Hello, people. Does anyone here with experience in agriculture or livestock give me some beginner tips? At this point in the world, I'm considering just living a rural farming life.

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Re: Farming Tips
By: Tortillaretreat to All on Sat Jan 23 2021 07:26 pm

Hello, people. Does anyone here with experience in agriculture or livestock give me some beginner tips? At this point in the world, I'm considering just living a rural farming life.

you are looking in the wrong place dude. we run bbses. this isnt farmer's corner.
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Hello, people. Does anyone here with experience in agriculture or livestock giv
me some beginner tips? At this point in the world, I'm considering just living
a rural farming life.

There is a fellow on here who goes by the handle of Arelor. He keeps livestock, but also lives in Spain.


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Hello Tortillaretreat!

** On Saturday 23.01.21 - 19:26, Tortillaretreat wrote to All:

Hello, people. Does anyone here with experience in agriculture or
livestock give me some beginner tips? At this point in the world, I'm considering just living a rural farming life.

Try to find yourself a copy of this:

You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a
Farming Enterprise | Paperback

Joel Salatin

Technology & Engineering / Agriculture - Organic / Agriculture -
Sustainable Agriculture / Business & Economics /
Entrepreneurship

Published Jun 1, 1998
$35.00 US / $49.95 CA list price

My family moved out of the city in the late 60's when I was
turning 9. We started farm operations. It was not fully
sustainable without some kind of outside income.


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Re: Farming Tips
By: Dumas Walker to TORTILLARETREAT on Sun Jan 24 2021 09:44 am

Hello, people. Does anyone here with experience in agriculture or livestock giv
me some beginner tips? At this point in the world, I'm considering just living
a rural farming life.

There is a fellow on here who goes by the handle of Arelor. He keeps livestock, but also lives in Spain.

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Yeah, but I don't make a living out of it either.

If you plan to make business with this sort of thing you need 40-50 cows minimum. I don't know how much surface you need if you want to get into corn, because the prices keep getting lower each year and I have lost count.

If you want to get a domestic harvest started, maybe try to see which kind of plants grow well in your area, then investigate how to conservate it after harvesting, and then plant a whole ton of it. In my case it is potatoes and tomatoes. You risk going bored ( I actually don't because I love potatoes) but you are not going hungry.

I don't keep livestock for comsumption or anything. If you keep big numbers of big animals you are up to a logistic nightmare because you have to secure pasture deals each year and supplement that with bales of hay. Hay takes a lot of room to store and you have to secure a hay deal each year too. Most rural grandpa's here just keep a bunch of hens or rabbits. Hens in particular are nice because they lay eggs and you can feed them vegetable leftovers. Problem is eagles and foxes think hens are also nice to have as lunch.

If you have any specifig issue you need advice with, just ask... I am not great at giving generic advice :-)


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Re: Farming Tips
By: Arelor to Dumas Walker on Sun Jan 24 2021 05:54 pm

Re: Farming Tips
By: Dumas Walker to TORTILLARETREAT on Sun Jan 24 2021 09:44 am

Hello, people. Does anyone here with experience in agriculture or >>livestock

giv

me some beginner tips? At this point in the world, I'm considering
just living
a rural farming life.

There is a fellow on here who goes by the handle of Arelor. He keeps
livestock, but also lives in Spain.

* SLMR 2.1a * Wind in my hair - shifting and drifting...

Yeah, but I don't make a living out of it either.

If you plan to make business with this sort of thing you need 40-50 cows minimum. I don't know how much surface you need if you want to get into corn, because the prices keep getting lower each year and I have lost count.

well i've worked with a few guys over the years that have a job as a cnc machinist AND run a farm. the first person i met was a real hard worker. he would get right out of work and then be in bed after 12am. there's another guy my current job who has a small farm. dont know much about that.

all i know is it's hard work and you have to have your shit together or it's going to cost you. and with the changes in the usa that biden has made ALREADY, farmers are complaining.
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** On Sunday 24.01.21 - 17:54, Arelor wrote to Dumas Walker:

If you plan to make business with this sort of thing you
need 40-50 cows minimum. ...

I don't keep livestock for comsumption or anything. If you
keep big numbers of big animals you are up to a logistic
nightmare because you have to secure pasture deals each year
and supplement that with bales of hay.

There is a fellow up the road from me, who would just raise
modestly young calves starting in the Spring and then just sell
them on the market before Winter. That way, he didn't have to
endure the hardship of the cold months and extra hay. I thought
that was pretty smart. He seemed to do quite alright by
himself.

My family slugged through raising livestock all through the
Winter. The work was constant, and very demanding.

Hens in particular are nice because they lay eggs and you
can feed them vegetable leftovers. Problem is eagles and
foxes think hens are also nice to have as lunch.

Chickens and hens need a good enclosure for the night. During
the daytime, a dog on the premises could detract the eagles and
foxes.

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