Ridgetop
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So right!
Farmerjan's journal - Weather
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SageHill
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That used to happen to my shovels long ago when we would have gardener come every so often. It stopped when I used PINK Duct tape and sparkly girly stickers.
Baymule
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Amen to that!You can't have too many tools
Ridgetop
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We marked all our equipment with bright blue and yellow paint when the kids were in 4-H and showing at all the Fairs. People would "borrow" stuff without asking and the bright combination of colors made it easy to identify our equipment when we waked through the barn searching for it. The "borrowing" wasn't the problem. The problem was the "borrower" not returning it and then "loaning" it to someone else! Sometimes when we went to claim our equipment the perso would refuse to give it to us and we would be told it belonged to some else - the last person to pass it along! Finally I made a stencil and would paint our name on all our stuff usig the bright blue and yellow. Eventually people would recognize the colors as ours and people would sometimes return our stuff or identify it if someone on the other side of the barn asked who it belonged to. LOL
Good times!
Good times!
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Sunday morning... the low was only 65 last night. It hit 83 during the day.
I went to the bull sale at the farm just down the road 10 miles or so... The prices were up naturally with the much higher prices of the feeder calves... There were 2 I considered... DS didn't go and we didn't need another bull... but those 2 were built more to my liking and they had genetics that we like behind them. All the bulls brought over $5,000 and most were in the $6500-8500 range. 2 brought over $9,000. They also sell about 10-12 registered bred heifers and they were in the $4,000-6500 range.
Talked to a couple guys that go to the stockyard regularly and the one said that prices were off $.10-.20 yesterday on most stuff and not many buyers there... I think that some of the order buyers were sitting on it to see how this tariff stuff goes.
Not helping that the stock market has taken a hit. I think it will level out a bit in another couple days... honestly, it needed a correction.
DS texted me that he had a headache and had forgotten about it until too late to go... He said maybe I can get in the calves and cow this afternoon. I said that was fine... However, I will not be doing this in the rain. So if we get rain starting by noon and rains most of the day, I will not be dealing with getting them in to move them. It will be slick up there at the pen to back the trailer in... it can wait another day or 2. We'll see how the weather goes.
I hung a load of jeans after I got home from the bull sale since the sun had come out. Light breeze... had washed them in the morning. Put a gallon of tea out too.
Deb was out to the farm, so we went out to eat. She was in the mood for a shrimp basket at the local place just a couple miles south. I had a "steak salad"... big salad with hot shaved steak on top... actually not bad. I have been eating some out of the freezer here and have had seafood twice so not interested in that and didn't want a sandwich. Plus, I can make things like pasta here.. YEP, getting "cheap" on the eating out... but since I eat home alone alot, it was nice to go out for a little bit. Figure I can do that once every week or two... plus I usually always bring half home, so not very expensive overall... She is facing some issues lately, hurt her shoulder 6 months ago... been going to some PT, but now she is having some trouble with her speech and has been referred to a neurologist... I am thinking maybe some x-rays/MRI is in the future.... It is worrying her some I can tell... her dr said she did not suspect a mini stroke which Deb said she considered a possibility at first. Thinking that it is in her upper spine.... so first she has to see a neurologist... so calling for an appt Monday... She is 60ish.... about 10 yrs younger than me...
THIS PRIME stuff really STINKS......
Up and going, this morning... DS called to see if I could bring a flat shovel and my little "AirMoto" thing to blow up a tire on the silage wagon at the pasture next door (grant's) where the cows and fall calves are.. He brought a silage wagon up to them... and wanted to clean out the leaves and stuff out of the other one, blow up the tire that was flat and take it back.
Since he sold all the steers in Feb, and then had been feeding all the heifers in the bunk in the barn silage.. well we sold 26 in the last 2 weeks... and he is not feeding near as much silage. The silage bunker is open... and now with the warm weather it is starting to mold on the exposed surfaces... because he is not feeding it out fast enough. There is only about 8 ft left to finish up the silage in the pit and it needs to get fed out, so he is going to bring it to this group of cows and calves also to use it before it spoils. It was keeping good in the cold weather, and he was feeding alot more... but now it needs to be used up in the next couple weeks... so he will feed it to this group of cows. The weather is supposed to get colder next week so they ought to eat more of it.
So, that done, I went to snyder's and checked the 2 heifers still due and Jess, my longhorn. Nothing yet but the one heifer is very loose in the vulva area... and she is making an udder... the other one is not showing much, and she is supposed to be farther along... so we will see. Jess looks like she is making a little more udder, but she is so small and tight that she never shows much udder... she just pops one out suddenly.... makes a nice small udder, and raises a phenominal calf with her rich milk. Too bad she is not real tame, I'd love to get a milk sample to check for butterfat and all... but she does her thing and does not want to be handled and I respect that. There is no chute I have that she could go in to "head catch her" either... so she will just do her thing and I will be happy with that.
The forecast this morning showed rain before noon... but just checking the radar now, shows not until after 4 now. I am going to go back to snyder's and see if I can get the stupid cow in, and the calves I guess... They were up near the barn area earlier... maybe they will come in...
Just ate the other half of my "steak salad " for lunch... got some bags of garbage ready to take to the dumpsters... time to get out there and do some more stuff... It is nice out... partly sunny and mid 70's. Light breeze so not hot.
I went to the bull sale at the farm just down the road 10 miles or so... The prices were up naturally with the much higher prices of the feeder calves... There were 2 I considered... DS didn't go and we didn't need another bull... but those 2 were built more to my liking and they had genetics that we like behind them. All the bulls brought over $5,000 and most were in the $6500-8500 range. 2 brought over $9,000. They also sell about 10-12 registered bred heifers and they were in the $4,000-6500 range.
Talked to a couple guys that go to the stockyard regularly and the one said that prices were off $.10-.20 yesterday on most stuff and not many buyers there... I think that some of the order buyers were sitting on it to see how this tariff stuff goes.
Not helping that the stock market has taken a hit. I think it will level out a bit in another couple days... honestly, it needed a correction.
DS texted me that he had a headache and had forgotten about it until too late to go... He said maybe I can get in the calves and cow this afternoon. I said that was fine... However, I will not be doing this in the rain. So if we get rain starting by noon and rains most of the day, I will not be dealing with getting them in to move them. It will be slick up there at the pen to back the trailer in... it can wait another day or 2. We'll see how the weather goes.
I hung a load of jeans after I got home from the bull sale since the sun had come out. Light breeze... had washed them in the morning. Put a gallon of tea out too.
Deb was out to the farm, so we went out to eat. She was in the mood for a shrimp basket at the local place just a couple miles south. I had a "steak salad"... big salad with hot shaved steak on top... actually not bad. I have been eating some out of the freezer here and have had seafood twice so not interested in that and didn't want a sandwich. Plus, I can make things like pasta here.. YEP, getting "cheap" on the eating out... but since I eat home alone alot, it was nice to go out for a little bit. Figure I can do that once every week or two... plus I usually always bring half home, so not very expensive overall... She is facing some issues lately, hurt her shoulder 6 months ago... been going to some PT, but now she is having some trouble with her speech and has been referred to a neurologist... I am thinking maybe some x-rays/MRI is in the future.... It is worrying her some I can tell... her dr said she did not suspect a mini stroke which Deb said she considered a possibility at first. Thinking that it is in her upper spine.... so first she has to see a neurologist... so calling for an appt Monday... She is 60ish.... about 10 yrs younger than me...
THIS PRIME stuff really STINKS......
Up and going, this morning... DS called to see if I could bring a flat shovel and my little "AirMoto" thing to blow up a tire on the silage wagon at the pasture next door (grant's) where the cows and fall calves are.. He brought a silage wagon up to them... and wanted to clean out the leaves and stuff out of the other one, blow up the tire that was flat and take it back.
Since he sold all the steers in Feb, and then had been feeding all the heifers in the bunk in the barn silage.. well we sold 26 in the last 2 weeks... and he is not feeding near as much silage. The silage bunker is open... and now with the warm weather it is starting to mold on the exposed surfaces... because he is not feeding it out fast enough. There is only about 8 ft left to finish up the silage in the pit and it needs to get fed out, so he is going to bring it to this group of cows and calves also to use it before it spoils. It was keeping good in the cold weather, and he was feeding alot more... but now it needs to be used up in the next couple weeks... so he will feed it to this group of cows. The weather is supposed to get colder next week so they ought to eat more of it.
So, that done, I went to snyder's and checked the 2 heifers still due and Jess, my longhorn. Nothing yet but the one heifer is very loose in the vulva area... and she is making an udder... the other one is not showing much, and she is supposed to be farther along... so we will see. Jess looks like she is making a little more udder, but she is so small and tight that she never shows much udder... she just pops one out suddenly.... makes a nice small udder, and raises a phenominal calf with her rich milk. Too bad she is not real tame, I'd love to get a milk sample to check for butterfat and all... but she does her thing and does not want to be handled and I respect that. There is no chute I have that she could go in to "head catch her" either... so she will just do her thing and I will be happy with that.
The forecast this morning showed rain before noon... but just checking the radar now, shows not until after 4 now. I am going to go back to snyder's and see if I can get the stupid cow in, and the calves I guess... They were up near the barn area earlier... maybe they will come in...
Just ate the other half of my "steak salad " for lunch... got some bags of garbage ready to take to the dumpsters... time to get out there and do some more stuff... It is nice out... partly sunny and mid 70's. Light breeze so not hot.
Ridgetop
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You are probably right on the money. I read in Livestock Weekly that cattle prices were off about $20 with buyers sitting on orders. Not as many animals going for sale with owners holding them to see what hapens with the tariffs. Also read that this is the lowest number of retained heifers in years.
Ridgetop
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Just saw an interview on the TV about the tariffs and their impact on cattle. We are not allowed to export any beef to Australia but we inport well over 10 million lbs. of Australian beef into the US! The cattle grower being interviewed said tariffs on import beef would be good for US beef. It should work the same way for US lamb too. 
SageHill
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It should work the same way for US lamb too.
and as is in a lot of things - perhaps we were ahead of our time!
Baymule
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There are now tariffs on Australian and New Zealand lamb too. BUT American lamb producers can’t keep up with demand.Just saw an interview on the TV about the tariffs and their impact on cattle. We are not allowed to export any beef to Australia but we inport well over 10 million lbs. of Australian beef into the US! The cattle grower being interviewed said tariffs on import beef would be good for US beef. It should work the same way for US lamb too.
Speaking of tariffs:
So, just keep our own beef/meat. Better than the cheap imports.
So, just keep our own beef/meat. Better than the cheap imports.
