor loads feed. Little 5000 mows, runs auger, shuffles gear and rakes. Another rig would be really nice. Either MFWD swaths or bales.
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Would this be a bad time to mention that I haven’t had my corn planter unhooked since the spring of 2020?
Grant Wiese@gwiesefarms
My guess is you could get by just fine with 1 less tractor. 🚜 Convenience tractors have become too common and come at a steep price.
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@cmills4370 @uglytruck3r @GitRDoneLarry How many haul hay at a high rate of speed with a police escort to get them through? How many haul hay to nearly a million acres of burned out ranch country?
It’s big news to people who have nothing to feed to 1,000’s of cattle. No grass, no hay, no feed but what’s trucked in.
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@uglytruck3r @GitRDoneLarry So why is this news? People haul hay everyday.
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@mopaksus Is it all in the main arena or are the outbuildings still full of exhibitors? Been several years since I’ve been there.
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@gwiesefarms @CBKimbrell I farm/custom farm 900 acres, hay 100, only hire fert application, have 130K in equipment, 60 cows with my mom, feed out steers every year, and do precision ag stuff (trade/service gps stuff and soil sample and make vr planting/fert recs). 400 irrigated. Always feel behind.
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@CBKimbrell Yes, not a fair question to those with livestock or who are diversified.
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For every 1,000 acres in your operation, how many full time people are on the payroll?
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@silagechopper You have the coolest stuff that you keep working AC in that’s used regularly. I’m impressed.
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Spread manure on this field last fall. 84 degrees out. Figured leveling off the clods was a good excuse to sit in the air conditioner.
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@ScottVanAllen Best advice is to meet up with your niece Katie to stretch your legs for lunch and then ask your daughter to fly in to Houston to join you guys!
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Headed to Galveston area shortly. Will be traveling I-35 from Kansas. Any advice getting around or through Dallas? Looks like a lot of construction in Dallas in 35.
GIF
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@markvoth1 April -5 (March 25) comes sooner than April 1 from my observation. Not knocking early planting but gun jumpers seem to have growing corn on April 1…..
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@cb_catt If you have moisture and can turn tillers into heads you might still be ok. Yes you lost a main head, but with the right conditions tillers can add a bunch of yield. No moisture and no primary head, things look way different.
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Looks like a little more freeze damage showing up in the wheat crop. SRW WC Missouri
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@lrofarmer @591actual I’ll make those decisions closer to planting, poorest ground may be milo, irrigated corn and beans may get planted and then finish on dryland beans and then corn. I have no idea what’s right currently. I’m tired of fighting the lack of rain and timing.
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@KSAgMapper @591actual Our April and June corn was all about the same last year but that’s rare usually it’s one or the other but this year all is in the same county so I gotta pick. Don’t want one to be awesome and one suck
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I remember wheat being an almost sure thing when I was a kid. At least to grow bushels.
We are working on year six of “if it doesn’t rain like 2” and soon, we can just not plan on running this one through a machine”.
Dumb.
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@lrofarmer @591actual I had a 70 bushel difference between April 21 and May 22. Granted it was across the road but that’s significant in a lot of ways.
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@KSAgMapper @591actual Agree completely. June 10th corn would be best but living on shit insurance is also a gamble. Sad when ins companies rule the proper plant date for success.
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@lrofarmer @591actual I considered the dreaded Milo today even. Late May corn has been better than April corn for 4 years, and currently I’m more torn than ever to get out early and roll April 10 or wait till May 20.
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@KSAgMapper @591actual I’m thinking I better start on corn before I can’t get to moisture with a shovel!
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@lrofarmer @591actual I didn’t either, had a set of twins that slowed everything down and wheat took a back burner to corn harvest. Glad I didn’t but second guessing planting decisions now.
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@591actual I didn’t plant an acre of it this year. Price was horrible last fall and it’s been so dry in the spring last few years I just thought to hell with it.
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@591actual Yay another year of dog shit crops and insurance money.
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@tmonteIH He must be the rapper related 2 Chainz….thats his cousin NoChainz
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@iamyourfarmer I have family that shows and we watch them. I’ve never been to the state fair and seen a heifer that wins that I say, I want to take 30 of em to calve out next year. Show ring misses function and does a disservice to kids in terms of $ and functional animals vs real world.
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Somewhere along the way youth sports and livestock shows all lost the script and got ruined. Nothing teaches livestock husbandy like spending 3-5k on a hog just to be competitive at the county level.
Southern FFA Family@FFAFamily
Reagan Miller, 13, of Denver City FFA gets a record breaking $1 Million bid at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo 2026. Reagan Miller exhibited her Grand Champion Market Lamb. In memory of Brittany Ann Hildebrand, her family made the $1 Million bid. Congratulations Reagan!
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@CBKimbrell @nntramp1 Give him a little coffee or a 5 hr energy and watch him attack an udder like it’s his job. Ohh wait, it is
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@nntramp1 So far. Calf still isn’t getting up and walking but he has moved around and is sitting up. I tubed him a half gallon of colostrum before daylight. Hopefully that will give him some umph.
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That was a hard pull. I guess that's why you don't buy a pregnant show heifer at the cattle sale, but she was only $1,800 and I couldn't help it.
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@JerodMcDaniel @gwiesefarms Ironically @JerodMcDaniel, I checked heifers tonight. 10 mile drive to farm and back. Every single place that had bred bovines on it had someone with a spotlight there at 10pm.
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@KSAgMapper @gwiesefarms Fair point, I completely understand, I used to be that guy that checked throughout the night and brought in anything I even had a slight suspicion of a problem.
I’ve found now that usually nature works itself out more often than not.
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Diversification of income within the operation can be your saving grace.
There are synergies and huge market advantages to having both crop and livestock.
Why do people shy away from this financial superpower so much?
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