6 acres this year, 5-10 acres is all we raise per year depending on the size of the fields we plant, don't have enough storage for much more than that. This is all of the row cropping we do, enough corn picked on the ear for cattle feed, mostly creep feed for the calves, no soybeans.
Hoping I can get another crib built in the near future to hold more ear corn to keep up with our increasing cow herd.
Yea it's a lot less work swapping half loaded wagons than pulling a loaded one out of the mud once it's stuck.
I've got a hoist to build one barge wagon and am looking for another, unloading ear corn from a gravity bed is easier than shoveling it off of a flat wagon but it's still a good work out for me.
Ford 601 side mount is all I've ever ran, dad bought one new in 64, still have it but it's completely worn out, the one in the photo is my 2nd. FIL had a NI pull type, didn't like it much, left more shelled corn in the field, took a lot more room to maneuver at the end of the field and seemed to get stuck easier.
It was a lot easier to hook and unhook from, for us once the picker was mounted that tractor was tied up till end of harvest.
Back in the day we had the only picker in the neighborhood and we picked everybody's corn, nowadays we're still the only one in the neighborhood with a picker but we're also the only one that picks ear corn.
We did do some small scale row cropping some years back but haven't had my brother's old 550 Massey out of the barn since corn prices dropped below $4.
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