Need a little help with AG farms.....

[hoss]

im planning a display and i have a good idea but i need to know some things. i have ben putting this off for a while now...

I was wondering if someone could give me an idea of what goes on in a feed lot because im not gonna lie i dont know how one works mostly cause we dont have many in ky.

also im making this a 4x8 sheet of plywood so i am running into a delima im not so sure how many acres one 4x8 sheet would be i was thinkin about 550

i was thinkin 200 hay 300 corn and 35 acre feedlot the rest would be for my unoccupied space barns, fence rows, ect.. any guesses the farm was passed down and has downsized alot the farm also does custom hay cutting and some custom combining not much though.

heres my line up

equip..
-2 j&m gravity wagons
-2 h&s forage wagons
-nh 42 ft cultivator
-glencoe soil saver
-case disk
-kinze 16r 3600 twin line
-ih forage feeder wagon
-ih forage harvestor pull type
-hesston discbine
-jd bar rake
-jd roadside bushog
-1 cih round baler

self propelled equip
-7088 cih combine w/ 8r corn head
-nh self propelled windrower

tractor line up
-ih 3388 2+2
-ih 4366 w/duals
-nh 8030 w/duals
-case 1270
-nh t7060 need to know if i should keep?

toy line up
-farmall 560 puller
-ih 1086 puller
-ford f250 p-stroke w/chrome stack and big lift

trucks and trailers
-pete 379 with 60 in sleeper w/ chrome stacks w/ dual whips w/ goose neck ball and aluminium headache rack
-43 foot dual axle flatbed
-goose neck trailer


any thing you think i can get rid of please let me know i know some thing needs to change or be taken outta the picture...

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[John K.]

About feedlots, basically, the cows are there to be fattened. My relatives who farm feed a mix of ground hay, silage, and corn. You'll need space for all the feed. You'll need a loader tractor and a feed mixer for feeding. Sometimes the feed bunks are along the outside the pens, and you'd drive down a strip between the pens to feed. Others might have feed bunks inside the pens. That's what I know. ;D

[hoss]

yea one of the tractors will probly be traded or have a loader put on i have 2 silage pits that are conected and am goin to make a feed bunk to run along the fence.. and i am goin to have a feed wagon and a pull behind sprayer added just got to get the money....

[anthony]

Hi,

biggest thing I learned about building a display is build what you know. Questions are just fine and dandy but if you're building something you don't know and ask alot of questions it can get anoying on this end. That is one thing about taking a farm display layout to a show for being judged is about...........knowledge of the display, what's going on and what repersents. So maybe try a different appraoch with what you know more about.

To answer your other question if you're asking about how many acres 4x8 would be scaled down to 1:64th scale, you wouldn't even have an acre I beleive........but dont qoute me. You can just throw any number out there for any size display. My 4ftx2ft display could be a 300 million acre farm if I had the story line convincing enough and the right size machinery in the yard.

[jwaldrip]

Mar 10, 2010 20:58:45 GMT -5 @anthony said:

To answer your other question if you're asking about how many acres 4x8 would be scaled down to 1:64th scale, you wouldn't even have an acre I beleive........but dont qoute me.

Aa 4x8 sheet is actually 3 acres

[Chris Taylor]

your combine, field cultivator, planter and swather are over sized for the amount of acres you have. 300 tillable you can get by with a 4 row planter and a 4r combine. I see you are red so I have no idea what model numbers there are but you are way over sized. think small and tiny as thats what you need for 300 acres of tillable land.

[hoss]

anthony--- i see what you mean i thought about a dairy but i really dont have the time to make the dairy display that i want nor do i have the space so i figured a feedlot would be better.. but i get where your coming from... i was just wondering how many acres some of you guys based your farms off of its no big deal..thanks anyways

chris taylor--- i know my equipment is a little big but this plan will change probably 5 times before i get around to building it.. i want to make another 2 4x8 sheet like i did last year i will try to get some pics of my previous farmscape