[AT] OT Hello

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

Good call.

John


-----Original Message----- 
From: charlie hill
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 6:41 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Hello

John,  I'm kind of stuck with our place right now.   I'm pretty sure that
land rent has gone up in the area but the guy that tends our place
has cancer and is struggling to keep going.  The last think I want to do
right now is take a farm away from him or raise his lease.  I've been
wanting to go in a different direction for a couple of years but he's a good
guy and I guess I'll stick with him as long as he can hang on.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 7:44 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Hello

There is a little bit of corn left, quite a few beans. A lot of the milo has
been cut but everyone with double crop is at a standstill. Wheat planting is
about done, although the granary had more seed due in this week.

The remarkable thing is all the land that was in CRP acres has been pulled
out. 25 years ago nobody would plant it if you let them have it rent free.
Now folks are almost fighting for it. Lots of wheat planted this fall--it is
probably up 3x's in my county. I've seen guys running modern equipment, and
some guys running a fleet of 40 year old tractors, none of them are local.

John


-----Original Message----- 
From: charlie hill
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 6:33 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Hello

John all of the Milo down this way is long gone.  The only thing left in the
fields is a bit of cotton and a field of soy beans here and there.
Most everything is cleaned up and some fields have winter wheat or oats
coming up now.

It amazes me how much difference there is in our climates when you are as
the crow flies about 100 miles west and maybe 60 miles north of me.

Charlie


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