[GH85Carrera]

One of my PCA friends worked in the large corporate HR department for many years and made good money. He retired, and bought a ranch that is 160 acres. He started raising longhorn cattle as a hobby and his goal was to have enough longhorns that his wife would quit naming them so he could take them to market and she not get emotional.

He goes to a lot of farm auctions, and early on saw a square hay baler that was almost free it was so cheap. He bought it and started making square bales on with his fields of grass. Then he realized why it was so cheap. It almost killed him throwing all those bales on the truck, and then up into the hay barn.

He was happy to unload it at an farm auction and went to the round bails. With a wet year like this one he has a full hay barn, and sells the excess.

Of all the "hobbies" in the world, farming is way down near the bottom the list for me. I know very little, (basically nothing) about livestock. He has 5 horses, and many dozens of longhorns now and just loves farm life. His wife keeps all the dogs dumped out there and they have a lot of dogs the (expletives) jerks of the world dump in the country. Only two dogs are inside dogs, the rest have a warm dry place in the barn.