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In Montana it's fairly lax but it probably varies from state to state. For eggs you need a license for over 9000 eggs per month. The license isn't a big deal but I think the eggs have to be washed and candled then and you aren't allowed to reuse cartons. Meat only has to be inspected if you...

I don't know. The chickens are definitely easier to do and probably easier to sell also. My girlfriend bought a couple of chickens from a couple doing it in North Dakota last year and they had raised 300 birds and sold them all for $18 each almost instantly. Their post on Facebook saying that...

This is the video that inspired my current hog project. I don't know what the climate is like where you are but I imagine it's a lot closer to where polyface farms is in Virginia than I am out West. You probably can't make the money that they do because Joel Salatin is super famous and a...

I shouldn't say you can't make the hay thing work. You can't do it with big modern hay equipment, but if you're going to get a tractor you can probably pick up a 3-point sickle bar mower and a rake for next to nothing at an auction or something and that stuff is fairly simple to run and work...

How much land are we talking about? What kind of farming are you interested in? Alfalfa is very good for the soil being a deep-rooted perennial and also a legume which can fix nitrogen in the soil from the air. You will never be able to pay off haying machinery with a small amount of alfalfa...

I used a Wagner airless sprayer in my house. It's a lot of setup and cleanup, but you can paint incredibly fast in between. I used it on the ceiling and for primer on the walls and floor when the house was gutted. I don't know that I'd use it indoors on a finished house just because it takes...

I think someone beat you to that one. https://www.minilonghorn.com/ Maybe not as miniature as people would like, but they'll probably get there. Miniature Zebu are more miniature, but probably doesn't speak to the heart of Texans with spare land and cash quite as much.

Well thanks for brightening the thread with this irrelevant nonsense and seasoning it with nerd rage.

So you think the IRS is going to come for me because I'm joking about how my ranch isn't very profitable on the internet? Don't you have something more important to worry about?

We are trying to make money, but realistically, if the goal was maximizing income we wouldn't be doing it. I could make more money by just selling the land and investing the money in index funds. I could probably lease it out for $100K+ a year and then go work as an engineer for another $100K...

Shit, does that mean it's supposed to make money?

It didn't seem off to me. The guy lives with his mom, solved one case that was actually solved by a dead PI, and Mare had to tell him to draw. Nothing about him really said the dude should be a steely eyed killer. Odds are it was the first time he'd ever drawn while on duty let alone under...

Not really more work, but they take longer to get to butcher size. I've been told about 14 months of age is when they can be slaughtered.

Bumping this thread because even though I'm not a hobby farmer, we're trying something new that is starting out as a hobby and I hope might turn into a business down the line. We just got our hands on 3 Mangalitsa pigs. If you haven't heard of them, they are referred to as "the kobe beef of...

90% of baseball is 1 pitcher vs. 1 batter at a time. Much less complex game. Football also has more injuries. Injury can throw a wrench into any sport, but there's just more of them in football.

It would be ridiculously hilarious if the Ingenuity drone just flew over and dropped a bomb on China's rover and then NASA was like "No, Ingenuity was nowhere near there at the time, it must have been some other drone".

I think PFF is about 75% just people jacking off with math. I listen to a podcast with a guy who works there and sometimes they talk like they can calculate what everyone's success is going to be but that's just not how real life works. It kind of works in simpler games like baseball but in a...

The other thing about the "nice" places is they are all getting really crowded. If you can learn to appreciate sagebrush you can have a lot more land for a lot less money and have some actual solitude, not just the type where only 50 cars a day go by your driveway. @Blazin there is a...

Smart move. Living in the mountains is overrated. It's like living close to the beach. Both are nice places to visit but most people don't actually spend enough time doing either to justify the hundreds or thousands of dollars per month it costs to be in those areas rather than just living...

This is true. Wherever you find weeds, there's a reason they are there and it's not because you haven't sprayed enough 2, 4-D on the spot.

Lawns are a cult. One of the biggest wastes of time and water in modern society, not to mention all the chemicals.

Estate tax doesn't kick in until $11.7 Million right now. It is likely to get lower with the democrats in power and also they are talking about getting rid of the stepped up basis so anyone whose parents are planning to leave them a piece of land or real estate you might think about getting...

"Busted Leadership for a Wronger America" is a weird logo.

Oh yeah I forgot about the sanding part. I used mine to sand down a window frame just a couple of weeks ago. Very handy for getting into the nooks and crannies.

It's definitely not something you can't get by without but it's nice because it can saw straight into a flat surface and you can cut pretty precisely in some pretty awkward places. I bought mine to scrape linoleum glue off my subfloor. If you put a scraper blade in it it's pretty effective for...

I've found that 25 lbs of high explosive followed up by daily napalming for a week does the trick.

Probably a dumb idea. It wound up selling for over $1200 too so I wouldn't have paid that regardless. I would love to get my hands on an old ironworker but I can't really justify the cost.

Just like everything bad that has happened in Ukraine, it was Russia's fault.

Fucking Russians. It's actually not that far out there to make a case that if not for the collosal fuckup of Chernobyl, global warming wouldn't even be an issue today.

A lot of shit has to go right for that to play out but based on what SpaceX has done already I wouldn't bet against them.

Man I was kind of interested to see this thread bumped but it sure went to shit fast.

Caught up last night. I'm enjoying it so far. It is a bit depressing. Kind of weird to see Kate Winslet as an almost white trash American since she has that posh British accent in real life. Sort of like watching The Wire and then seeing an interview with Idris Elba.

I guess we're going to find out if Joe is cancelable. There's no doubt that the thought police are coming for him. I would really like to give him some truth serum and ask if he's glad he went to Spotify.

I think Armstead is good, but not a transcendent talent. If they had traded him instead and resigned Buckner I think he would have had a better year than Armstead, but his production would have dropped a lot from 2019 too. The only one on the team that might be transcendent is Bosa but it's...

He wasn't in between Nick Bosa and DeForest Buckner anymore. It's not the same doing it with a rookie and a couple of guys you've never heard of.

Yeah, the niners aren't that different on paper from the superbowl team. Replacing Buckner with Kinlaw is a downgrade so far but hopefully he will continue to develop. Replacing Emmanual Sanders with Brandon Aiyuk is an upgrade. Beyond that the major pieces are similar and if either Jimmy or...