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I do the production and tree care (and a lot of the maintenance and grounds care and sales and...) on a 130 acre nursery in New Jersey. I haven't looked into anything state specific but the federal CFAP stuff is dogshit for us. they only recently even allowed nurseries (and floriculture growers) to be eligible, but due to the eligibility reqs we wouldn't really get anything anyway, and even if our losses were eligible it's only something like 13 percent of wholesale value. It's not really that surprising - I can't imagine anyone really being shocked all of the money is going to corn, dairy, and soy. Just need to hunker down and hope next year is better.
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Aug 31, 2020 19:22
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final price point is out of the hands of any grower who isn't selling direct to consumer, no? that's not really just a dairy concern.
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Sep 1, 2020 04:35
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we just finished digging all our trees for the year. i only cursed at our tree spade like twenty times!
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Oct 26, 2020 19:11
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this might be a bit of a longshot, but does anyone know of any seed drills with a working width between like 10-11.5 feet in america? most anything i can find is in europe.
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Oct 29, 2020 19:29
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i managed to find a great plains drill at a neighbor's auction, actually, thanks for the recs are there any silage guys in here? have a few q's
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Nov 7, 2020 12:41
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any idea about what tonnage you can expect from ~100 acres of corn?
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Nov 8, 2020 17:52
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basic gist is that the silage guy behind me has had some fallow ground around 100~ acres he wants me to do some work on for him over the winter but (i'm guessing) doesn't have the cash right now. wants me to accept a percentage of his yield as pay - obviously i know poo poo happens so it's less about making sure i get my money and more about making sure I'm agreeing to something that's fair on paper. if he gets 5t/a that doesn't even pay for me to get my dozer there or to run it, but 20+ would actually put me on the 'you're robbing this guy' side of the deal
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Nov 8, 2020 23:28
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i'm in south jersey, so while it's not great corn country i have to imagine it's better than vermont, esp given recent trends. it was 70 degrees today and hasn't been below freezing yet
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Nov 8, 2020 23:47
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actually looks like 2019 average in NJ was 22 tons/acre. jesus maybe I'm in the wrong line of work
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Nov 9, 2020 00:02
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anyone have a good way to figure out where the gently caress im losing water because im gonna be blue for weeks at this rate
A 50S RAYGUN fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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Dec 1, 2020 17:43
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sort of, i must have a few main leaks somewhere that i can't find via surface water. i'm also trying to figure out where exactly all my loving tile drains empty into, and so far I've only found one that actually empties into my creek. the rest just seem to be putting the water ??? somewhere?
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Dec 1, 2020 18:53
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that's what I'm doing, hence me being blue. was just hoping there was a way that didn't involve my hands being blue for days 
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Dec 1, 2020 19:08
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bit of a strange question - what is the cheapest thing i could possibly plant that would eventually get tall enough that i could bale a cutting? right now on my farm i have red clover and some bum landscape fescue mix in between my nursery stock, and i'd like to replace that with something i could eventually bale. this isn't for feed purposes (it's for erosion control/seed covering during landscaping work) so my 'needs' are pretty simple.
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Sep 29, 2021 16:09
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