It's great to see farmers who have a great gift for communicating, out there telling the world about organic farming. I'm accidently organic, starting out growing to supply my own livestock and not wanting the exposure of writing checks. Great off farm career, grandson of a farmer, raised rural with the full gambit of livestock and poultry, but we never grew our own grain. We didn't feed much of it either, but that's an entirely different topic. It's profitable, but above all that it is FREEDOM! We were in the right place at the right time at about the same time we started getting really good at it, and I've never regretted it for a minute. On certain ground, with great weather, and impeccable timing, we get crops that are more than the machine can handle. Then again, sometimes we're working ground that's still building up, and we've dialed everything in with short season RM's, lower populations, and your at maximum forward speed that can be safely driven and not really stressing your equipment much because the yield isn't there. But I feel just as good about that, because I know we're going to get all that extra time for cover crops to go to work, and we're going to build several tons more of biomass as a result, and be putting that many more pounds of beef on our cattle. I can't talk organic with a conventional farmer, they look at me like I'm speaking a different language. They've all been telling me that I'm going to go broke for 22 years, but we're working 7000 acres this year split evenly between rented and owned and they are all still working the usual 1500-2500. I'm grateful for those who are better communicators and I who are putting themseles out there and telling the world about organic. I am also a huge fan of regenerative non organic. To me they are our beloved cousins.
It's great to see farmers who have a great gift for communicating, out there telling the world about organic farming. I'm accidently organic, starting out growing to supply my own livestock and not wanting the exposure of writing checks. Great off farm career, grandson of a farmer, raised rural with the full gambit of livestock and poultry, but we never grew our own grain. We didn't feed much of it either, but that's an entirely different topic.
It's profitable, but above all that it is FREEDOM! We were in the right place at the right time at about the same time we started getting really good at it, and I've never regretted it for a minute. On certain ground, with great weather, and impeccable timing, we get crops that are more than the machine can handle. Then again, sometimes we're working ground that's still building up, and we've dialed everything in with short season RM's, lower populations, and your at maximum forward speed that can be safely driven and not really stressing your equipment much because the yield isn't there. But I feel just as good about that, because I know we're going to get all that extra time for cover crops to go to work, and we're going to build several tons more of biomass as a result, and be putting that many more pounds of beef on our cattle.
I can't talk organic with a conventional farmer, they look at me like I'm speaking a different language. They've all been telling me that I'm going to go broke for 22 years, but we're working 7000 acres this year split evenly between rented and owned and they are all still working the usual 1500-2500.
I'm grateful for those who are better communicators and I who are putting themseles out there and telling the world about organic. I am also a huge fan of regenerative non organic. To me they are our beloved cousins.
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