Category Archives: #Plant11

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  Dog Days of Summer are Here

  Posted on July 1, 2011 by Pam Haley in #Plant11, Agvocate, Cattle, family, Farm, farm photos, livestock care

  Well it has been a long time since we last posted on here but there has been a lot going on and not much time to relax and take it easy.  So let me up date you on what has been happening, we have almost finished planting everything it was a rough year and there […]

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  Farm week in pictures 5/21/2011

  Posted on May 21, 2011 by Mike Haley in #Plant11, farm photos

    It was another busy week around the farm waiting for the rains to pass.  We were not able to get anything planted this week, but the week was full of lots of excitement.  Here are a few pictures from this week.    Just a few pictures from after my livestock trailor was rear ended. […]

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  Official County Rain Gauge

  Posted on April 30, 2011 by Mike Haley in #Plant11, Farm

    I sold a load of hay this morning at the local hay auction in Wooster and noticed this official Wayne County rain gauge.  I was a little confused as Mr. Acker must have emptied it a week back because we currently have 6 1/4 inches of rain so far this month.  This is the […]

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  Trading Twitter

  Posted on March 8, 2011 by Mike Haley in #Plant11, Farm

  Well to my surprise CNBC has also been following this recent trend among traders and ran a story this morning about how traders and market analyst have been able to harness the power of Twitter in their trades everyday

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  State of my wheat fields

  Posted on February 21, 2011 by Mike Haley in #Plant11, Farm

  After several days of sunshine I can finally see our winter wheat fields for the first time since January 7th!  As you can see from the picture below it is stooled (bushed) out nicely and still has good color. Typically wheat is not a crop that we plant on our farm to produce a profit […]

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  Listen to me on CNBC!

  Posted on February 17, 2011 by Mike Haley in #Plant11, Farm

  UPDATE! Watch the video! Today I received a phone call from a reporter for CNBC Fast Money asking me how the current crop and fertilizer prices will impact my crop planting decisions for 2011.  We had a great discussion and she invited me to call into the show this afternoon at 5 EST to continue discussing!

  Post Tagged with #plant11, CNBC, corn, fertilizer prices, hay, planting intentions, soybeans, wheat
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