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Andrew Akin
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Akin Hilldale Farm
HI everyone my name is Andy Akin. I live in south central IN half way between Indianapolis, IN and Louisville, KY just off of interstate 65. So if any of you northerners come down to the farm show thanks for passin through. I have been farming all my life mostly cattle, grain, and hay. After graudating from the University of Northwestern Ohio with a degree in agriculture equipment technology in 2004 I worked at a Caseih dealer for one year. After that I have been full time farming along side my dad. We about 700 acres corn/bean rotation 800 acres of grass hay, 50 acres of alfalfa. We also bale about 15,000 bales of straw a year off of surrounding farms, we custom cut and bale about 500 acres of hay ayear. We also have a 30 angus beef cow/calf herd where we feed out all the calves plus an additional 100 we feed. This year we sold about a dozen for freezer beef which this is catching on very well and looks promising for the future. I would like to expand the grain side to about 1500 to 2000 down the road. Also expand the beef cows to about 200 but pasture is limited around here.
So if anybody needs any hay, custom hay baling, or freezer beef let me know.
So if anybody needs any hay, custom hay baling, or freezer beef let me know.
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At my place its when ever its dry or frozen.LOL
yeah Jeff i read "THE WORST HARD TIME" it's a great book. Im kind of a history buff so i justed loved it, but the main reason for the start of the dust bowl is congress told farmers to raise more wheat. The native priarie grass that held that soil...
is that a 8650 about to sink
u people are nuts unless my dirt just a little harder to pull. I have a jd 4450 with a 7200 12 row and it struggles in some spots and thats 150 horses and about 5000 lbs heavier than a 6415. As i sit here and think around here the smallest tractor...
no not at all it would struggle with a 8 row
Oh yeah! You mean like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVsCvosVFLQ
BTW I think anyone who had a whoops moment needs to be nominated for the "Advocating for Agricutlure" award. And it's already set up:
www.agconnect.com/awards
How funny wou...
We burned down an 8010 last week Nov 5..... was able to save the header so we got a replacement combine the next day but still......
following buddy down the road and he had a 40' field cultivator, as we crossed a bridge i noticed the cultivator slowly veering off and there it went it went about 500' down a little path along the crick, the pin has worked its way out, nothing ba...
I hit the diesel barrel with a tractor one time because it had an oil leak and I lost steering power. I was pulling a full wagon downhill so the brakes didn't stop me in time. There was diesel all over the tractor, talk about an expensive screwup.
I think its 200,000 through fsa unless they up the amount in the last 2 years. I bought my farm throught them when i did it you could borrow 200,000 and if you do a bridge loan you can borrow another 200,000 through another lender and fsa will bac...
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Bottle Calves.
What is bottle calf prices now I haven't bought any in about 2 year lookin to maybe get some.
Posted on October 25, 2009 at 6:30pm —
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- At 9:10pm on December 3, 2009,
Jeff Caldwell said…
- Hey, Andrew. Boy, I sure don't know about that one, but I'd sure like to read something like that. Have you checked Amazon.com? I also check Barnes and Noble (store or online) sometimes. Another one maybe worth a shot might be Powells.com, the site for a big bookstore in Portland, OR (my wife's from there). They have a lot of history stuff on the western part of the country there.
Let me know if you find something good and can recommend one!
- At 2:48pm on October 29, 2009,
Chad Heveline said… - Hello Seymor, IN, I'm from down here in KY just below Madison, IN. Bottle Calves around here are pretty high right now. I was just at the stockyards Monday night and the bottle calves sold there went any where from $195 - $250. Good luck on getting some!
- At 7:44pm on October 16, 2009,
Eric Baeten said… - Hey thanks for the comment on my parents farm! It's green! lol! With red tractors!!
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