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Have been 'following' Mike's collection for a few years now but there's a lot of trucks there I hadn't seen before. Good stuff, Olive!

Whatever rubs your buddah.

The Mack E Model Registry - 103 entries
The Mack A Model Registry - 14 entries

Olive, wheres Volume 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ETC?????

I go out every morning at 6:00 and hop on my trusty horse tractor and I head to the field to chop silage. I get in around 9:00 and hit the sack and hopefully the new babe lets me sleep. No time for pic postin' right now!

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Hello OTR,

Now that you are doing some harvesting, how bad is it in your area?

In this corner of the world, a few are going to get a second cut on hay but not too many.

Jim

Jim

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Hello OTR,

Now that you are doing some harvesting, how bad is it in your area?

In this corner of the world, a few are going to get a second cut on hay but not too many.

Jim

Jim - The crops are awful here. But I am making lemonade out of the big ol' lemon this season turned out to be. We are chopping all of our corn for silage (which was the plan from the spring anyway). A lot of my neighbors don't have cattle or fences anymore so I have been going around and trying to make deals with them where I get their drought ruined corn to chop as well. That has been a great help - I am at the point where I can feed my herd all the way through next May without having to buy any feed other than mineral. There is no hay around here whatsoever. This spring I bought 200 big bales from a neighbor for $30.00 a bale and he delivered them. The same guy sold some last week for $80.00 a bale! Things may get kind of weird if we have a bad winter for a lot of folks that did not buy their hay earlier.

I look for cattle prices to soar next spring if it greens up and we have grass - farmers are having to liquidate their herds and they are turning a lot of good young momma cows into hamburger right now that would have had babies next spring. There are fewer cows and calves on feed around here then I have ever seen. If we have another year like this one next year, I might have to give it up like a lot of folks are, but I still wake up thinking there is hope right around the corner!

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