The farm where I live will soon be bordered on 3 sides by solar panels.
In a few short months or maybe years, all the solar workers will be gone. But we will live with their wreckage for decades, and our children will be left with the cleanup. Shame on all participating in this
ben farming long
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Christian living and agriculture. World’s worst Christian and @benzsweetpea’s consolation prize. Sometimes in MO, sometimes in NY.
- Replying to @WallStreetApesThat’s an air tractor, and that’s a few prills of urea (a nitrogen fertilizer). My guess he’s spreading it on a neighboring farm field. It won’t harm anything, might make the garden a tiny bit greener.
- I’m about to go join a No Kings rally
- Today I heard Garth sing about his worn out tape of Chris Ledoux and I realized: Half the people alive today don’t know what a tape is, nor who Chris Ledoux is. And now I feel super old
- He plowed with six bottoms behind an 856. She plowed with 5 behind an 806. They drove past our shop on the way to the field, him in front and her close behind. They raised corn, grandkids, and quarter horses, and excelled at them all. 1/
- Me: *hits autosteer resume halfway through my turn* Deere: I got you boo Raven: which way even is forward? Also Raven: let’s draw an S wouldn’t that be fun?
- You gotta plant the wheat in order to be able to lose money on it.
- Nine hundred thousand bushels of corn and a hundred fifty thousand bushels of soybeans later 20 of the most awesome people you’ve ever met have finished harvesting the little patch of land that God entrusts to us Memorialized with a Snapchat
- Replying to @PicturesFoIderHe is the sort of employee I would love to have. Saw what needed to be done and jumped in to do it.
- #agtwitter friends- who has old aerials of their farm? Let’s see them. This is where I grew up. Southern Seneca county NY, around 1984. (That’s an 83 Olds with the 5.7 diesel in the driveway)
- An offer from a solar company to buy/lease every. single. parcel we own. Each tax map in its own envelope. There’s a highly paid person doing some serious homework.
- Just for fun I priced a new JD 8R410. $610k with warranty. Then, again for fun, I priced a new hold over AGCO Massey 8737. $364k with warranty. Yes, it’s a series older and a little smaller… but will do the same job. @JohnDeere you need to wake up. These prices are











