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I've never been to a county fair
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My favorite thing at country fairs was going up into the new tractors and pretending to drive them

i'm an animal person, not a machine person.
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I've never been to a county fair
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I don't even know if Shawnee County even has a fair? Tom?
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I don't even know if Shawnee County even has a fair? Tom?

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Re: cow farming linguistics poll
« Reply #2480 on: April 04, 2020, 07:24:02 PM »
BTY(ByTheWay)

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eff, I didn't even notice.  BTW it is, but I was typing the last letter of way for some reason.   :facepalm:
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Re: cow farming linguistics poll
« Reply #2481 on: April 04, 2020, 07:44:27 PM »
The fermentation and storage process is called ensilage, ensiling or silaging, and is usually made from grass crops, including maize, sorghum or other cereals, using the entire green plant.

Apparently, silage is the cut feed before it's processed.  Also, both words are derived from the French language.
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I have never ridden on or driven an open cab tractor. The idea of doing that hungover breathing in alfalfa dust in what I assume was 100 degree temps is terrifying.


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Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« Reply #2483 on: April 04, 2020, 08:43:39 PM »
No, I’ve mown probably 500 miles of ditches and always in air conditioned comfort. I think you people may be confusing living “out in the country” with real life cow farm life.


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Re: cow farming linguistics poll
« Reply #2484 on: April 04, 2020, 08:57:05 PM »
Silage chopper



Used to milk 150 cows and put up a shitload of corn silage every year, custom cutters from Moundridge would come in and knock it out in a few days.  I shuttled silage wagons as a kid when my dad and uncle milked/farmed in partnership.  Had a three row Gehl chopper and took two weeks with good weather.  Pulled with an IH 504 gas tractor up the hills and wagons pushed going down hill.

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I have never ridden on or driven an open cab tractor. The idea of doing that hungover breathing in alfalfa dust in what I assume was 100 degree temps is terrifying.


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I don't even know if Shawnee County even has a fair? Tom?
Always went to Douglas Co Fair in Lawrence, KS.  The only thing I ever did at Shawnee Expo Center was Boy Scout stuff.


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Meade Co. has a fair


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I went to the Thomas Count fair one time, never went to the JoCo fair.

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Re: cow farming linguistics poll
« Reply #2489 on: April 04, 2020, 09:57:30 PM »
Silage chopper



Used to milk 150 cows and put up a shitload of corn silage every year, custom cutters from Moundridge would come in and knock it out in a few days.  I shuttled silage wagons as a kid when my dad and uncle milked/farmed in partnership.  Had a three row Gehl chopper and took two weeks with good weather.  Pulled with an IH 504 gas tractor up the hills and wagons pushed going down hill.

Your family still in the milk game? Heard its not good for milk farmers out there.

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Re: cow farming linguistics poll
« Reply #2490 on: April 04, 2020, 10:53:16 PM »
Milk farming is widely regarded as the worst farming unless you hate days off

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Re: cow farming linguistics poll
« Reply #2491 on: April 05, 2020, 12:56:46 AM »
Silage chopper



Used to milk 150 cows and put up a shitload of corn silage every year, custom cutters from Moundridge would come in and knock it out in a few days.  I shuttled silage wagons as a kid when my dad and uncle milked/farmed in partnership.  Had a three row Gehl chopper and took two weeks with good weather.  Pulled with an IH 504 gas tractor up the hills and wagons pushed going down hill.

I own an IH 504.  :cheers:
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Re: cow farming linguistics poll
« Reply #2492 on: April 05, 2020, 06:45:29 AM »
Milk farming is widely regarded as the worst farming unless you hate days off
all farming should be regarded as the worst farming for this reason. Maybe straight up non-animal having seasonal crop hobby farming would be good I guess.


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Re: cow farming linguistics poll
« Reply #2493 on: April 05, 2020, 10:56:58 AM »
Milk farming is widely regarded as the worst farming unless you hate days off
all farming should be regarded as the worst farming for this reason. Maybe straight up non-animal having seasonal crop hobby farming would be good I guess.


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Re: cow farming linguistics poll
« Reply #2494 on: April 05, 2020, 11:04:58 AM »
also like with regular cow farming you can just leave them in a pasture with a pond for a day or two, you don't need to milk them and shovel their crap at 5am every day 24/7/365

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Re: cow farming linguistics poll
« Reply #2495 on: April 05, 2020, 11:06:48 AM »
and sometimes the hardest part of regular cow farming is counting them from the pickup. oh are there 78 in that pasture? OK good let's go.

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Re: cow farming linguistics poll
« Reply #2496 on: April 05, 2020, 11:42:30 AM »
and sometimes the hardest part of regular cow farming is counting them from the pickup. oh are there 78 in that pasture? OK good let's go.

Rusty, that was one of my many jobs; cattle count and check stock tanks for water.  It's amazing how Kansas farm boys did familiar work and various things on the farm.   :Carl:
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Re: cow farming linguistics poll
« Reply #2497 on: April 05, 2020, 12:25:42 PM »
Do they just have chips with GPS now for these cows?  I bet these guys are using infrared drones and crap to take cattle inventory now.
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SD, is this how you hauled your rd. bales?   :ROFL:
https://youtu.be/q4tK1nic0eA
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Attention city folks here is a good vid. of typical small farm of yesteryear.  This is good info. on farm life that is much more condensed then reading this thread from the beginning.

https://youtu.be/YWzNzHErGMg
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