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    Stock Market is the bottom in?

    Whatever he reason I fear our hesitancy to deal with Putin more firmly will have long term consequences. I’m a hawk when it comes to Russia though.
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    Stock Market is the bottom in?

    I agree with everything in your post. I do believe the Indian government is possibly violating sanctions against Russia though. The U.S. could apply pressure on them to knock that off.
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    Stock Market is the bottom in?

    Just said on news that 49% of people are carrying a balance on their credit cards. Holy cats!
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    Stock Market is the bottom in?

    Couple quotes from a Forbes article…. I thought it was interesting. ===Presidents get a lot of credit and blame over rising and falling gasoline prices. In reality, there’s not a lot a president can do to impact gasoline prices in the short term. Longer term, a president can pass policies that...
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    My “Happy Accident” plot!

    What zone are you in? Did they over winter? I might do that again- I just worry that they are going to winter kill, but I guess the rye will take up the slack if it does.
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    My “Happy Accident” plot!

    I’m correcting my earlier post! I bought four bags of Survivor peas from Welter’s and two bags of Austrian’s from the local dealer. Think the Survivors’s were starting to bloom, purple flowers. I suspect the Survivor’s were the ones that did better for me but I didn’t keep good enough...
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    Tractor pics?

    5075m!
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    My “Happy Accident” plot!

    I am really pleased with it so far. Has made my life a lot easier!
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    My “Happy Accident” plot!

    Glad to hear that- was kinda worried about it. I have no experience with this at all! If this works out it’s going to be such a great way to go forward. Good plots and much less time intensive than what I was doing before. Benefits for all my wildlife. I am planning on doing a little...
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    My “Happy Accident” plot!

    My equipment probably isn’t perfect for this, this is a Woods PSS84 seeder. Has a gang of discs, a spike roller, then a cast iron cultipacker. Definitely not a no-till drill! Yet when I bang a stump, I really don’t feel like I have to be nervous about it. I’m still marking and removing old...
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    My “Happy Accident” plot!

    Here is an adjacent plot. The rye did better here in this plot than the peas. This is more of a clay that does fine with plots but you can tell it isn’t as good of soil as the loam in the bigger field I posted pics of above. Also planted in summer release. You can see the rye doesn’t lay...
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    My “Happy Accident” plot!

    Here is the same plot 05/12/24. Late summer I planted 50/50/50 rye/oats peas. I used a mix of winter peas and they didn’t winter kill which I’m not sure I can count on every year in my area. The peas really went crazy this spring. Yesterday I ran the seeder through it and planted summer...
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    Osage orange 🍊 hedge apple for wild life?

    That is really nice. I didn’t know here were insurance issues with the outside boilers. I might have to look back into getting a stove. Take another run at convincing the loving bride!
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    Osage orange 🍊 hedge apple for wild life?

    NW Illinois. We are basically Iowans, lol.
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    Osage orange 🍊 hedge apple for wild life?

    @Catscratch I could never convince my wife that we need an outdoor boiler. I cant tell you how many years of “free” heat I pushed in a pile and burned. It bothers me every time I do it.
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