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[Sandstone Outcropping]

Combine fire in Osage County this evening.  Guy jumped off and broke his leg to add insult to injury.


Tom

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That sucks. Is it just me, or are there more combine fires these days? Is soybean dust more flammable than other dusts? Saw a large red machine that had burned along K-9 near Concordia a few weeks ago. Really bad day for someone.

[steve dave]

farmers love insurance fraud fyi

NOT MAKING A STATEMENT ON THIS SPECIFIC FIRE BTW

[slackcat]

farmers love insurance fraud fyi

NOT MAKING A STATEMENT ON THIS SPECIFIC FIRE BTW

better back that up big guy 

[Dugout DickStone]

farmers love insurance fraud fyi

NOT MAKING A STATEMENT ON THIS SPECIFIC FIRE BTW

better back that up big guy 

If you love government handouts you also love insuance fraud.  It is axiomatic

[slackcat]

This is something we in the "business" don't talk about.

[KST8FAN]

Doing a week at the farm... Tater riding the Gator
Turnips grown as a cover crop
Beaver dam on the creek
Tires we hauled off our place to create a wind break in cow lot
Tillie messing with Tater in the feed bunk


Tom

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[wetwillie]

Tater is quickly becoming the star of this thread

[yoga-like_abana]

Honestly we should rename this thread to the Tom thread


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[sys]

man, great looking turnips.  turnips are such a great fruit, shame they're overshadowed by the potato.

[steve dave]

Hell yeah Tom

[Institutional Control]

LTIQ question: Are beets and turnips the same thing?

[yoga-like_abana]

LTIQ question: Are beets and turnips the same thing?

Negative. Bears don’t eat turnips


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[steve dave]

LTIQ question: Are beets and turnips the same thing?

No, but also yes basically

[Stupid Fitz]

Doing a week at the farm... Tater riding the Gator
Turnips grown as a cover crop
Beaver dam on the creek
Tires we hauled off our place to create a wind break in cow lot
Tillie messing with Tater in the feed bunk


Tom

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This is the farmiest post in the history of farm posts. I love it.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Amazing beaver dam. Beavers are just incredible. How are they just born with the software for building dams???

[Dugout DickStone]

Amazing beaver dam. Beavers are just incredible. How are they just born with the software for building dams???

not all of them:

https://www.theonion.com/beaver-overthinking-dam-1819568416

[Rage Against the McKee]

LTIQ question: Are beets and turnips the same thing?

No, but also yes basically

Beets are much better.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Amazing beaver dam. Beavers are just incredible. How are they just born with the software for building dams???

not all of them:

https://www.theonion.com/beaver-overthinking-dam-1819568416

[KST8FAN]

Amazing beaver dam. Beavers are just incredible. How are they just born with the software for building dams???

Looked at it closer today.  Found their Lodge further upstream. Half on the bank, half on the creek.  The dam is a woven thicket of limbs, corn stalks, trees.  As the water rose they used growing trees on the bank as piers and packed stuff behind them to extend and support it.

Beaver have been on this creek going back to my youth...


Tom

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[ben ji]

Some farm pics from when I was out there hunting last weekend.

[ben ji]

Milo after a hard day of hunting

[ben ji]

I convinced my dad to stop mowing alot of the area around the farm to make it better pheasant hunting habitat and it worked. Straight ahead is the old chicken coop and to the right/behind it is overgrown with weeds that I flushed a couple pheasants from.

Also the cattle pens are all overgrown with weeds since there were no cows this year and I found some pheasant in there. Selfishly I don't want him to lease out the remaining pasture so that it stays primo pheasant hunting area for me.

[ben ji]

Milo after a hard day of hunting

You can tell there is some recently broken out land there. Used to be about a 5 acre triangle of grass at the edge of the irrigated circle that my uncle would stack hay bales on. This year it was overgrown with weeds and I was super excited to hunt it but when I got out there it had just been broken out .

I asked my dad about it and the guy who farms our land had his equipment out there already so he figured he might as well do it now.

[ben ji]

Bumped a metric ton of deer from weedy areas and the windbreak. Milo didn't chase this one because I was there to tell here to leave it alone.

A different time we were hunting a newish windbreak (tree's as tall as me) and I bumped a deer. Milo was on the other side of the trees and didn't hear me tell her to leave it and ended up chasing it for about 1/4 mile before giving up and trotting back with a stupid smile on her face.

[ben ji]

Doing a week at the farm... Tater riding the Gator
Turnips grown as a cover crop
Beaver dam on the creek
Tires we hauled off our place to create a wind break in cow lot
Tillie messing with Tater in the feed bunk


Tom

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Tell me more about the turnips as cover crops. Did you plant them after the wheat harvest or corn harvest? I would guess wheat but I have no idea how long it takes turnips to grow.

Do you feed the turnips to the cows?