(NGC) - Farming noise.

[Gliderjohn]

Ain't it beautiful! After dark and wheat planting noise is in progress next to my house following bean harvest yesterday (which was very poor here, my beans averaged 15 bushel an acre, tighten the belt a notch or two.) If you live in the country you better recognize and appreciate farming noise or move back to the city.



GuzziJohn

[oldbike54]

 Sounds like the rain stopped John , farming is difficult .

 Oh , those farming noises are like a lullaby for grownups 

 Dusty

[Gliderjohn]

From oldbike54:

Sounds like the rain stopped John

Just been off and on sprinkles, rain is suppose to start tomorrow pm. We can use it.
GliderJohn

[guzzi4me]

My job entails delivering groceries to many places including the small farming communities here in central California.

I get to see the harvest of many different crops. Sometimes I even have to follow a group of harvesting equipment on the roads. I don't mind...that's how I get to eat!

It always amazes me the amount of work that goes on in the early morning...makes me feel like I'm not alone!

I always flash my lights at the farm workers....without them the country would starve. Wish more folks would realize how difficult it is to get the harvest from the field to the stores.......

Ride safe and often,

Jeff

and keep the farmers and workers in your thoughts....

[Kent in Upstate NY]

It is forage season in upstate N.Y.. Lots of large machines mowing corn and filling huge trucks that criss cross the county.  I  like living in a farming community. 

[JeffOlson]

My wife and I loved living in farm country, even when the machinery was working the field next to our old farm house.

[Rough Edge racing]

 I live in a rural farming town 20 miles SE of Rochester NY...I lease land to a local farmer...The view from my kitchen window, he broadcasted oat seeds for the winter and is covering them....Great riding roads here and you need to use caution as the next curve may have a huge tractor blocking the road and or mud on the road...

   

[Chuck in Indiana]

It was tough this year with the biblical rain.. but our soybeans did better than I expected. The corn is still in the field with various heights and stages of ear drop.

[Ncdan]

I love to hear the sound of a chainsaw off In the distance in the fall of the year. I hope mine doesn’t offend anyone:)

[acogoff]

     I rented out my land this year except for 30 acres after farming for 32 years and was lucky I did with the dryness and now the 7 inches of rain all at once delaying bean and corn harvest. And sugar beet lifting has commenced on Oct. 1 in the northern red river valley. Lots of beet trucks and greasy gumbo on the roads that have nearly made me go in the ditch even driving a pickup. So motorcyclists beware. Most everyone in the area knows that this is crunch time to get things done and knows to give these guys their space to make a living. Lots of stress in this farming business with little pay and it gets too a person after a number of years.

[John A]

When I broke down in Sharon Springs, Kansas, I stayed at a small RV park for transient harvest workers. It was behind the tire shop, not far from the parts store. It was a very good place to have a breakdown , one of the small towns we roll right on by, barely noticeing. Some of the local folks would stop by to see our progress and to offer help, rides to get food etc. I didn't need anything except parts for the old RV on a July 4th holiday and I had a Bassa and a Stone in the trailer. I like to be self sufficient when I travel. After repairs we headed for Colorado on a two lane. That was a couple hundred miles of desolation, not much civilization during a record hot spell. As we traveled west, we were taken by the poor condition of the crops, everything from the corn, beans and wheat. As a kid I always loved the sound of a hard working John Deere A or B, not many use them anymore. It's a sound I truly miss

[Chuck in Indiana]

It's a sound I truly miss

Back when I was a kid (4-5) we had a hay baler powered by a (obviously long stroke)  Wisconsin V twin. Talk about potato potato at about maybe 100 rpm?  Harley's got nothin..

[Pop]

This area of Southern NJ is still mostly agriculture. Most of which is machine. But this year I've noticed a turn to more hands on crops. Asparagus was a mainstay 40 years ago but blight and lack of farm labor almost wiped out the crop. I have noticed at least 200 acres or more in my immediate areas hat has recently been planted.This crop is planted from roots and then only harvested on third year. With all the talk of deportation, who do they think is going to harvest it. Not to mention, peppers, peaches, apples, potatoes(white and sweet), squash( summer and winter) and of course our sweet Jersey tomatoes.
I Don't mind a traffic jam when it's farm equipment or produce from the field.
God bless those that still do, I for one couldn't.
Pop

[Gliderjohn]

From John A:

As a kid I always loved the sound of a hard working John Deere A or B, not many use them anymore. It's a sound I truly miss

Those "Johnny Poppers" at tractor pulls amazed me how low a RPM they could go and not stall.
GliderJohn

[Lannis]

      Most everyone in the area knows that this is crunch time to get things done and knows to give these guys their space to make a living. Lots of stress in this farming business with little pay and it gets too a person after a number of years.

Well, we rent out our land each year (hay and soybeans this year) and I love the smells and sounds of planting, harvest and all the rest.

But SOME of my neighbors are so anxious to get something for free (they'd take white-hot nuclear fuel waste if it were free) that they spread "biosolids" on their fields ("processed" human feces).   

Cow manure, chicken manure, hog manure, fine, it's not bad at all.   But as humans, we react to the smell of human sh!t like we react to the smell of human dead bodies - it's horrible.

My first job involved working in both a trickle-filter sewage treatment plant, and in (on, actually) a sewage lagoon.   I'm no shrinking violet when it comes to smells like that, but you can't fool me with a name or description.   I know it when I smell it.

Even pigs know to dump their waste over in one corner of the pen.   We don't have any more sense than to spread it around where we live and grow our food, apparently.   

Many local farmers who tried it had such a reaction from their neighbors (even farming neighbors) that they've quit doing it, but some of them still can't resist ....

Lannis

[acogoff]

Well, we rent out our land each year (hay and soybeans this year) and I love the smells and sounds of planting, harvest and all the rest.

But SOME of my neighbors are so anxious to get something for free (they'd take white-hot nuclear fuel waste if it were free) that they spread "biosolids" on their fields ("processed" human feces).   

Cow manure, chicken manure, hog manure, fine, it's not bad at all.   But as humans, we react to the smell of human sh!t like we react to the smell of human dead bodies - it's horrible.

My first job involved working in both a trickle-filter sewage treatment plant, and in (on, actually) a sewage lagoon.   I'm no shrinking violet when it comes to smells like that, but you can't fool me with a name or description.   I know it when I smell it.

Even pigs know to dump their waste over in one corner of the pen.   We don't have any more sense than to spread it around where we live and grow our food, apparently.   

Many local farmers who tried it had such a reaction from their neighbors (even farming neighbors) that they've quit doing it, but some of them still can't resist ....

Lannis
[/quote
    ]Perhaps they have never heard of hepatitis?
 In my area the beet co-op spreads beet pulp and has a stink to it, but not after it is worked in. People say it is the smell of money. I have noticed that the more bigshot of an operator, the more poorly they consider their neighbors. If corporations ever take over the family farms, Katie bar the door.

[Rough Edge racing]

Well, we rent out our land each year (hay and soybeans this year) and I love the smells and sounds of planting, harvest and all the rest.

But SOME of my neighbors are so anxious to get something for free (they'd take white-hot nuclear fuel waste if it were free) that they spread "biosolids" on their fields ("processed" human feces).   

Cow manure, chicken manure, hog manure, fine, it's not bad at all.   But as humans, we react to the smell of human sh!t like we react to the smell of human dead bodies - it's horrible.

My first job involved working in both a trickle-filter sewage treatment plant, and in (on, actually) a sewage lagoon.   I'm no shrinking violet when it comes to smells like that, but you can't fool me with a name or description.   I know it when I smell it.

Even pigs know to dump their waste over in one corner of the pen.   We don't have any more sense than to spread it around where we live and grow our food, apparently.   

Many local farmers who tried it had such a reaction from their neighbors (even farming neighbors) that they've quit doing it, but some of them still can't resist ....

Lannis

 We have a lot of chicken crap and it's mixed in with plant compost and aged before using on a garden.....I believe all manure should be aged?  Far as i know, human shit can be used if it's aged and mixed with compost.....Yes, pigs do not like laying in shit....But we still call them pigs...A lot of dogs eat shit and people kiss their dogs...

[Socalrob]

Well, we rent out our land each year (hay and soybeans this year) and I love the smells and sounds of planting, harvest and all the rest.

But SOME of my neighbors are so anxious to get something for free (they'd take white-hot nuclear fuel waste if it were free) that they spread "biosolids" on their fields ("processed" human feces).   

Cow manure, chicken manure, hog manure, fine, it's not bad at all.   But as humans, we react to the smell of human sh!t like we react to the smell of human dead bodies - it's horrible.

My first job involved working in both a trickle-filter sewage treatment plant, and in (on, actually) a sewage lagoon.   I'm no shrinking violet when it comes to smells like that, but you can't fool me with a name or description.   I know it when I smell it.

Even pigs know to dump their waste over in one corner of the pen.   We don't have any more sense than to spread it around where we live and grow our food, apparently.   

Many local farmers who tried it had such a reaction from their neighbors (even farming neighbors) that they've quit doing it, but some of them still can't resist ....

Lannis

I understand human sewage has a very high content of prescription drug chemicals.  Are these chemicals removed by the sewage treatment process?  Personally, I would really want to check this out prior to spreading human waste from an urban sewage treatment plant on land I owned.

[Chuck in Indiana]

.I believe all manure should be aged?

Yeah, fresh is too hot and will over fertilize. Aged horse manure+tomato plants.. 

[rodekyll]

I understand human sewage has a very high content of prescription drug chemicals.  Are these chemicals removed by the sewage treatment process?  Personally, I would really want to check this out prior to spreading human waste from an urban sewage treatment plant on land I owned.

I'll go with the other objections to using human waste as broadcast fertilizer.    Besides, all that blue pill excrement will keep your asparagus from falling over.   

Farmed fish (tilapia for example) are fed concentrated waste.  I'm not saying what's in catfish pellets, but if you're serving them their lunch, don't pick your nose.  Another reason to insist on wild-caught seafood!