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Post by thefisherj on Dec 28, 2021 4:43:44 GMT -6
Welcome to Graystone North CarolinaHi my name is frank.
Let me tell you my history, I used to do agriculture contracting for a copy of years and then I was offered a job in South Carolina for couple of years which brings me to here, i still work for the Cooper family just at another farm of theirs, to be precise their grandparents farm which is struggling and the grandparents can no longer farm. They have asked me to run the farm with the goal to make it profitable again.
     
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dimi88
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Preferred Brand: Fendt, Renault and i love mb tracs and unimogs!
Farm Location: The western shore and south of Brazil
Farm Size: small, 3 meter equipment.
Livestock: At the moment just sheep in England and some chickens in Brazil. but cows are my favorite!
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Post by dimi88 on Dec 28, 2021 7:56:12 GMT -6
Good luck on your new job, looking forward to hear how this continues!
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Post by thefisherj on Dec 29, 2021 5:32:17 GMT -6
August 2021My first month at the new job went well, I harvested the wheat in field 14 got 23,803L and 119 small square bales which I sold for $5,851 , I'm looking for a better way to bale and store the bales to speed up time and I bought a stihl pressure washer for $1,550
   
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Post by thefisherj on Jan 1, 2022 16:51:50 GMT -6
SeptemberWell as the weather was nice I decided to cut both grass fields for hay which i used a massey ferguson small baler on demo along with a small bale collector which made bundles of 14 small bales into one which i willl use a John Deere 7810 with a frontloader to pick them up next moth which is also on demo.
  
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dimi88
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Posts: 309
Preferred Brand: Fendt, Renault and i love mb tracs and unimogs!
Farm Location: The western shore and south of Brazil
Farm Size: small, 3 meter equipment.
Livestock: At the moment just sheep in England and some chickens in Brazil. but cows are my favorite!
Platform: pc
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Post by dimi88 on Jan 1, 2022 17:40:41 GMT -6
Nice bale collector. 14 at a time, that sure makes the job a lot easier!
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Post by thefisherj on Jan 15, 2022 10:25:04 GMT -6
October 2021So I sold all the hay bales for $17,498 ands i managed to plough all the arable fields for them. Sadly I have fallen out with the farm owners as they seem set in their old ways and wont let me change things to make the farm run more smoothly, so I have handed in my notice in to leave and i will look for a new job.  
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dimi88
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Posts: 309
Preferred Brand: Fendt, Renault and i love mb tracs and unimogs!
Farm Location: The western shore and south of Brazil
Farm Size: small, 3 meter equipment.
Livestock: At the moment just sheep in England and some chickens in Brazil. but cows are my favorite!
Platform: pc
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Post by dimi88 on Jan 15, 2022 11:09:01 GMT -6
Sorry to hear, hopefully you'll find a new job soon!
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Post by thefisherj on Mar 2, 2022 12:24:51 GMT -6
January 2022Well its been 2 months since my last post well I'm back with a update I'm working for an elderly farmer who is looking to retire. The farm is based in Westby Wisconsin. This month wasn't to much to do just snow plowing the farm yard.
     
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Post by thefisherj on Mar 13, 2022 5:52:27 GMT -6
February and marchFebruary was just like January just snow ploughing.
March was a busy month buying the seed and fertiliser for the fields which leaves us with $8,686 in the bank, I cultivated the soybeen fields and rock picked all the fields and took the rocks to the community rock crusher which produces lime for everyone
  
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Post by thefisherj on Mar 15, 2022 13:11:11 GMT -6
AprilWhat a month, planted all the fields. half soybeans and half corn I ran out of solid fertiliser for the last field of soybeans so at a later date i will spread some liquid Fert on it. I have also rolled the fields. when we have enough money i think a fuel tank would be a good purchase as the john Deere 7710 was low on fuel luckily the dealer had 5 25l fuel cannisters i could buy  
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Post by Bryan83 on Mar 15, 2022 18:37:55 GMT -6
Been following your progress to date, and I have one question for you. What is the one thing the dealership could help you out with? I was thinking either 20% off your next fertilizer purchase (liquid or solid) or, we can get you that fuel storage tank for 15% off plus free help with installation, including landscaping services.
Or if you have something entirely different in mind let me know! I'd like to reward you for staying with us in the thin times.
Keep up the blogs!
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Post by thefisherj on Mar 17, 2022 13:56:45 GMT -6
Hey Bryan,
I would like to take you up with your offer of 15% off a petrol pump. I would like a 5,000L litre tank which i believe off the manufactures website costs $5,300.
I will send the money over shortly.
Regards
Frank
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Post by Bryan83 on Mar 19, 2022 23:22:23 GMT -6
$5,300 minus a 15% discount leaves you $4,505 owing. I've sent a crew with all the materials for your complimentary installation. Just be sure to send us some pictures of the finished product!
Happy farming, Frank.
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Post by thefisherj on Mar 20, 2022 3:56:08 GMT -6
MayWell a busy month for me, I ran a weeder through our corn fields, then spent the rest of the month doing some planting contracts and fertilising contracts which gave me enough money to buy a fuel tank, which i got through a online dealer with a 15% discount and free installation which they did a fabulous job of it  .
   
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Post by thefisherj on Mar 20, 2022 3:57:34 GMT -6
$5,300 minus a 15% discount leaves you $4,505 owing. I've sent a crew with all the materials for your complimentary installation. Just be sure to send us some pictures of the finished product! Happy farming, Frank. I've sent the money over by a bank transfer and gave the crew a crate of beer as a thank you |
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Post by Bryan83 on Mar 20, 2022 12:38:19 GMT -6
I'll bet they'll appreciate that. Hopefully there's a couple left by the time they get back.
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Post by thefisherj on Mar 21, 2022 2:38:27 GMT -6
JuneWell time to spray some liquid nitrogen on my last field of soybeans. I then did some planting contracts to finish the planting season and one of the first harvest contracts as the harvest season begins. I went to a farm auction, ended up with a John Deere 620 tractor for $3,000. I bought a John Deere mulcher which I put straight to work on tiding up the long grass in front of the house that cost us $15,000 and spent another $17,500 on a item for the john deere 620. I was checking the sales price of soybeans which was above of last years peak at $1,241 per 1,000 litres which we got $28,799 which $20,000 went in to paying the loan back. we do need another way of transporting the grain to the co-ops
    
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Post by thefisherj on Mar 23, 2022 9:27:18 GMT -6
July August SeptemberNot much doing on our farm, I did Two harvest contracts. I went on a holiday trip to frankenmuth which i helped a farmer harvest his oat field and the disc harrowed for him with his case ih quadtrack then spent the last month just relaxing before the busy harvest month at our farm.
   
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Post by thefisherj on Mar 24, 2022 9:06:08 GMT -6
OctoberSo one busy harvest month harvested all the soybeans and corn fields. we ended with 39,186l of soybeans and 82,167L of corn which I put into the corn dryer.
  
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Post by thefisherj on Mar 24, 2022 15:58:38 GMT -6
November DecemberWell I emptied the corn dryer and put the dry corn into our silo system which we have 78,059L. i spent the rest of the month mulching all the fields and ploughed the corn fields which i have rock picked just ran out of time to lime them which will have to wait till next month.
Unfortunately December it never stopped snowing so i spent most of the time in the house till the dry corn price reaches its peak which it did $695 per 1,000L we got $54,295 which will go towards seeds, solid and liquid fertiliser and maybe any more lime we need. I would like to buy another equipment to improve our yields or another trailer to cart more grain.
     
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Post by thefisherj on Mar 25, 2022 13:35:53 GMT -6
Jan 2023 Feb March
Well not much doing in January and February as we as snowed in. March I limed all the ploughed fields cultivated the soybean fields and de-rocked them with a leased rock pick and what a sweet rock picker it was. Our seeds, fertiliser order came in along with a new roller. I finish the month of by helping some neighbour farmers by planting their oats for them.
    
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Post by thefisherj on Mar 27, 2022 5:41:24 GMT -6
AprilA busy month planting corn and soybeans and then rolling them in between rain showers. 
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Post by thefisherj on Mar 30, 2022 12:21:23 GMT -6
MaySo I bought a weeder to deweed the corn fields, I also have planted few fields for the neighbours. But I have some bad news boss-s wife has fallen badly ill. 
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Post by thefisherj on Mar 31, 2022 12:44:23 GMT -6
JuneWell I manged to spray liquid nitrogen on all our fields. help harvest a neighbour's oat field, sold all the beans at hilltop grains for $1,245 per 1000L which we got $51,897. I then spent the last weekend in Elm creek at a truck auction. Spent $14,000 on a new to us Chevrolet Grain truck. Bosses wife still in hospital having tests done.         
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Post by thefisherj on Apr 3, 2022 8:58:23 GMT -6
JulySo not much doing, paid the loan done to $410,000 with the remaining money from soybeans. helped some neighbours with their wheat harvests. i have asked the boss if i can get a crane to rotate the corn dryer to a better position. We have an update from the hospital the boss's wife has terminal lung cancer. Me and the boss had a meeting, and the outcome is I'm taking full control of the farm which takes effect from next month August they get 40% of the profit.
 
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Post by Bryan83 on Apr 3, 2022 9:12:03 GMT -6
Congrats on taking over the farm, though I wish it were under better circumstances. As always, the dealership is here to assist you with whatever you need and we can of course finance anything we sell. I'm also authorized to extend an operating loan to you, if you just need a little cash for something or if you want to refinance any existing loans for lower interest.
Good luck, my friend.
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Post by thefisherj on Apr 3, 2022 12:10:37 GMT -6
Thanks Bryan, I also wish it was under Circumstances.
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Post by thefisherj on Apr 9, 2022 14:41:53 GMT -6
August and SeptemberSo I went back to frankmuth to help out with the wheat and canola harvest then flew out to greenvalley Nebraska to help out a old school friend.
    
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Post by thefisherj on Apr 12, 2022 11:03:33 GMT -6
OctoberWell it was a busy start to my harvest season ! managed to harvest all my corn fields which totalled to 5.2hA which brought in 105,090L of corn which dried to 100,856L of dry corn, I only managed to harvest nearly two fields of soybeans.
   
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Post by thefisherj on Apr 15, 2022 15:05:47 GMT -6
NovemberWell I managed to finish harvesting 4.64Ha of soybeans which we got 34,289L, mulched all the fields and limed the corn fields then ploughed them.
  
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