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October Farm Journal I thought it might be interesting for you to have some insight to what goes on in a typical month at Lynch Creek Farm - here's a sampling of highlights from October '08. Need to cut hay and seed Oats and Clover this month a little late, but whats new need to rent Seeder economics to purchase not sensible only seed in Spring and Fall a few days each called Billy Boykin in Bailey OK to use again this year just call back 1-week ahead . . . Better get tractor in top shape dont want it failing when I seed and have rented equipment by the day . . . Take off bent tractor lift arm for Bobbie Gravitt to straighten and weld a stiffening truss to keep it from twisting seems to work fine take off other lift arm big mess hydraulic must be drained to get rod out seems like a crazy design to me lube, fuel and air to all tires . . . buy off-road diesel really been expensive $4.25+ per gallon higher than gasoline crazy . . . weed and bushog rented oat field acreage (15 ac) and light disk to cut through thick clover before seeding easier said than done . . . tractor wont start clean battery terminals and jump since E&E (John Deere) worked on my high pressure diesel pump the tractor wont stop running got to stall it out with the clutch in gear crazy . . . E&E replaced the solenoid and it still keep running something wrong with the pump re-build from last Spring . . . working again with Molly (donkey) still having a hoof problem . . . switching cell phone service from Sprint after all these years hoping to get better reception on the farm you could die waiting for more bars . . . struggling to get ready for digital TV we have only had an old UHF antenna and three stations refuse to pay for TV after all these years looking to me that the digital conversion is lot more complicated than they would lead you to believe you really need a converter box, new antenna, pre-amp and rotor as well get ready to spend $300+ one-time to get TV free OTA . . . finally found the other underground power cable break to the back buildings Bill Wren came and spliced them finally running on 220v not just 110v . . . Joey Hite the ferrier stopped by the check on Molly will wait another month . . . attended another CDPAC (County Planning Meeting) looking out for Ag interests now that I am Ag Board Chair . . . finally arranged for Haywood Austin to cut and round bale my hay Talmadge Burgess could not do it this year . . . prep for hay rolls pickup free pallets in Louisburg area stage to field perimeters also cut 10 ft strips of plastic to cover the tubed rounds on palettes . . . buy more Ladino Clover seed Coastal holding 36 bags of untreated oats in Henderson . . . Haywood and Charles his brother cut, raked and round baled 60 this week I did pickup, palettes, stacking and tarping myself too many times off and on the tractor working alone . . . take the fresh eggs I promised to Haywood . . . sold more shallots this week planning to grow a lot more next year in the hoophouse . . . Nora Mitchell stopped by to check out my fields and new hay and square bales of oat hay and orchardgrass from spring will be growing more oat hay next year . . . have a new pet kitten Jasper called SNAP to arrange for her shots and neuter . . . get seeder from Billy and get it done now two days on the tractor - the latest I have planted in the fall but it been warmer and wetter than usual should be OK I hope.
It's amazing how
much planning and know-how it takes to keep a small farm operation sort-of
running. Still behind on many things I believe I should be doing. Just keep
doing the best I can. October 31st, 2008 For More Information Contact: |
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