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Broken stuff... broken stuff as far as the eye can see. Hey, I haven't used this corn sheller in 3 years... and it's somehow broken now, despite being fine last time we used it.
I see what your trying to say....but thats just labor......it's like a guy flipping burgers calling himself a chef. sure he flipped and cooked a burger....but he isn't a chef that planned, timed and cooked a full course meal. It's like the guy pounding nails in the cathedral........sayin g he built it....sure he "built it" but he didn't plan, designing or figure out the stuff that matters.If it's a small farm operation there isn't much to it......but when you have scale.....it gets pretty complicated. Making sure everyone is effecient for fuel, labor, machine hrs, and time. Timing things at harvest to fill contracts.....not harvesting to wet or to dry. Keeping trucking to a minnimum & trucking to the right place for the better price. Contracting fuel having it delivered to the fuel shuttles. Shipping or selling the grain....fertilizer pricing chem programs. For example this fall/winter prepay, Having the connections and time to help with the pricing and negotiating.....I was able to shave $15,000 cost of the chem side for next year $20,000 off soybean seed purchases, and another $12,000 off seed corn purchases. Then the negotiation on when to pay vs when they want.....another $10,000 saved in less interest. All done while driving a tractor with GPS guidance.
OMG.....is that not the truth.....you put stuff away or in the shed in good working condition.....they you pull it out and are like.....**censored**....
Wow, with all that money saved the farm might actually end up in the black.
Anyone have any actual fishing information like is the water between the levels of ice starting to freeze? Some places there wasn't any but some places had 10-12" of really cold water between the frozen slush on top and the ice.
If you manage things right in a business like farming u never actually make money. When you make money it just gets reinvesting in assets to keep from paying a bunch of taxes. Hence why most farmers go to the day they die..Asset rich/cash poor......then Uncle Sam gets a windfall of tax money at the end....Death and taxes right. It comes down to stupid stuff like this.....should I pay taxes.....or should I pay for fuel, chemical, seed, and machinery I’ll need later.
Dont you need a camera on Spirit because they are mostly eating chironomids? Them little green and red worm looking things in their bellies are midge larvae. That's why the perch have mud on their nose sometimes and they barely bite.
Yeah, I wouldn't spend 5 minutes on Spirit for perch.
Some years it's not bad at all. I used to fish Spirit every day. I would fish West in the morning until 3pm, go get something for lunch then try to be dragging out from the Spillway on Spirit by 330 to get a few eyes and some perch. And I would get a few every day. Idk what happened but around 10 years ago maybe, you couldn't buy a decent perch on Spirit. Since then, its completely cyclical. Lots of nice ones or none. This year, it's none. I'm sure there are some but my summer buddies made me fish it a few times and we got zero over 10". I finally got them up to SD and we had a blast.
Anybody out today? I am planning to go tomorrow. After I get a little sleep and probably work a few hours.
I'll meet you up there. I have the worst schedule. I wake up and decide if I want to go to my pt job based on how I feel. I'll PM you my phone number
Have there been any trucks and wheelhouses out on any of the IGLs yet this year?
Kabeles said on Facebook yesterday that permanents were going on at Spirit, so take that for what it's worth. I mean, it is Kabeles...
Kabeles has great up to date info they give out on a weekly if not daily basis. From fishing and ice reports to road conditions and newly stocked items at the store. Great place to do business with and to be in touch with both before and when you arrive at the lake to fish.Layne
I'm praying whoever is working on Shucks is gonna have gear and bait again. Poor Stans is gonna be hurting if they get good and start cleaning fish. Kabeles can keep posting bikini pics, some guys like those.I'd think long and hard before I would haul a nice wheelhouse out right now with no cold weather forecast and snow every 3 days. Might be a chore getting it off the lake. We are one rainy day from really crappy access for wheeled traffic.
Like the rest of the day. Every time a nice one came in, 5 babies rushed in front of it to get your bait. I went back to Emerson Sunday, far fewer fish but better size ratio. My buddy caught one about 10.5", beautiful fish.
Facebook marketplace has gotten me into trouble several times. So I agree. But I deleted it because I'm an American and FB is anti-American.