Luckyman - 11/20/2024 18:29

By running the most non NAT approved operation. After a couple rain events and a little NAT reading I've learned most everything I own or do is not approved by most NAT opinions.
I've owned a Case IH 330 for about 11 years. Even red Kool Aid drinkers hate them.
My only other red tillage piece is a 730B ripper, it has the wrong spacing.
I own Deere 980 and 960 field cultivators. NAT may be right about those.
I don't have a Kinze planter or grain cart, and my cart unloads on the left.
I've never owned a legacy or flagship combine.
My pickup is a GM product.
We bought the place we live when we first got married and re did a drafty old farmhouse instead of throwing a match in it because that's all we could afford to do.
We borrowed money to buy machinery sometimes.
We've never been able to save enough cash to buy the 500 acres next door.
I own three owl cage tractors, including the most hated of all, a 4840 and a 4755 MFWD that can't turn in 40 acres. Some may approve of the 4440 but then it will never be a 1086. thank God.
We live and fam in the most NAT hated of all the hated I states, even though a lot of what we farm is timber soil and clay that non I staters don't know exist here.
I am now well into the fourth quarter of my farming life and need to retire instead of doing the only thing I ever wanted to do.
I did post a pic on here once of my future wife and I from 40+ years ago and she seemed to be NAT approved, but I already knew I had that going for me.
I could go on but would like someone else to at least have an outside chance to top me.
After all that like Eddie Montgomery sang, " I'm a lucky, lucky man."