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09-05-2021, 06:23 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Livermore
Posts: 5,183
M.O.C. #1920
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Best of luck on the new assignment.
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09-05-2021, 07:32 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Anderson
Posts: 2,787
M.O.C. #22835
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We live in the country, surrounded by fields (across the road and behind the house). The crops rotate every year, and they are opposite behind and in front of the house. Beans one year, Corn the next. I love when the corn is behind the house because it makes a fantastic wall of privacy. There are a few other houses scattered around here.
It's always exciting to watch the farmers work their fields through their two year cycle, from preparing the ground in the fall after the last harvest, to prepping again in the spring, planting, cultivating, and then the growth periods. Next, watching the crop go through their annual cycle, young tender plants popping up through the dirt, maturing, turning brown and then finally the combines harvesting. And then the cycle starts over for the second year.
I'm a country boy, raised on a small farm, my first job I had where I actually got paid money from someone other than my parents was when I was 15 years old, bailing hay for a farmer down the road from my parents. At $1.00 an hour, I made $300 that summer.
If you have never lived in a country setting before.... truly a country setting .... with fields across the road from you ... you are in for a delightful new experience watching the 4 seasons and the life cycle of the community you are in.
Never, never, never get upset when you are driving down the road and get behind a farm tractor, a combine, a cultivating machine, or a load of hay on the back of a hay wagon. These guys are making their living, they work hard, and those machines cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase, operate, and upkeep. Be patient and rather than getting upset because you are forced for follow a slow moving vehicle, step back, .... take in the moment .... and gain a new appreciation for the life-style surrounding you.
Congrats on your new work assignment. I guarantee you, after 2 years of living in your current environment, returning to a state park campground or a commercialized private campground like KOA will seem like returning to the Las Vegas strip!
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09-05-2021, 08:45 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Sioux Falls
Posts: 664
M.O.C. #10985
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DutchmenSport
We live in the country, surrounded by fields (across the road and behind the house). The crops rotate every year, and they are opposite behind and in front of the house. Beans one year, Corn the next. I love when the corn is behind the house because it makes a fantastic wall of privacy. There are a few other houses scattered around here.
It's always exciting to watch the farmers work their fields through their two year cycle, from preparing the ground in the fall after the last harvest, to prepping again in the spring, planting, cultivating, and then the growth periods. Next, watching the crop go through their annual cycle, young tender plants popping up through the dirt, maturing, turning brown and then finally the combines harvesting. And then the cycle starts over for the second year.
I'm a country boy, raised on a small farm, my first job I had where I actually got paid money from someone other than my parents was when I was 15 years old, bailing hay for a farmer down the road from my parents. At $1.00 an hour, I made $300 that summer.
If you have never lived in a country setting before.... truly a country setting .... with fields across the road from you ... you are in for a delightful new experience watching the 4 seasons and the life cycle of the community you are in.
Never, never, never get upset when you are driving down the road and get behind a farm tractor, a combine, a cultivating machine, or a load of hay on the back of a hay wagon. These guys are making their living, they work hard, and those machines cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase, operate, and upkeep. Be patient and rather than getting upset because you are forced for follow a slow moving vehicle, step back, .... take in the moment .... and gain a new appreciation for the life-style surrounding you.
Congrats on your new work assignment. I guarantee you, after 2 years of living in your current environment, returning to a state park campground or a commercialized private campground like KOA will seem like returning to the Las Vegas strip!
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And where is this wondrous place located? I am not a farm person but that sure would be interesting.
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09-05-2021, 12:33 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Salem
Posts: 7,670
M.O.C. #2283
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I’m like DutchmenSport. I love the big farm country. To watch a combine harvest a field is something to enjoy. And about the cost of farm equipment. I talked to a John Deere salesman a few years ago. He had sold 3 combines to a farmer. He had paid for two and financed one at $760,000 each. That is a lot of wheat.
Lynwood
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09-05-2021, 12:37 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Florence
Posts: 963
M.O.C. #20472
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This place is in Batesville ms, it’s name is Delta RV Park. It has maybe 20 spots. While I’ve not been raised on a Farm my family with exception of me were farmers in Kansas when they settled in from Sweden/ Germany in 1895. Somewhere in the late 60 the family sold off the land. We’ve raised, Hog, steers, chickens, rabbets and such but nothing large scale.
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