Daren Sanders

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@AMillershaski Years ago we went to Germany in late July. They were cutting flax. It was really coarse looking. They had vertical sickles to but there wat through the field. Where is your market for canola?

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@SiekerSales @iamyourfarmer There are quite a few Gleaners in Ottawa County. We have Lott Implement and LDI in Salina. Both sell and service them. Had a L2 that cured me on Gleaners. Easy to work on just got tired of working on it.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@BrianBledsoe Have you seen any of the videos of the winds in Salina when the storm hit? 113 mph winds. The Cargill terminal West of Salina finally got power last night. Wheat harvest has been going on in that area and South.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@JerodMcDaniel What is your soil type? Sandy vs Clay? We graze in the fall and early winter. Typically cows come off middle of January. All of the good is gone by then. We graze every acre. This year they could have stayed on till May as no rain. Some years it would be a disaster.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@SolickSeeds I would guess that their A/R has some serious delinquencies and corporate or their lender is pushing them to get current. They might be hitting the top of their line due to the higher fertilizer costs. We all know Ag businesses that are no longer because their A/R killed them.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@maxarmstrong I can remember going to a Harvestore demonstration at a cattle feeder North of us about 30 miles. He had two new Harvestores and the automated feeding system. This was 1977-78ish. I was 10 years old. Guy was bankrupt by the early 80’s. Lived a tough life until he passed.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@landon707 What does the aspirator look like? Have you taken it out and cleaned it?

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@HTAgronomy https://t.co/pdrdITulDV

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@HTAgronomy You can get them higher than that. That’s why they now offer 8-9 year financing. Crazy high monthly payments. Then add the unpaid balance of the trade in into the new loan and it really helps their financial situation.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@cowbroker President Jimmy Carter did the same thing in 1978. We all know how that turned out for the American cattle industry.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@CBKimbrell @dirtcheapbanks Yes they do. My dad was at the end of his farming career but it still hurt him to have to sell the quarter my great grandparents homesteaded. My brother was able to buy it back this winter. 40 years since we last had cattle on it.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@CBKimbrell @dirtcheapbanks I remember going with my dad to sell our droughty wheat crop in 1982 and then to the bank with the check. It didn't even cover the interest on the loan. I can remember the spot where my brother and I were plowing when my mother came to the field to let us know it was over.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@PanhandleFlash7 My sister has it. She cannot any pork products. Can still eat beef.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@ClaySchaack @CBKimbrell Here the wage for a SA is around $20/hr. Plus you have to provide housing and a vehicle. If you offered locals that wage and housing and vehicle you might get some. But they don’t. People that I know that have used SA workers it has been hit and miss on quality.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@ZP871 @jamesdecker2006 If FSA orders the appraisal they pay for the appraisal. If the lender orders one the borrower has to pay.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@lrofarmer @jasonmauck1 Triticale here on the East side of Ottawa Co is blue and burning up. No moisture. Fields have been stripped clean by the relentless wind. Even the cow lots are bare dirt. The manure has blown off. Never seen it like this.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@josh_sayler @5150Farms You have to watch for fake filters on Amazon. Can buy the Donaldson filters from authorized online dealers.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@viejonesgringon @RCEY28 @janninereid1 Flipped a dirt bike in College. Broke C5/C6. Wore a Halo for three months. Got rid of four wheeler and went to sxs years ago.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@SiekerSales @roesch_scott I remember some of those 4430-40, 1086 tractors were their main tractors well into the 1990’s. Until freedom to farm we were poor winter wheat farmers in this area. Now we get to farm all the poverty crops.

[Daren Sanders @kstate90]

@SiekerSales @roesch_scott I was born in 1967. I can remember living through the boom years in the 1970’s watching all the neighbors buying their new 4430’s and 4440’s. Everyone was farming with tractors that were under 15 years old. People still had the old 1940-50’s tractors also.