Market Farming

[Joan Vibert <joan AT windwalker-farm.com>]

Title: Re: [Market-farming] Chicken feed - growing grains for

We cut our wheat with the sickle bar attachment for our BCS – but we still had to rake it into piles and contain it somehow.  Just tied it into sheaves and dried it in the high tunnel – but then what?  Still have to get the grain off and stored.

Joan
Windwalker Farm
Ottawa,  KS

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From: <KAKerby AT aol.com>
Reply-To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:19:19 -0500 (EST)
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Chicken feed - growing grains for

We're looking at growing our own grains this year too, for the same reasons.  Past experimentation has shown that we can grow pretty much any of the small grains quite well, but harvest has been a PAIN.  I'm looking for equipment that can do a nice job harvesting something between 1/2 acre and several acres; not many combines in our neck of the woods.  Best solution I've found so far has been either the John Deere 12a or All Crop pull behind combines.  Neither of which are available locally but various online equipment supply networks could ship to me if we have enough $$$$.  What I'd really like to find is something that will hook up to my BCS that I can use.  Harvesting by hand gets old really fast, no matter what Gene Logsdon says.  Or maybe that's why traditional farms had 12 kids.
Kathryn Kerby (no two-legged kids to draft into service)
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA