Why are you interested in farming?

[Tottbot]

Well almost the Whole of my family( then i mean cousins, ''plastic-dads-grandads* and all those stuff) Are farmers, My mom's dad is a crop farmer and grows around 100 hectares of wheat/grain i belive, they have an old ford that i dont rembember the model, a newer ford that i dont know model either, a Zetor... lets see dont rembeber that one either, a big Claas Combine that i dont know model EITHER and they also have and good ol' James(A tractor-exevator) that i all LOVE to drive...

My ''Plastic-dads-granddad''* is mainly a cattle farmer whit around 100 hectares too, mostly for cattle, around 40% and 30% Grassland for our 120 beef cows(Shaloré And Limosine) and the rest is wheat they make to flour to feed the cattle when inside...
And they have 2 Valtra, 1 whit frontloader and 1 that is HOLY poo, a very old Massey they use for feeding the animals when they are inside...

At last my Cousins: They have around 400 sheeps(Tahts a bit impresive for being Finland!), but they only have 1 massey whit frontloader that pulls everything on the farm=) They used to have dairys but it got too much and they now hire out the stable to a finnish guy that have his cows there...


That woould be it, i got intrested in farming when i was 3-4 years old, when i had a ride in grand-dads Zetor, then i exploded in intress when mom separated from dad and met another one, this is where ''plastic-dads-granddad'' comes in, when we first went up to see his parents, the first i thinked when i opened the car door was: This is the place im gonna spend the rest of my life, Sweet Home Finland!

[spike]

Well I grew up in the countryside of Wales with John Deere tractors wizzing up and down the main road right outside my house going to the local potatoe farm.

Scince I had been introduced to excorvators and wheeled loaders at an early age at the paper mill where my grandad worked machines have been my main interest right through life.

So interested in tractors I got interested in there whole purpose and work.

But I now work with bigger and better machines
(timber harvesters and Forwarders) than tractors in forestry but I still have a strong interest in farming.

[fatty09]

well im 17 my dad and his brothers own a 1000 acre farm in england
its been in te family for 3 generations we are a dairy and x arable (we just rent alot of the fields out now) we also have a 500 cow sutcler heard and we have are own butchers shop and dairy.
ive been intrested in farming all my life but i like the tractor side of things there note beter than watching big tractors plow a field its the best thing the world.
i am also hoping to got to australia in september to work with some big machine lol..

[-*-JD8530-*-]

well all i want to be was a farmer i don't think i could't do any other jobs
i like when the corps are coming in when tyour sowing you can never tell whats going to happon in the farming world its all good fun

[Tottbot]

[quote author="[AT]ed7930" timestamp="1231276921" source="/post/1056/thread"]well all i want to be was a farmer i don't think i could't do any other jobs
i like when the corps are coming in when tyour sowing you can never tell whats going to happon in the farming world its all good fun
[/quote]

Yep, its all Jolly fun ;D

[Roz]

before my great grandad they were all farmes, my grandad was an engineer/contractor and I've grown up Driveing and contracting, Its in my blood!

[paddymick]

Im not really interested in the farming end of things im more interested in machinery the bigger and louder the better But when the lotto numbers come up i think a farm would be near the top of the list

[Roz]

I was just re reading the first post and i remebered the first time I stepped into the mini digger and thought, This is what i'm gonno do for the rest of my life

[Tottbot]

And also im soon of to highschool and we are gonna have this ''meeting'' where we choose what ''path'' we wanna wander( for example- Creative-u get more wood/metalwork and stuff, Nature-More physics, animals and stuff...) so ill might be contracting in 3 yers

[lazzy]

I got interested in farming only a short time ago when i moved to Central new york,USA.... After a few months living here i started working on a dairy farm doing chores such as..........Pushing feed out from in front of the cows into the barn cleaner which takes all the manure,hay,excess feed into the manure spreader......i also throw donw hay from the hay mill(Loft) we have small square bales i also feed calfs grain. i dont do anything on tractors yet but my dad said they were taking about this hay season putting me on there Allis Chalmers 175 and raking(Lining) hay here's there equipment list:

Tractors:
IH 3588 2+2(4wd Articulating)
IH 1066
Ford 8700
Allis chalmers 175
Farmall 806
Case IH 7120
Case IH 2470 "Traction king"(4wd Articulating)
Hay equipment:
Kuhn Rake*(Small 1 rotor and Medium 2 rotor)
NH 575 SM. SQ baler
NH diskbine*
Gehl Pull behing forager*(also has corn head)
Other equipment:
JD and IH plows*
JD Corn planter*
JD pull behing Fertilizer sprayer*
NH 3110(Maybe) Liquid side delivery Manure spreader
NH 195(Maybe)Box rear discharge Manure spreader
Knight Feed Mixer Wagon*
and also other implements i cant remember

IH=International Harvester
NH=New Holland
JD=John Deere
*=Not sure on exact model

Lazzy

[Tottbot]

Holy crap! that sounds nice!

[lazzy]

Yeah! Not sure how many acres but they have a corn field thats about 10 acres they use for silage they borrow a Old JD Self propelled forage harvester they also have a few other corn fields and some hay fields. They use to raise pea's for baby food

[Tottbot]

They feed babies whit that?

[lazzy]

Human baby's not calves ;D no they feed calves grain and hay then silage as they get older,and if you new i ment human baby's then Yes they do feed baby's that crap

[Tottbot]

Phew, Stardet to get worried xD