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@blakeohare98

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Husband, dad, dirt biker, farmer in eastern NM and West Texas specializing in 🎃

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Joined September 2009
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Blake O'Hare
11 months
2009… 35k acre wheat harvest from NM to CO. 2 9600s, 2 9770s, 1 9650. Just some dumb teenagers who didn’t have a clue what we were doing. 10/10 would recommend one wheat harvest tour in your life.
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Blake O'Hare
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Public service announcement… you can rent a mini excavator for about the same price as a bouncy house. 1/22nd the cost of a Disneyland trip too.
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Blake O'Hare
19 days
My wife is 7 ish months pregnant… complained about her hip hurting tonight and I showed her this and said things could be worse. Unrelated note: does anyone have a couch I could crash on tonight?
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Clay scott
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#88 ’ She’s a trooper. We are planning to move everyone tomorrow as we have done about all we can with this three week limited diet. We bring in feed every morning for her group then watch consumption. She has been on a diet to help keep calf from getting larger. Time will tell
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Blake O'Hare
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#88 ’ reached the masses and stole everyone’s heart. Clay did an exemplary job with the stewardship of this gal, and while it breaks our hearts to see, this is often the reality of agriculture as a whole. Sometimes things happen that are out of our control, but we move on and
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Clay scott
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#88 ’ Our girl passed away
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Blake O'Hare
8 months
@InternetH0F As someone who grows paprika… this is 100% wrong.
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Blake O'Hare
3 months
If I work hard, have a good couple of decades, and find a dumb loan officer, I might just be able to buy this on auction time by 2045
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6 months
Small Town, USA 🇺🇸
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Blake O'Hare
2 months
I will die on this hill…. If a $15 bag of dog food can be waterproof, so should $400 bags of cotton or corn seed.
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Slow release rainfall.
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Blake O'Hare
9 months
My son now identifies as a Mennonite.
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Gonna need scuba gear to change a gear box…. The struggle is REAL
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
👏🏼 Mitch is the best. This was just cool to see.
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Blake O'Hare
8 months
He thinks we’re just farming… in reality, he’s standing in front of his 12k hour inheritance.
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Blake O'Hare
8 months
So satisfying. Ice and pumpkins don’t mix well.
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Blake O'Hare
11 months
Next time I’ll make sure he has a helmet… dad fail 🤦🏼‍♂️
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Blake O'Hare
11 months
Happy 4th, friends!
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Blake O'Hare
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This BigIron 16r rolling cultivator purchase makes a great little strip freshener. No screen. No air. No payments 🤙🏻
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Blake O'Hare
3 months
Livin the dream 🤙🏻
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Blake O'Hare
2 years
Might have slightly overestimated my cover crops ability to hold the ground today….
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Blake O'Hare
10 months
Pushing limits. Redefining the word drought. I don’t ever want to hear the words El Niño ever again. 🌽
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Blake O'Hare
10 months
If the crop is going to burn up, this is where I want to be when it does. Aerial applicator has the next two weeks covered on pumpkins. Hoe hands are gone. My guys have the sprinklers handled. Just out here being a lazy row crop farmer.
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Blake O'Hare
3 months
My wife’s mother in law backed into her car. Please send thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.
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Blake O'Hare
4 months
Lost a rented farm today. 350 acres. 180gpm well. 2 pivots. 15bu wheat aph. Other party paid 30k annually plus 1/4 of crop. Can someone please tell me how that pencils…?
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Blake O'Hare
2 months
I decided a long time ago to never drink in front of my children…. And this is what my 4YO comes home with today… for the record, I’m definitely a steak and scotch guy.
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Blake O'Hare
2 months
John Deere Bluetooth will steal your phone call from 69 nautical miles away but you’re an idiot if you think it’ll work when you want to listen to a podcast in the cab.
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Blake O'Hare
9 months
And we’re off! 🎃
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Blake O'Hare
8 months
Headed into the last week of pumpkin harvest. We’re ready to put this one behind us! 🎃
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Blake O'Hare
2 years
Milo harvest going well! No itch, combine hasn’t broken down once.
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Blake O'Hare
8 months
That’s all she wrote… pumpkin harvest 2023 is in the books. Onto poverty grass and cattle.
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Blake O'Hare
9 months
Dryland corn 2023 was by definition, a bumper crop. By that, I mean it grew to the height of my bumper and died. ☠️
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Headed to the mountains to escape the heat. Thankfully I married a woman who will drive while I play with the kids.
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Blake O'Hare
9 months
Not taking any chances.
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Blake O'Hare
9 months
Need to get some wheat drilled but we had more important things to do today. Year 1 in the books for this guy!
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Blake O'Hare
11 months
Pineapples don’t belong on pizza or pivots.
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Blake O'Hare
9 months
Welcome to my fall circus. Each pumpkin is clipped, cleaned, stickered, sorted by size, taken to the shed, unloaded, loaded onto an OTR truck, sent to a distribution center (or pumpkin patch) and finally to your wife’s pumpkin spice loving hands. From there it’ll be sliced
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Blake O'Hare
2 years
Y’all got anymore of them 2” rains? Replanting cotton in Eastern NM and W Texas
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Blake O'Hare
8 months
1,200 bundles per acre sold at $9 each. If only we could sell more than 3 acres worth per year…
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Blake O'Hare
11 months
Applied 64oz of wind and 48oz of sun. Responding accordingly. Almost looks as bad as the I state corn
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Blake O'Hare
3 months
@RonKrahn #1 would be any fertilizers that aren’t NPK. #2 would be deactivating my wife’s Amazon account
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Blake O'Hare
2 years
Transplanted 60 acres of chile peppers this week. Bigger endeavor than I thought it would be. We’re growing them for a pharmaceutical company that will extract a chemical needed for a cancer drug.
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Blake O'Hare
2 years
@MaxROIFarmer Clearly…. Left side had multi species cover crop, fertilized with fish emulsion, and given verbal encouragement daily. Right side was conventional, factory farmed, and contains high fructose corn syrup.
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Blake O'Hare
3 years
@JoeBiden Bro just get the economy back to where Trump left it and we’ll be good
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Blake O'Hare
1 month
Note to self: Do NOT use the restroom after loading jalapeño seed. Should have used gloves…. Maybe this is why I have 3 kids.
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
It hasn’t rained in 29 hours. Is this what a midwest drought feels like?
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Blake O'Hare
9 months
0% chance of any volunteer corn. Now on to the poverty grass. Follow me for more non profit farming tips.
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Blake O'Hare
2 years
Pumpkin harvest 🤌🏼
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Blake O'Hare
10 months
Closer to 90% here. Especially when it’s dry… or really wet. Or winter. Or harvest.
@PlsntVlyFarmer
Degenerative Agriculture Advisor
10 months
I feel attacked and I’m not even young.
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Blake O'Hare
2 years
Yesterday one of my truck drivers was proud that he finished making his first batch of moonshine… he still hasn’t answered my calls or texts today.
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Blake O'Hare
3 months
When your pregnant wife says she’s not feeling good, DO NOT suggest more vitamin D… speaking from a near death experience.
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Blake O'Hare
1 month
A credit score is not indicative of your ability to pay back a lender, but rather your ability to make a lender money. What a scam….
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Blake O'Hare
7 months
Brand new Reinke… alignment fault right out of the gate…
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Had a verbal and text message agreement for 10k ton of sorghum silage. I planted a lower yielding variety specific for this buyer and I got the call this morning that the agreement was terminated since it’s rained so much and feed will be available without issue.
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Blake O'Hare
19 days
@scottwestacre Clay, I check X 10 more times a day now just for this update.
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Blake O'Hare
8 months
I’ve had this on my mind for a few years… I’ll try to flesh it out in a comprehensible form. After harvest every single year, I have a mental dump. The intensity on the farm plummets even though lots office work has to be done, repairs, shop work etc. It’s like my primal DNA
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Blake O'Hare
10 months
Cultivator compilation from MN. What works best for your operation?
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Blake O'Hare
2 years
Corn crop looking good to excellent in Curry county NM. #CropWatch22
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Peppers are beat up… probably 35-50% loss but this rye was 3’ tall before the hail. Would have been 100% loss without it.
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Blake O'Hare
2 months
This used equipment market is changing fast.
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Blake O'Hare
9 months
Sunday football and disking the first harvested pumpkin field. This is luxury.
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Blake O'Hare
2 years
Late May replant. Dynagrow 3109 playing catch-up.
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Blake O'Hare
2 years
Glad I never gave up on this. Half circle pumpkins got the preferential treatment while the cotton was abused. 3gpa and very little rain. 🤟🏻
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Blake O'Hare
10 months
Need… more… water… pumpkins are making fruit now. It’s been hot and windy. Very spooky. Wells have dropped off 30% from a month ago.
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Blake O'Hare
7 months
12r 30” buffalo for sale… 15k. Good rig, just need a 16r. If you help sell it, I’ll send you some green chile.
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Storm chaser crew just showed up to the field I’m planting. Hopefully that’s a good sign
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Blake O'Hare
22 days
Could use a little advice… looking at getting a 4038. 1500-2k hour range. Anything I should look for or stay away from in particular other than exact apply? Coming from the Case world.
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Blake O'Hare
10 months
It’s one thing to have a heart breaking, crop destroying hail. It happens, you move on knowing you got the short end of the stick. This year has been just as destructive, but it’s been spread out over months of triple digit heat, wind, and very little rain except for the one that
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Blake O'Hare
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The wife and I were honored to be selected as finalist @OFA_NOYF program. Got to take some awesome Washington agricultural tours and meet some of the best people I’ve ever come across. To top it all off, got to meet a couple ag twitter superstars @Qconnealy19 & @dfaber84
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Usually I’m neck deep in work this time of year… but in the end you’ll never remember the work accomplished on special occasions, but you’ll always regret missing them. Happy Mother’s Day!
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2 months
Today the eclipse taught me that I need new batteries for my welding helmet…
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2 months
First night of the year with my mistress as the wife says
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1 year
Some beach… somewhere
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1 year
Tale of the times.
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1 year
Just a friendly reminder… do NOT under any circumstances check your crops when it’s over 96 degrees outside.
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2 months
Am I doing this regenerative ag thing right?
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8 months
Calabasa caravan. 🎃 last 15 boxes of the year delivered by yours truly. If you live around Canyon, TX visit Leonard pumpkin patch. Missed our goal of 500 loads, but we’re happy with what we accomplished.
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2 months
@scottwestacre No that’s me leaving Olive Garden
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2 years
Head crop consultant says yield potential sucks.
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Any day with a full cab is a good day. 🤙🏻 Down to the last few rows of cotton!
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Went 40 degrees before I found it… pressure sensor hasn’t been working all that great… I’ll take it as a win. All 10 towers are still standing.
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Blake O'Hare
8 months
Load of ugly Cinderella pumpkins headed for downtown Dallas
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Blake O'Hare
3 months
Working pumpkin ground for 24. Can you find the hidden La Niña message? 🤣
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Blake O'Hare
3 months
Fired up some pivots today to pre-water cotton ground…. There’s just something unsettling about 9% interest on a crop that doesn’t pay back till next winter.
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3 years
Curry County, NM cotton.
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Rainfall index insurance… haygrazer planted into tickle grass. I won’t blame anyone for taking advantage of a program to keep the bills paid, but this has gotten out of hand. The cost of land has been unrealistically inflated due to undeserved payments.
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Blake O'Hare
2 years
DG3385 with enough pix to turn an NBA player into a jockey
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Blake O'Hare
3 months
@zacho_16 Water-> toothpaste—> more water
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Blake O'Hare
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@deere_84 We all have to learn the hard way
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Blake O'Hare
2 months
I robbed my kid’s piggy bank for their money eggs. Follow me for more expert financial advice.
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Would rather be a broke farmer than a rich guy with an office any day.
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Blake O'Hare
2 years
@rachel_veenstra @steveconaway1 I’m falling for you faster than a Pioneer corn field.
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
This is just rude…
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Blake O'Hare
3 months
Local dairyman called today asking if I knew of anyone who needed some triticale silage he’s growing… tough times in this neck of the woods
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Blake O'Hare
11 months
New pivot day 🎉 🎈
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Full cab today 🥸
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Rainfall totals anywhere from 1.5”-3” from last night’s storm. Lots of hail. Planters might roll next week 🤌🏼
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
@WxZachary @QTweather Clovis resident here: I’m doing tours for all chasers. Includes 3 meals at local eateries, scenic tour of historic downtown, trip to see a dairy, and dessert at Dairy Queen all for the low price of $9,850 per person.
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Happy Valentine’s Day lol
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