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snopro
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Watch out for flare ups.
jhurkot
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Only 45 super b loads to get a new green combine (without a header)
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Today I learned what canola is really used for…
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Hay prices have been really high the last 5 yrs last year I sold all my hay for 175$ bale no rain on it 1320lb bales but yield was way down no moisture til Aug 5 then it rained 8 inches if we could get that rain cloud moved back to may yields would double and prices would half so I guess it’s all relative I remember sell big round bales at 30$$ not too long ago
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Where are you that you can sell hay for $175??? We were selling for $95.
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Well look at that
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Neighbor does my hay and we crop share. Usually get 45 bales off my little piece. Last year 16
Seen ads for $300 around here
Seen ads for $300 around here
turboetech
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Drayton Valley area I sold all my last season hay for 140$ and the new season at 175$ I usually sell 600 to 800 bales a year good hay sells quick usually on the market before the end of July but one year I assume prices will drop
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We sold all ours for 110-100 per bale most be have ever sold for was 125
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We sold some bales from last year for 60 a bale. That's after we hauled them from the field to the yard yet. If we could sell for $175 i'd be tempted to put poorer land back to grass. Dang gophers are so bad here though my back can't handle the abuse of gopher infested ground.
turboetech
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Thats one thing about the clay/gumbo soil here no gophers but we have had grasshoppers really bad the last 3 yrs
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A farmer writes, “Now each morning when I awake, I pray and then ask myself, “what have I done?”
I am involved with the BlueSky/Greenfield wind turbine project in N.E. Fond du Lac County. I am also a successful farmer who cherishes his land. My father taught me how to farm, to be a steward of my fields, and by doing so, produce far better crop production. As I view this years crops, my eyes feast on a most bountiful supply of corn and soybeans. And then my eyes focus again on the trenches and road scars leading to the turbine foundations.
What have I done?
In 2003, the wind energy company made their first contacts with us. A $2000 “incentive” started the process of winning us over, a few of us at a time. The city salesman would throw out their nets, like fishermen trawling for fish. Their incentive “gift” lured some of us in at first. Then the salesmen would leave and let us talk with other farmers. When the corporate salesman returned, there would be more us ready to sign up, farmers had heard about the money to be made. Perhaps because we were successful farmers, we were the leaders and their best salesman.
What have I done?
Sometime in 2004 or 2005, we signed $4000 turbine contracts allowing them to “lease” our land for their needs. Our leases favored the company, but what did we know back then? Nobody knew what we were doing. Nobody realized all the changes that would occur which we would have no control. How often my friends and I have made that statement!
What have I done?
I watched stakes being driven in the fields and men using GPS monitors to place markers here and there. When the cats and graders started tearing 22-foot-wide roads into my fields, the physical changes started to impact not only me and my family but unfortunately, my dear friends and neighbors. Later, a 4 foot by 2-foot-wide trench started diagonally across my field. A field already divided by their road was now being divided again by the cables running to a substation. It was now making one large field into 4 smaller, irregularly shaped plots. Other turbine hosts also complained about their fields being subdivided or multi cable trenches requiring more land. Roads were cut in using anywhere from 1000 feet to over ½ mile of land to connect necessary locations. We soon realized that the company places roads and trenches where they would benefit the company most, not the land owner. One neighbors access road is right next to some of his out buildings. Another right next to his fence line.
What have I done?
At a wind company dinner presented for the farmers hosting the turbines, we were repeatedly told—nicely and indirectly – to stay away from the company work sites once they start. I watch as my friends faces showed the same concern as I had, but none of us spoke out. Months later, when I approached a crew putting in lines where they promised me they would defiantly not go, a representative told me I could not be here. He insisted that I leave. The line went in. The company had the right. I had signed the lease.
What have I done?
Grumbling started almost immediately after we agreed to a 2% yearly increase on our 30 year lease contracts. Some felt we should have held out for 10. What farmer would lock in the price of corn over the next 5 years, yet alone lock one in at 2% yearly for 30 years? Then rumors leaked that other farmers received higher yearly rates, so now contracts varied. The fast talking city folk had successfully delivered their plan. Without regard for our land, we were allowing them to come in and spoil it. All of the rocks we labor so hard to pick in our youth were replaced in a few hours by miles of roads packed hard with 10 inches of large breaker rock. Costly tiling, we installed to improve drainage has now been cut to pieces by company trenching machines. What have I done?
Each night a security team rides down our roads checking the foundation sites. They are checking for vandals and thieves. Once, when I had ventured with guests to show them foundation work, security stopped us and aske me, standing on my own property, what I was doing there.
What have I done?
Now, at social functions, we can clearly see the huge division this has created among community members. Suddenly, there are strong-sided discussions and heated words between friends and yes, between relatives about wind turbines. Perhaps this is a greater consequence that the hard caused to my land! Life is short and my friendships precious.
What have I done?
I tried, as did some of the other farmers, to get out of our contracts but we had signed a binding contract and a contract is a contract. If you are considering placing wind turbines on your property, I strongly recommend that you please reconsider. Study the issues. Think of all the harm versus the benefits to your land and, in the future, to your children’s land by allowing companies to lease your land for turbines.
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
PLEASE DO NOT DO WHAT I HAVE DONE!
I am involved with the BlueSky/Greenfield wind turbine project in N.E. Fond du Lac County. I am also a successful farmer who cherishes his land. My father taught me how to farm, to be a steward of my fields, and by doing so, produce far better crop production. As I view this years crops, my eyes feast on a most bountiful supply of corn and soybeans. And then my eyes focus again on the trenches and road scars leading to the turbine foundations.
What have I done?
In 2003, the wind energy company made their first contacts with us. A $2000 “incentive” started the process of winning us over, a few of us at a time. The city salesman would throw out their nets, like fishermen trawling for fish. Their incentive “gift” lured some of us in at first. Then the salesmen would leave and let us talk with other farmers. When the corporate salesman returned, there would be more us ready to sign up, farmers had heard about the money to be made. Perhaps because we were successful farmers, we were the leaders and their best salesman.
What have I done?
Sometime in 2004 or 2005, we signed $4000 turbine contracts allowing them to “lease” our land for their needs. Our leases favored the company, but what did we know back then? Nobody knew what we were doing. Nobody realized all the changes that would occur which we would have no control. How often my friends and I have made that statement!
What have I done?
I watched stakes being driven in the fields and men using GPS monitors to place markers here and there. When the cats and graders started tearing 22-foot-wide roads into my fields, the physical changes started to impact not only me and my family but unfortunately, my dear friends and neighbors. Later, a 4 foot by 2-foot-wide trench started diagonally across my field. A field already divided by their road was now being divided again by the cables running to a substation. It was now making one large field into 4 smaller, irregularly shaped plots. Other turbine hosts also complained about their fields being subdivided or multi cable trenches requiring more land. Roads were cut in using anywhere from 1000 feet to over ½ mile of land to connect necessary locations. We soon realized that the company places roads and trenches where they would benefit the company most, not the land owner. One neighbors access road is right next to some of his out buildings. Another right next to his fence line.
What have I done?
At a wind company dinner presented for the farmers hosting the turbines, we were repeatedly told—nicely and indirectly – to stay away from the company work sites once they start. I watch as my friends faces showed the same concern as I had, but none of us spoke out. Months later, when I approached a crew putting in lines where they promised me they would defiantly not go, a representative told me I could not be here. He insisted that I leave. The line went in. The company had the right. I had signed the lease.
What have I done?
Grumbling started almost immediately after we agreed to a 2% yearly increase on our 30 year lease contracts. Some felt we should have held out for 10. What farmer would lock in the price of corn over the next 5 years, yet alone lock one in at 2% yearly for 30 years? Then rumors leaked that other farmers received higher yearly rates, so now contracts varied. The fast talking city folk had successfully delivered their plan. Without regard for our land, we were allowing them to come in and spoil it. All of the rocks we labor so hard to pick in our youth were replaced in a few hours by miles of roads packed hard with 10 inches of large breaker rock. Costly tiling, we installed to improve drainage has now been cut to pieces by company trenching machines. What have I done?
Each night a security team rides down our roads checking the foundation sites. They are checking for vandals and thieves. Once, when I had ventured with guests to show them foundation work, security stopped us and aske me, standing on my own property, what I was doing there.
What have I done?
Now, at social functions, we can clearly see the huge division this has created among community members. Suddenly, there are strong-sided discussions and heated words between friends and yes, between relatives about wind turbines. Perhaps this is a greater consequence that the hard caused to my land! Life is short and my friendships precious.
What have I done?
I tried, as did some of the other farmers, to get out of our contracts but we had signed a binding contract and a contract is a contract. If you are considering placing wind turbines on your property, I strongly recommend that you please reconsider. Study the issues. Think of all the harm versus the benefits to your land and, in the future, to your children’s land by allowing companies to lease your land for turbines.
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
PLEASE DO NOT DO WHAT I HAVE DONE!
Man if those gophers are taunting you in big numbers, you give me a buzz and I'll bring my posse to put a hurt on them.
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We have a few different fields that could use some adjusting. I'm south east of regina 30 minutes. I feel most of the damage is already done with their mounds.
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Guys around here used to use an old Noble blade and build little dozer blades on them and drive around and flatten the mounds. Gotta kill the gophers first or they will all reappear in less than a day
Yeah man, that's well within our range. Just send me a PM when conditions look good to get around in the fields.
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Try find a bigger old blade like that these days without spending a ton of money though. I only have a single noble blade, was thinking about selling it though, did not do what I had hoped. Our ground is too hard to even penetrate. Scared to tilt the blade down for fear of breaking it off. Then I just got a ripper.
hopefully you have a call for coyotes too, I’m tired of getting woken up at 12-3am every other night by a coyote 75 feet from my window, like last night. Dog going crazy, see a coyote 50 feet from the house, in a slumber trying to get the gun, then find a magazine, then find bullets.. Our firearms laws being stored in separate locations is so helpful when you’re in a rush. By the time I got my gun and out the door they’re long gone. My German shepherd is more like an alarm than a guard dog. Love her to death but boy is she useless sometimes lol. Ever meet a German shepherd who was so friendly she’d welcome a murderer or burglar onto the farm, and then try and get into the vehicle with them to leave after murdering me? That’s my dog, she’s hefty, she’s thick, she’s not missing any meals that one.
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