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11/24/13, 08:52 AM
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Location: SE Georgia
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They need better corn transport trucks.
I haven’t seen the trucks going down the road, but they are spreading corn all over the side of the road. I’m not exaggerating, there must be 50 pounds or more just in front of my house alone. The farmers grow the corn for the local poultry company. The trucks are leaking corn like crazy. It’s easy to find their route from the fields, just look for the corn. One side of the road only. Birds are enjoying it, dining on the side of the highway. Lots of birds, from little ones to turkeys. A big buck was hit on the side of the road, I’m sure he was feeding on the corn. They need better transport trucks.
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11/24/13, 09:04 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Indiana, USA
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Are they leaking, or is the corn coming over the top?
A lot of farmers are in a rush now, so they might be filling the trailers up to the very top.
A win for the birds.
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11/24/13, 09:27 AM
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Probably blowing off the top of the loads. Time is money and they can't afford to have a combine sitting idle in the field, thus the hurry with the loads. It can look like a lot, but in the overall picture, it isn't much. And the birds benefit.
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11/24/13, 10:29 AM
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Which is why we need to get rid of CORPORATE farming!
Why should a farmer have to farm 2,000 acres just to make a decent living?(yet he is looking for more land, and none is available)
Why should a Farmer sell his soul for a one million dollar CAT combine?
Why should we allow GMO crops in our fields?
Why is no till chemicals acceptable?
I know of a few Farmers left that use "proper" grain trucks, Farming has gotten too big. Corporations with obscene profits and greed are ruining our bread basket.
Farming today is BIG BUISNESS, I don't see them at the local auto parts stores in the summer, or at the local coffee shop, neither do I see them pulling weeds out of a bean field. Heck most of them no longer wear Denim coveralls. Instead you see them suit up and drive 50 miles to some "Illinois growers association" convention, or planning their grain contracts!
Deep in debt, not connected to the land, a pawn of corporations, that is today's farmer.
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11/24/13, 10:38 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: W. Oregon
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LOL. As long as the people are fat and happy....James
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11/24/13, 10:44 AM
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Ya re4ally America wants cheap food that is why. SO that is why we Need farms like that. And I agree what looks like a lot spilled is very little compared to what is taken off the field, won't be missed at all, and the birds are feeding very nicely from it. LOL
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11/24/13, 10:54 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by VERN in IL
Which is why we need to get rid of CORPORATE farming!
Why should a farmer have to farm 2,000 acres just to make a decent living?(yet he is looking for more land, and none is available)
Why should a Farmer sell his soul for a one million dollar CAT combine?
Why should we allow GMO crops in our fields?
Why is no till chemicals acceptable?
I know of a few Farmers left that use "proper" grain trucks, Farming has gotten too big. Corporations with obscene profits and greed are ruining our bread basket.
Farming today is BIG BUISNESS, I don't see them at the local auto parts stores in the summer, or at the local coffee shop, neither do I see them pulling weeds out of a bean field. Heck most of them no longer wear Denim coveralls. Instead you see them suit up and drive 50 miles to some "Illinois growers association" convention, or planning their grain contracts!
Deep in debt, not connected to the land, a pawn of corporations, that is today's farmer.
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You can do as you like with your land, they can do as they like with theirs. You seem to think a "good" farmer would be out there still farming 40 acres with a mule. The tools and methods of farming have changed just the same as CPA's don't use a quill pen to keep books anymore and doctors don't bleed you with leeches to cure what ails you.
You can grow what you like, buy or don't buy what you like. No need to badmouth the people who are feeding the other 299,999,999 people in this country, plus others around the world.
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11/24/13, 11:18 AM
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My goodness, why are you not out there gathering it up for your chickens, etc! ALmost as good as having feed delivered to your barn!!! What a boon.
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11/24/13, 11:38 AM
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What is a "proper grain truck"?
geo
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11/24/13, 11:50 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by VERN in IL
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Deep in debt, not connected to the land, a pawn of corporations, that is today's farmer.
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Not this farmer!
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11/24/13, 12:25 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
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Don't plant it though, OR plant any other corn near. Monsanto will come after you. LOL....James
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11/24/13, 01:42 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by geo in mi
What is a "proper grain truck"?
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Yes, what is a "proper grain truck"??
And who mentioned 2000 acre corporate farms.?? The spilled grain could just as easily be from many different local small grain farmers who sell the grain to the poultry farm.
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11/24/13, 01:54 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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LOL! Around here it is cotton. Sometimes the roads look like winter arrived early. As long as the septic tank companies have good trucks, I'm fine.
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11/24/13, 02:58 PM
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In NC, DMV will give you a ticket for not covering your load. Doesn't matter what it is that you're spilling out on the road.
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11/24/13, 03:25 PM
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We have the same thing in WI. Losing Load On Road.
BUT I am sure they cut AG slack, they know it is hard to stop things falling out of gravity boxes, feed bunkers, hay being transported all sorts of things that I am sure is being looked the other way when it comes to spilling some little corn around.
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11/24/13, 03:42 PM
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We used to go around the county picking up the piles of grain from the sides of the road where the trucks parked for hubby's mom's chickens.
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11/24/13, 05:05 PM
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I read the OP, thinking of whole corn, still on the cob. A couple of years ago, I was following two semis with open double trailers on I-84. Kind of following...they passed me, going about 85 (speed limit 55 for trucks, I was going 65). Corn was flying out the tops of the trailers, all over the freeway, lining the sides of the road. LOL. Scary.
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11/24/13, 05:15 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: SE Georgia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cjean
I read the OP, thinking of whole corn, still on the cob. A couple of years ago, I was following two semis with open double trailers on I-84. Kind of following...they passed me, going about 85 (speed limit 55 for trucks, I was going 65). Corn was flying out the tops of the trailers, all over the freeway, lining the sides of the road. LOL. Scary.
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Not on the cob, but kernels. More today. Several crows were having a grand feast this afternoon on my drive way, guess they didn't want the dirty corn on the dirt. 
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11/24/13, 05:36 PM
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Now we know why a chicken crosses the road.
geo
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11/24/13, 07:39 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Indiana, USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by VERN in IL
Which is why we need to get rid of CORPORATE farming!
Why should a farmer have to farm 2,000 acres just to make a decent living?(yet he is looking for more land, and none is available)
Why should a Farmer sell his soul for a one million dollar CAT combine?
Why should we allow GMO crops in our fields?
Why is no till chemicals acceptable?
I know of a few Farmers left that use "proper" grain trucks, Farming has gotten too big. Corporations with obscene profits and greed are ruining our bread basket.
Farming today is BIG BUISNESS, I don't see them at the local auto parts stores in the summer, or at the local coffee shop, neither do I see them pulling weeds out of a bean field. Heck most of them no longer wear Denim coveralls. Instead you see them suit up and drive 50 miles to some "Illinois growers association" convention, or planning their grain contracts!
Deep in debt, not connected to the land, a pawn of corporations, that is today's farmer.
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I always thought farmers, were in business to make money, not prove a point.
Most of the ones I know, that make a lot of money, still work pretty hard.
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