More Stuff, and yet to Come

This is yet another list, so just take it like it is.

This is in no particular order, and there is no real explanation, nor is it complete, it just some stuff the farm will need to either allocate or build as the case may be to be profitable. It does not mean it all needs to be there right away, or that substitutions can not be made, it is just an incomplete list of stuff that I was thinking would be good for the growth of the farm, and its general profitability, keeping in mind all the various markets, and the sustainability too.

1. Tractor 40hp minimum


2. Tractor 60+hp minimum


3. Hay cutter


4. Flail cutter


5. Hay Baler square


6. Wagons


7. Horse Implements


8. Plows


9. Plug planter


10. Roto tiller


11. Disc


12. Drags


13. Rakes


14. Harnesses


15. Barn


16. Equipment Barn


17. Milk Parlor


18. Milk Processing Plant


19. Vegetable Processing Plant


20. Cold Storage


21. Hard cold storage


22. Dry storage


23. Silos


24. Chicken coop


25. Duck coop


26. Forge


27. Kiln


28. Brick bakery


29. Workshops


30. Water tanks


31. Dump bed stake rack truck (heavy)


32. Pick Up with 5th wheel


33. Animal trailer with 5th wheel and apartment

I forgot most of the list I had already written, so I will have to update this list. I just can't get it to work the way I want it to. It seems that blogger is not the place to try to compose the list, as it is extremely slow, even for my pathetic typing speed. If I get on a roll I leave the type in the dust, and hae to wait for it to catch up so that I am sure it hasn't forgot something. Most of the time it is pretty good about just regular text being typed, but then you try to do something like make a quick correction, of just get going and the interface breaks. Oh well, so sad, I'm sure it is partly my bandwidth. I am listening to the radio at the same time, so that can't be helping the situation.

Well anyways about the farm stuff, it is just a bunch of things, stuff we should consider, prioritize, and plan for, and that's it. It needs more explanation and definitions but there it is, at least some what.

Moving on, I will probably rewrite the entire site in a different program and then post it here, so that I don't have to suffer the aggravation of the interface and bandwidth.

That's it,
James

More notes on Agriculture Project 2008

Well now I am looking at animals.

In previous post I might have talked about animals, but today I am going to just look at how many animals we are going to need in the first three years to make the Farm profitable, while maintaining sustainability. Usually I talk a lot about the why and all that, but for now this is just a list, more will come later.

Animal	Min	Max
Draft Horse	2	4
Med. Draft Horse	4	6
Dairy Cattle	20	110
Beef Cattle	10	80
Alpaca	10	40
Swine	10	40
Sheep	10	80
Goat	10	60
Emu	8	20
Chicken	30	100+
Duck	10	40
Other Foul	10	20

I missed a few and I didn't include cats, rabbits, dogs, or other various animals because they are not specifically part of the breeding stocks, even if they may be breeding. One important animal to note is the Border Collies. We will start with four, three bitches and a sire, but we will add as the herds get larger. We may start with slightly smaller herds and not all the animals presented, but this should be the minimums we are striving for after three years. The objective is to provide sufficient stock for our own needs, surplus for the community, and enough offspring to trade with other communities to keep the stock fresh. We should also look to conservation of the breeds, and helping others get into farming by providing breeding stocks of heirloom animals at reasonable cost. We should also consider work exchange for equity in stocks, but this is going into to much at this point, these concepts will be covered later. For now, this list will be used to determine the base cost of stocking our Farm, and what stocks we need to build over the first three years to realize a profitable return on investment.

More to Come...

James