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what does FFA stand for and also what is it?

Future farmers of america
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i would not cuddle that thing. it would only take ~5 seconds before you were lying in a puddle of its poo.

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My entire senior class drove tractors to school on the last day.  We were pretty Farmeo at our podunk school though and it took up the entire lot so that was fun for the rest of the kids.

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what does FFA stand for and also what is it?

Future farmers of america
and it's for a majority of kids who will never farm.


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It's apparently monsoon season

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It's apparently monsoon season

You're in Iowa?

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If a cow farmer has just a ton of cows on his farm, so many that you can't keep track in your head and there's tons being born and dying all the time, how does he figure out exactly how many he has?

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If a cow farmer has just a ton of cows on his farm, so many that you can't keep track in your head and there's tons being born and dying all the time, how does he figure out exactly how many he has?

rough estimate. we usually have a cowboy driving around through the cows that are going to have baby cows soon and if they see a baby cow that can't really run away yet they will put a tag on its ear with the same number on it as its mom and then record it in a book. sometimes they don't get them in time and they are too big to catch so you just put in the book that #1756 has a black baby cow with a white face or something similar. sometimes you will find them and you can't tell who the baby belongs to because its in like a big group of cows. sometimes you just don't ever see them anyway because they are in like a huge area with streams and trees and hills and stuff so you just don't see them. at some point during the year you hire a shitload of cowboys to come and get all of the cows and baby cows into one area and then you separate the babies from the moms and give them vaccinations and stuff. they count them all then again and get the ones they missed. then you let the moms back out and move the babys to another place where they live by themselves. then you put the bull cows back in with the mom cows and (finger through hole made by fingers of other hand< LOL) and start the whole cycle again. some of the girl baby cows are eventually put back with the moms and every once in a while one of the boys is put in with the bulls because someone who knows about cows thinks he will be a good bull. the rest of the babies are fattened up and sold.

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sys, sddad just bought some more ropinfeet bulls. an interesting thing I learned over memorial day is that if a ropinfeet bull dies from anything the first year they will give you another bull. that's like a special warranty that's exclusive to ropinfeet bulls apparently.

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If a cow farmer has just a ton of cows on his farm, so many that you can't keep track in your head and there's tons being born and dying all the time, how does he figure out exactly how many he has?

rough estimate. we usually have a cowboy driving around through the cows that are going to have baby cows soon and if they see a baby cow that can't really run away yet they will put a tag on its ear with the same number on it as its mom and then record it in a book. sometimes they don't get them in time and they are too big to catch so you just put in the book that #1756 has a black baby cow with a white face or something similar. sometimes you will find them and you can't tell who the baby belongs to because its in like a big group of cows. sometimes you just don't ever see them anyway because they are in like a huge area with streams and trees and hills and stuff so you just don't see them. at some point during the year you hire a shitload of cowboys to come and get all of the cows and baby cows into one area and then you separate the babies from the moms and give them vaccinations and stuff. they count them all then again and get the ones they missed. then you let the moms back out and move the babys to another place where they live by themselves. then you put the bull cows back in with the mom cows and (finger through hole made by fingers of other hand< LOL) and start the whole cycle again. some of the girl baby cows are eventually put back with the moms and every once in a while one of the boys is put in with the bulls because someone who knows about cows thinks he will be a good bull. the rest of the babies are fattened up and sold.

Wow, that sounds awfully complicated.  Why not just use a cowculator? :Keke:

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oh man.
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what's upcow?

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sys, sddad just bought some more ropinfeet bulls. an interesting thing I learned over memorial day is that if a ropinfeet bull dies from anything the first year they will give you another bull. that's like a special warranty that's exclusive to ropinfeet bulls apparently.

that's a pretty good deal.  if i were you, i'd try to get your father to call up ohlde's people and see if they'll offer the same guarantee on ohlde bulls.
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sd, has your father ever thought about creating his own breed of cow?  make his mark on the world, so to speak.
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the real question I have is that a cowculated risk sddad would be willing to take?

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I'm not 100% certain that sd knows exactly what goes on at his dad's ranch. I also not 100% certain that sd dad is not Ted Turner.


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sd, has your father ever thought about creating his own breed of cow?  make his mark on the world, so to speak.

Not that I know of.

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Anybody else having trouble getting their soybeans planted with all this rain?


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Anybody else having trouble getting their soybeans planted with all this rain?
Not with this bad boy

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does your dad have any of these?
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A vintage looking t-shirt that says:

Farmer Tans
Rough Hands
Dirty Boots
Country Roots

Would you wear one?

What about if the sleeves were cut off?
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i want one of those cow scratchers.
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There's got to be some hilarious cow buffer thingy video out there. I want to see it.