Thank you to all! Yes more hearty meals and bourbon by the hearth will soon come! I will have my normal 6-6:30 work day, but no late nights! Unless we have some things going on with cows. I manage the cows with my dad and my uncle and cousin deal with the equipment repairs along with our mechanic. But everyone helps with crops. I live in Ohio, Warren, but my uncle does go south every January! MSO this is "pay the bills year". Meaning no big purchases, just pay the bills and stay in the black. I think corn is going for $3.40 a bushel and that is pretty bad. Milk is going for $14 per hundred weight. I heard milk may go up this month and next, but I doubt it will go up much. Fnord, Elbert is correct! My spelling is not that great sometimes. We plant triticale to cut and chop for the cows in the spring. It goes dormant like winter wheat. Bigpond, I'm not much on goats. I like the idea of sheep better, I enjoy a good lamb chop! My grandfather used to have 50 ewes and milked as well. But something's go to the wayside over the years.
I'd really like to tap a few hundred maples, but we need the evaporator to do that. I also may be expanding my bees next year so that will keep me busy at night. Oh and the baby is due on January so I'll be a papa then!
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