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Captain Stud isn’t far off the mark…my family had dairy farmers in Minnesota where I spent some summers with my brother many years ago and life was pretty much like this….
Wake up around – oclock and eat a huge meal.
Milk the cows and feed/water them…..lots of manual labor getting the feed and milking. Clean milking equipment. Let the cows out to feed or graze.
Perform maintenance on any field equipment if necessary.
Get out into the fields and perform any tasks necessary….tilling, planting, harvesting, repairing fences, etc…
Eat lunch at home or in the field….the size of the meal is dictated by the amount of work done or left to do.
Work some more in the fields.
Prepare to milk cows again and clean equipment. Squirt the cats with fresh milk if you feel like it. Bring in hay or grain for the next feeding.
Finish up any field work till dusk or later.
Eat a huge dinner somewhere in between or after.
Go over any financial or business related tasks, calculate expenses and costs versus projected? profit…if any, check weather reports for next day or week and feed or crop prices, etc….
Watch a little Hee Haw or Lawrence Welk or play the piano/accordian… (I lived with my grandparents, OK) Read a little Bible and pray…thank God for all He has given you. Get to bed by oclock or so…the earlier the better to save money by not having to light the house. Pennies add up you know.
Next day… repeat…. except for Sunday….go to church after milking and chores.. continue this process for years with a vacation every years maybe? if you can find someone to milk the cows for you. No other vacations are allowed although you can get away to town periodically for shopping or visiting. Planting gardens is optional and you can hunt anywhere on your land for extra game/meat or just to shoot those pesky “barn ducks”.
And you must have good knowledge of animal husbandry, veteranarian practices, carpentry, mechanics, accounting, crop prices and cattle prices, herd management, etc…
All in all, a full life but there’s time to enjoy moments along the way. I wouldn’t trade my experience on farms for anything.
It’s a great life, as long as you’re not stuck in the mindset that you have to do things like everybody else is doing them. If you “follow the herd” you’ll end up working yourself to death for pennies.
The key to profitable farming is bringing back some “old ways” — the big one being direct, local marketing.
Produce a quality product, sell that product direct to the public, and don’t try to compete with the big discount chains. By getting out from under the ‘middlemen’ and marketing to people who appreciate and are willing to pay for the quality, farming can not only be profitable, it’s very enjoyable.
I raise MIniature dairy cattle. I don’t like to milk a lot of cows, so I usually milk one and the rest of my cows raise foster calves. Those foster calves are sold by the quarter & half to folks eager to pay a premium for mostly grassfed beef that never saw a feedlot and didn’t receive hormone implants.
The Miniature calves are sold mainly through the Internet and sell for more than twice as much as registered standard calves and many times more than a ‘grade’ calf , and they eat less than half as much. Plus the mama cows can easily feed several standard calves per lactation, again on less feed than standard sized cows.
I have a waiting list for both Miniature calves and for finished beef, but will only raise/keep just so many animals, I don’t want to be so big that it’s no longer fun.
The same goes with chickens& eggs, don’t bother with the folks that are looking for a “deal” let them go to the discount chain store — you want the folks that want eggs from free-range chickens, and home-raised poultry, and are willing to pay a premium for it.
Go to your local health food store or “real food” store and look at the prices they are commanding for grassfed beef, free-range eggs, and pastured poultry — no reason that the farmer shouldn’t be getting comparable prices for comparable products.
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Well for me it is just like everybody else’s. I am in FFA (Future Farmers of America) and my family and I raise dairy goats, cattle, and pigs and they are all for showing. We get money if we place at all in the shows and so we have money to keep all of it going. It is a GREAT life. Of course I grew up doing all of this so it is what I know and what I am really good at. We have to get up really early so we can take care of all of the animals before we go to school. Then it takes lots of time to train them to show and set up right. Then at shows we have to be there at about or in the morning so we can bathe and fix their hair just right. And if you haven’t heard of FFA then this may not mean anything to you…. 🙂 …..Taking care of all of the animals is a lot of work. But it is all worth it when the baby animals are born and when you win at Livestock Shows…….Farming of any kind teaches responsibility and so it helps you in many ways. I hope I could answer your question.
How about working all year long but only getting one or two paychecks a year? How about working hard, spending money for inputs and doing everything right but then a drought, flood or hailstorm destroys everything, leaving you with nothing but the bills for planting the crop? How about producing a product that you don’t set the price for, but take whatever others will give you for it. And tomorrow you can’t count on getting the same price you did today. It may be more and then again it may be less.
long hair makes you look more nicer and adorable and short hair you look just like a little girl.
well let see.
up before sun rise like – am
feed the herds, milk the cow
tend the field
shopping for feeds and equipments
fixing things
end of day
dinner
paper work
sleep
In a word, freedom. My farm is my kingdom my animals my people and all that I do is for them. I watch over them like children care for them when they are sick pet them when they are lonely. They provide for me as I do them it is a cycle of unmatched beauty. Anything you see you can make better anything you have you can use. The soil is your canvas the trees your clay to shape. Every failure is yours every triumph a testament to your skill as a keeper of the earth. I could go on forever it is my passion my one true joy.
depends on what kind of farming they do.. some have regular jobs in additon to the farm because the farm is not making enough money..
farmer get hardly anything – the stores get rich!
read this link on my morning routine (hobby farm) but you get the idea.
http://gomestic.com/rural-living/my-morning-routin…
working in the sun all day long. in the havest time is even longer hours to get the crops out before the snow comes.
I dont understand what to say but, long curly hair is cute but you keep flicking your hair up so you may see, short hair is cool and you dont have to flick your hair up at all