Major Growing Zones Corn

[quantumleap]

As a young lad, I detassled corn in the boy scouts. I learned how to survive in the wilderness and how to protect myself from wild bears, while you were being fed oatmeal out of a silver spoon in Beverly Hills.

Did you ever walk bean fields pulling weeds?
How about throwing hay bales onto a flatbed and hauling them to the barn and throwing them on a conveyor to the upper loft?

 

[BigJay]

Which state is the largest producer of Soylent Green?

 

[jjgold]

I forgot more about farming than most of you here

I follow crop reports very closely

 

[BobbyFK]

JJ do you still post in that farm and ranch forum?

Farm and ranch forum?

 

[slickfazzer]

Farm and ranch forum?

Bobby, as FH mentioned, i think it was AGWEB.

 

[Tanko]

Did you ever walk bean fields pulling weeds?
How about throwing hay bales onto a flatbed and hauling them to the barn and throwing them on a conveyor to the upper loft?

I've checked all those boxes:

Walked Beans
Detassled corn
Baled hay (small square bales that you stack on a wagon).
Raised a baby calf with a feeding bottle 3x a day.
Broke the ice on the frozen pond so the cattle had water.
Shoveled the cow s#it out of the barn

 

[Tanko]

What's the reason why the gov't will pay farmers not to grow corn?

Indirectly it was government support of the farmers. It was a way for the government to help keep crop prices elevated. Higher prices kept farmers from going broke.

It was called the "set-aside" program. If you joined it, you had to fallow your land for 10 years and you were paid by the government to do so. You wouldn't make as much money was you could if you were farming the land but you had zero costs since the land wasn't used.

If you quit before the 10 yrs was up, the government would want some money back.
The county would have audits to make sure you weren't using part of the land. If you were, you were fined.

 

[jjgold]

No I got thrown off accused of insider trading

 

[BMR Genie]

Indirectly it was government support of the farmers. It was a way for the government to help keep crop prices elevated. Higher prices kept farmers from going broke.

It was called the "set-aside" program. If you joined it, you had to fallow your land for 10 years and you were paid by the government to do so. You wouldn't make as much money was you could if you were farming the land but you had zero costs since the land wasn't used.

If you quit before the 10 yrs was up, the government would want some money back.
The county would have audits to make sure you weren't using part of the land. If you were, you were fined.

I see.. as long as it's for good intentions, then no complaints with that.

 

[jjgold]

Many farms out here
Cattle mainly

 

[fishhead]

Did you ever walk bean fields pulling weeds?
How about throwing hay bales onto a flatbed and hauling them to the barn and throwing them on a conveyor to the upper loft?

HOARDS and HOARDS of days here

Many days walking beans 530am to 6pm......hoe or cornknives, mostly the latter.