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To: bkopto
Trust me, I live right smack dab in the middle of big corn country and I have never seen a team of oxen and do not exect to.

Now, the farmer drive HUGE tractors with GPS devices and they plant 24 rows of corn at a single swipe across the field. This is high tech stuff and an 80 acre farm is quite rare.

229 posted on 05/15/2011 6:53:23 PM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

***This is high tech stuff and an 80 acre farm is quite rare.****

Lets all get together and prove you don’t need 80 acres and a team of oxen!

Just 40 acres and a mule! sarc/off


234 posted on 05/16/2011 8:16:57 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name. See my home page, if you dare!)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

I too live smack dab in the middle of corn country. I own 147 acres of tillable ground. I use to farm it myself until it got to expensive. My tenant farms it for me now and it takes him about two hours with a 32 row planter and GPS. Last year it averaged 175 bu per acre, dry. Wet 192/bu/A.

This year look for corn and beans top go hog wild, price wise. Due to the Corps of Engineers flooding millions of acres along the Mississippi.


239 posted on 05/16/2011 8:38:23 AM PDT by chainsaw (I'd hate to be a democrat running against Sarah Palin.)
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