ben farming long (@benjaminaustic) / X

ben farming long

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ben farming long

@benjaminaustic

Christian living and agriculture. World’s worst Christian and @benzsweetpea’s consolation prize. Sometimes in MO, sometimes in NY.

USA

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Joined September 2015

ben farming long
@benjaminaustic
Nov 23, 2023
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
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ben farming long
@benjaminaustic
Oct 21, 2021
My hometown is prettier than your hometown.
ben farming long
@benjaminaustic
Dec 24, 2023
Replying to @WallStreetApes
That’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.
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ben farming long
@benjaminaustic
Oct 22, 2025
I’m about to go join a No Kings rally
Garrett Toay
@agtradertalk
Oct 22, 2025
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ben farming long
@benjaminaustic
Oct 9, 2022
Someday ima pull into a KOA like this
ben farming long
@benjaminaustic
Feb 11, 2023
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
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ben farming long
@benjaminaustic
Jul 14, 2024
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/
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ben farming long
@benjaminaustic
Apr 24, 2025
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?
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ben farming long
@benjaminaustic
Sep 12, 2025
You gotta plant the wheat in order to be able to lose money on it.
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ben farming long
@benjaminaustic
Dec 6, 2023
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
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ben farming long
@benjaminaustic
Nov 7, 2024
Replying to @PicturesFoIder
He is the sort of employee I would love to have. Saw what needed to be done and jumped in to do it.
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ben farming long
@benjaminaustic
Sep 26, 2023
#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)
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ben farming long
@benjaminaustic
Jun 24, 2024
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.
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ben farming long
@benjaminaustic
Oct 17, 2025
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
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