Posts from — April 2008

Yeah I know, I haven’t posted anything for awhile. My excuse? Well, it is spring after all. We’ve been transplanting and seeding like mad, in between rain storms and my view has pretty much been this:

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Pretty decent quality video considering it’s with my phone and I’m rototilling……

Ok, so coming up is my latest equipment adventure. I’m working on making my “ground driven pull behind” fertilizer spreader into a “front mount 12 volt motor driven” fertilizer spreader.

Pictures and video to come.

I was just chatting with my friend Vince today at farmers market about grains. Many things to ponder when one sees the coming rise of fuel prices. When does it become economically viable to start producing grains for sale on a smaller scale? Commodities don’t currently allow for this to happen due to economic constraints. Some fellow farmers have gotten together a blog for such a discussion. Please check it out if this interests you.

All the folks involved do their homework on whatever topic they’re focused on. Good stuff. I’d also love to see some collaboration from outside the Oregon farmer contingency…anyone else know grains?