Mike Dickinson

father, husband, retired registered nurse and southwest Iowa farmer that lives in rural Logan, IA 🌽 🐄 🐓

[Mike Dickinson @MikeFamilyFarm]

First trip to Costco to buy a rotisserie chicken that came right off my farm the checkout counter of the worlds second largest retailer. And they are so good! 🐓🐓

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@MaxROIFarmer Worked great for me last year. Did a fair amount again this year. Finding fewer reasons to go back to tillage on coc.

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@DamianPMason Exactly. Spot on.

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@Amo54ksu I know. Ha. I don’t have any idea what caused it but looked normal yesterday and happened right when they started a new bag. Not fun.

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@5150Farms Live poor….Die rich!

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@CBKimbrell I raise these birds. Coscto sells over 100 million of them a year. You maybe don’t serve rotisserie chicken on holidays. But no better value in protein the rest of the days out of the year!

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@KellyGarrett75 I spent an hour with a cuttoff wheel and sawzall this mrning freeing one from a hay feeder so I share your frustration!

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@FarmrHuntr Fall early seeding regardless if drill, broadcast etc. always seems disappointing. I get it done before the snow flies and it all looks about the same come spring. In SWIA here.

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@FarmrHuntr @UnverferthMfg 48 bu. Technically. Inhafe had some issues with the frame on the unverferth harrow though so I don’t fill it that full on our rough farms (most of them).

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@FarmrHuntr @UnverferthMfg This spring. Fall rye rate was 1bu-acre with same style seeder.

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@MaxROIFarmer Steering radius. I don’t want to have to have an acre headland to turn around in. Bigger cab with electric shifting tranny like 8400 JD of similar era.

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@CBKimbrell @JerodMcDaniel People can have issues with the hog and poultry contract growers all they want. I do as well. I also know of almost none that regret going down that path. Contract feeding chickens has been the best investment my farm has made.

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@DDFalpha @sstheatres Saw it last week! Amazing show!

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@embdenhaymaker Good attitude. The biggest thing statistically is to not be alone and don’t enter a bin you can’t touch the floor on. I don’t consider the sweep a danger. As more large bins show up on farms the more deaths there will be. Happening way too often. Need that attitude of safety. IMO

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@CBKimbrell The deposit for our reception was $300. And when we didn’t burn the church hall down they gave it back to us!

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@josh_knauss @Qconnealy19 If it was going to corn, I’d kill it pretty quick. Full rate of gly. Ideally warm day before, of, and day after app. Plant when its brown. Probably 2 weeks after termination.

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@NicoleStecklein We had a blizzard yesterday with several inches of snow the color of a rusty snow cone. 😬

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@CBKimbrell @KaceyAukema @Benefitsguynick You can’t do that. Its being handled appropriately. The manner in which commercial poultry is raised you are nearly guaranteed to spread the disease. You will be disposing of birds with active infections. There will have to be feed trucks, live haul trucks, service techs.