Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Figured. I would check in. I'm gonna be pulling one for the winter months I found out. Long story but the owners in a bind, as of September 7 I will be unhooked from my pot and hooked on to a hopper through April 1. If there's something extenuating or he gets this local stuff covered I'm going straight back to my pot. Atleast I get the "new" hopper a 2012 Stoughton 42' (I think) air ride. They bought it for me and I pulled the #### out of it about a year then went back to flatbeds then back to cattle.

 

I hope so we are on high pressure standby I just want to get to work. All the rain has pushed our harvest back several weeks.

 

No kidding, been a cool summer here too with adequate rainfall. This crop is going to stay green forever. Many believe this will be a record setting crop.

 

We had the best barley crop that many farmers have never seen. Corn isn't going to be that good just didn't get hot enough... Had plenty of water thou!

 

Whenever you guys hear some BPA acres I'd love to know I've got 3,500 acres waitin on me at the house, and I've got 3 weeks from the time it starts to turn till the time I'm walkin tall in it.

 

Well I've got my grain trailer hooked up for the winter. Gonna start fillin contract Monday.

 

The harvest has started here in NE Arkansas. The rain however is coming just right to keep it from going full speed. Had some milo, corn, rice and peas so far with peas being the best paying. Course the lines are growing now which is to be expected. The DOT is weighing every grain wagon it see's which is expected. So all in all I think we are right on course to have a successful harvest.

 

I finally have a little something to update on the Brinkley saga. It seems that the govt. is gonna step in and pay the farmers 75 percent of what Turner Grain owes them. Which I think is a good deal. The truckers however are still S O L which I wish a better outcome for them.