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Thank you Mr. Farmer for your respect for a fallen family member.

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Anyone else noticing there is a lot of hay and hay equipment for sale locally?

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Monsanto Online Technology/Stewardship Agreement Online Renewal

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Hay, let's talk forages!

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MICROFARMER replied to John Walter's discussion Extras for your landlords?

"All of my landlords are very local so I plow drives when it snows, keep field edges mowed especially if they are along the road or up around their house, till gardens, blade drives when they call, stuff like that. I've also cleaned up a…"

Sep 1, 2011

MICROFARMER replied to dale a. Brandt's discussion What did "you" do to make money today?

"I went to physical therapy so I can make money again. lol"

Jan 10, 2011

THEY CALL ME MICROFARMER.

I picked up that nickname because I am the smallest farmer acreage wise in the neighborhood. (You got to start somewhere right?) I raise timothy and alfalfa with row crops thrown in the rotation. I do some custom work for my neighbors like hay and pick a little ear corn if someone wants some. I am a Wyffels seed corn dealer also.

I am a single parent of a 12 year old named Noah. He loves farming. He can't wait to get home from school to farm. He even stays in at recess sometimes to get his work done so we can help with harvest.

I have my 2 year Ag Business degree from Rend Lake College. I am attending Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. I am a Farm Business Management major graduating in May 2011.

I am always willing to talk forages and would like to network with others interested in forages. Drop me a line!

Thanks for looking,
Micro Farmer

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At 11:08pm on December 13, 2009, Brian Grossman said…: go to bed, you have finals in the morning! My first one is at 1 and it is genetics! booooo haha

At 5:00pm on October 23, 2009, Jessica Robinette said…: Hey there! I couldn't help but notice your tagline at the top of the page about forages. In January I will be getting my Master's in Ruminant Nutrition with an emphasis in forages. Just interested in what all you do and what kind of farming you're into...

At 10:47pm on September 14, 2009, Jerry said…: ill let you know the yield results as soon as i harvest. all of it is dry land though

At 5:33pm on September 14, 2009, Jerry said…: i havent tried it on corn yet but plan too. i have seen many acres of twin row corn here but most of it is furrow irrigated. the beans i have on twin rows are very good looking. i have been extremely pleased. the rows are about 7 inches apart with 30 inch middles

At 12:41am on August 11, 2009, Brett Emmert said…: Your welcome, glad you guys enjoyed them. Only wish you were able to see them in person because the pictures don’t do the topography justice. For the most part it is just wheat in rotation with summer fallow. Summer fallow is big out here, so much so that each year half of each farm is in production and half is in summer or chem/fallow. On my farm we are flat compared to most of those pictures and we are able to rotate with green peas or dry peas, with summer fallow mixed in, but that is about the extent of crops with exceptions from time to time with guys who have irrigated valley ground.

At 11:01am on July 7, 2009, Brian said…: Greetings MICROFARMER,
In some of your previous posts you talked about your bale accumalator. What has you experience been with this piece of equipment? What configuration do you use? Could you use the grappler fork on a small skid loader? Any additional info would be appreciated. TIA Brian

At 3:34pm on July 6, 2009, Michelle Thilges said…: Hey Shane! Had a great 4th, other than the boyfriend trying to kill me with a 30 mile bicycle ride on Friday. Glad to hear you did get everything in the ground, but yes, it will be a late harvest. It was interesting to see all the corn on the ride. Some of the fields, the corn was so high, and in others it hadn't grown hardly at all.

Hope you had a great holiday!

At 6:17pm on May 30, 2009, Michelle Thilges said…: Hey Shane, How's the planting coming? Hope it is dry enough around you to get into the field for a bit.

At 11:06am on May 6, 2009, Michelle Thilges said…: Shane, I was talking with Laurie Potter, another editor, and she is working on some hay articles for the summer issue and an upcoming beef insider. However, she was wondering, what kinds of articles are you looking for. Information about chopping, baling?

Good to hear you are a little bit ahead of last year. Hopefully you can keep that up. I can't believe school is almost out for the summer. It feels like we just got done with the holidays.

Thanks again for your input on the articles!

At 10:19am on May 6, 2009, Michelle Thilges said…: Hi Shane, Yes I wasn't too thrilled about the photo, but so it goes. How much rain have you gotten? We had quite a bit last week here, but it has pretty much stopped the past few days.

Thanks for the idea of more hay articles. I will look into that and see what I can do. I really like that you offered that. It helps us know what our readers want.

Hope you can get into the fields soon, and all is well. Take care.

Michelle

Oh yeah - I always stay out of trouble.

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