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Hope this is the best place to post. Opinion on these heifers, Thanks

With this widespread drought how does it affect BLM leases? Are they ended for an indefinite period of time? What do you do when and if your lease is ended.? It was very dry in Minnesota last year and I and others sold many head,

I have posted concerning this last year. What has the widespread drought done to your BLM leases? How soon after a drought will BLM leases return to normal? Looking at maps I see how widespread the drought is. What do you do with livestock under such conditions? Is hay available? Thanks, as we...

Just stopped in local coop. Fertilizer and chemical prices more than doubled since spring. Seed up some. Some seed scarce.

I live in central Minnesota in an extreme drought area. I am also going 0n 74 years of age. Anyway I have a herd of 40 registered Hereford cows and two registered bulls. I am going to have to have to sell the cattle in a few weeks. The calves have been weaned, cows vaccinated, poured and over...

I am in central Minnesota and very dry. Sale barns are overwhelmed with cattle coming in. Pairs are coming in large numbers. I myself will have to make tough decisions unless it rains soon. I will be 73 in a few weeks so not as tough for me as younger guys. Land will stay in family but kids all...

Yesterday morning had a new calf. It did not look quite right. Laying kinda funny but alert so I tagged it. Went on to another new calf but thought maybe I should try to get wimpy calf up. So I went back and tried to get it on it's feet. All four legs were down an almost vertical hole, probably...

I went into the bank today to get some cash. This is a small town and everyone knows everybody. The cashier said " you farm" go see the manager. I went to his office and he mentioned some program where using 2019 taxes, form F, you get a govt loan and then they forgive it. I said I don't want a...

Darn you live way out in Oregon, I was hoping you could get us a new TV, I'll get one in Minneapolis

We had some Amish kids over yesterday to help cut strings for bale grazing. We make it a party with grandkids etc. Anyway the Amish family quit dairy farming but kept one jersey cow, The kids said the cow would nurse other cows which I have heard of. Now they said unless she is in a stantion she...

Question: Here in Minnesota it can get down to -40F. How do they work at that temp? As a rule of thumb chemically speaking reactions slow down 50% for each 18 degrees fahrinheit, if I remember correctly. I am curious is there a chart relating temperature to range etc.?

I do not usually do much talking on my own feelings but stick to facts. This morning I heard a speaker say we are closing in on 200,000 covid deaths. but what does that mean? It would mean one Covid death for each 1650 Americans. Now also remember that some states do not require a Covid test...

I know we have producers from across the nation here. Curious if we are seeing a reduction in cow numbers due to drought. In my area of Minnesota we had very dry conditions early but that has changed. Also wondering if producers relocate cows for awhile or not. thanks farmguy

She has no idea who it was. It happened in Brainerd Minnesota and we live 50 miles away. She just moved on.

My wife was in Home Depot yesterday and she carried a mask but not wearing it. An elderly man struck her with his cane, cursed her in very nasty language and said he hoped she would die. My wife is 71. So on it goes, farmguy.

One of our daughters works in billing at a large hospital. She reported this and I checked. You do too. Medicare is paying a 20% add-on to its regular hospital payments for the treatment of COVID-19 victims. That’s a result of a federal stimulus law. Patients with multible issues and iffy...

Spanish flu 1918 50 million dead 5.26% of worlds population (950 million) Tragic Seasonal flu 2018 650,000 dead .009% world population ( 7.5 billion) typical year Covid 19 2020 488,729 dead & counting .006% world population (7.7 billion) End of the world

I don't know where to post this but this is most active forum so here goes. I have an old Arkfeld livestock scale, 1600 lbs. I would like to convert to digital with load bars. Anyone ever done anything like this or have info, site etc. that may help me. I use it to weigh calves at weaning as...

PS two family groups hunt behind our lands that give access to the opposite of the river. For a few years Family A and Family B both would cross on our land on foot or by vehicle if possible. Then families A and B got to feuding and we were constantly visited by both families condemning each...

I'm bored so I will rant. We live by a small river with many bends etc. Years ago every acre was farmed or pastured. But now those little fields by the river are abandoned and very few pasture cattle. By us some land is wilder than it's been in over 100 years. We have many deer, pheasants and...