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FarmerChick, I have a couple questions to ask you. You have claimed to be a farmer, what kind? And why are you not talking about your own farm? You keep referring to your friends farm. Do you make the management decisions or just talk with her?

Yes, they can buy feed cheaper but, still they need help. As you have pointed out, finding good, reliable, trustworthy, affordable help is very hard to come by. We grow our own hay and corn too. Drought this year has forced us to buy hay. We have bought it locally at a cheaper price than having...

The farm supports itself. It is a true business and I resent you implying otherwise. We could get by on the farm alone, if we were to choose to give up other things. But, feel that somethings are more important than others. If we can't have a little to enjoy life with then why bother with life...

Really, how do they manage in other countries? My BIL and his family lived overseas for a few years. $6/gallon of milk would be an example of food prices. It's this country that is spoiled with low food prices.

Those same expenses and regulations are there for the large farms as well. Plus, they have to hire employees=more expenese and more headaches as it's hard to find good trustworthy employees. I know of farmers here that wish they hadn't grown. They are having a harder time since growing than they...

Excuse me but, 10 year old cows can be very productive. We farm for a living. It is the farm that pays the bulk of the bills. My DH works out for the health insurance, as is the case for many farmers here. If a cow doesn't pay her way and make some profit she has to go. It's all in the care of...

So it looks like sun and a good quality moisturizer. :) I will tell her.

I agree.

:thumbsup Very nice looking shed and garden!

OUCH! First as many of you know, I'm a small dairy farmer. It's not 80 million people they are feeding but 8 million. Beekissed is right about the grain, if it's dry grain. By the program we use those cows would each need to give 180 pounds of milk/day. I don't know of any cow that does that...

Thanks for the suggestions, keep them coming!

I have a friend who has Psoriasis that the doctor's think may either have been caused by one of her meds or the meds may have aggravated it. They have taken her off the meds and put her on a bunch of nasty creams and oils that are suppose to help. It's been a month and they are not helping. We...

Cool a burn right away with ice and then use a salve. Rather you want to use aloe or honey, I don't think it matters but, for a second degree burn all a doctor will do is cool it and put burn ointment on it. Letting it breath is important too. It seems to me that it should be raw honey not the...

It's also not advisable to carry the SS cards around. Lock them in a safe at home. I hope everything turns out okay.

Not off my rocker, Dace. I wanted to say, I won't be around much and the reason being that I had been attack posting in a journal so therefore I won't post to them. Now the very people who attacked me there won't respect me here and let things be. LEAVE ME ALONE! I've had contact with other...

Without the journals there is next to nothing on this site! Take a good hard look. Most of the info one would come here seeking is buried in journals and I've already explained my problem with them.

I'm not ripping my way out, freemotion. It seems you have an issue. Please, leave my thread now. BBH, I'm not mad. Just stating that outside of the journals which, I won't post to and have explained why, there really is nothing here. I don't want to have to need info to post a question. If I...

What you don't get it? Then look here. This is how the board looked when I loggedout last time. The check marks represent journals. Not much left after that.

There has been more going on in PMs. As I stated, due to being attacked for asking simple questions-I wanted to understand, I won't post in journals anymore. Outside of the journals there is very little going on. Of the 11 threads posted since I was on last 7 are journals. One is this thread...

I have something to say. I joined this site after lurking for awhile. But, shortly after I joined I posted to someones journal and got attacked for it. I was told journals are private (hello, they are on a public forum). I attacked back but, will no longer post to journals. Most of the SS info...