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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
1 year
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
6 months
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
6 months
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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5 months
#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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3 months
Found a new sprinkler repair crew. They are paid in fruit snacks.
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2 months
Green chile season is in full swing here 🤙🏻
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
@InternetH0F As someone who grows paprika… this is 100% wrong.
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Blake O'Hare
8 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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Blake O'Hare
4 months
Last late silage corn of 24 🤙🏻
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11 months
Small Town, USA 🇺🇸
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Blake O'Hare
3 months
Checked a sprinkler on the way to the hospital while my wife was in labor yesterday. She noticed it was out of line while she was in the middle of a contraction. 3rd kid problems I guess. Happy to announce our little Marley made a successful entrance into the world 7 years after
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Blake O'Hare
7 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
1 year
My son now identifies as a Mennonite.
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1 year
Gonna need scuba gear to change a gear box…. The struggle is REAL
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1 year
👏🏼 Mitch is the best. This was just cool to see.
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Blake O'Hare
4 months
My favorite farming activity is trying a new snake oil from a company… telling them it was applied adjacent to the plot they think it was… letting them brag about it all year and telling them at harvest where it actually was applied.
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1 year
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
1 year
So satisfying. Ice and pumpkins don’t mix well.
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Blake O'Hare
28 days
New rule. If you get more than 25” of rain per years, it’s not “dryland.”
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Blake O'Hare
3 months
Best cotton since 2018. Just need to get it to the finish line. 🤙🏻
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Next time I’ll make sure he has a helmet… dad fail 🤦🏼‍♂️
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Happy 4th, friends!
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Blake O'Hare
6 months
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
2 months
I didn’t grow up hunting… but I’m trying to make up for it now. Really blessed to harvest this dude thanks to some luck and help from good people.
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Blake O'Hare
3 years
Might have slightly overestimated my cover crops ability to hold the ground today….
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Blake O'Hare
8 months
Livin the dream 🤙🏻
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Blake O'Hare
15 days
These people gave 100% this week. We’re down to the last 45 acres if it doesn’t float away this weekend. 🤙🏻
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
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
1 year
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
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I think I’ll do a full blown 🎃 farming and shipping thread before Halloween… but for now, here’s 1/4 of what we’ve got put up before the rain comes.
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Blake O'Hare
9 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
8 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
3 months
Jalapeños are getting after it.
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Blake O'Hare
7 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
7 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
1 year
And we’re off! 🎃
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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
1 year
Headed into the last week of pumpkin harvest. We’re ready to put this one behind us! 🎃
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Blake O'Hare
5 months
There are no mistakes in farming…. Only “test plots”
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
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
That’s all she wrote… pumpkin harvest 2023 is in the books. Onto poverty grass and cattle.
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Not taking any chances.
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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
1 year
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
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20 more days of this 🤙🏻 Sales have been down overall mostly due to heat and economic factors… but we’ve got a good crop thankfully. “Wild Hare Farms” is the name on the sticker at the store.
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Pineapples don’t belong on pizza or pivots.
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
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
1 year
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
1 year
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
8 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
1 year
It hasn’t rained in 29 hours. Is this what a midwest drought feels like?
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Blake O'Hare
6 months
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
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 year
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
1 year
Closer to 90% here. Especially when it’s dry… or really wet. Or winter. Or harvest.
@PlsntVlyFarmer
Degenerative Agriculture Advisor
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I feel attacked and I’m not even young.
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Blake O'Hare
2 years
Pumpkin harvest 🤌🏼
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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
8 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
6 months
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
1 year
Brand new Reinke… alignment fault right out of the gate…
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Blake O'Hare
4 months
What would your rescue recommendation be for this field? It’s already had 4oz status and 32 roundup. Not mine… for a neighbor….
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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
6 months
@scottwestacre Clay, I check X 10 more times a day now just for this update.
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
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
4 months
Happy 4th!
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Cultivator compilation from MN. What works best for your operation?
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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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2 years
Corn crop looking good to excellent in Curry county NM. #CropWatch22
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Blake O'Hare
7 months
This used equipment market is changing fast.
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2.4” of rain was great for the wheat but delayed 🎃 picking. We ride at dawn tomorrow. 🚣🏻‍♀️
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Blake O'Hare
1 year
Sunday football and disking the first harvested pumpkin field. This is luxury.
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4 months
Dynagro 3215 hitting it’s stride 🤙🏻
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3 months
Brother introduction. Poor girl.
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Blake O'Hare
1 month
@LaurenMatter @amazon @rrobertswxlab I had a crop 2 miles from there to the east… it’s gone now
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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
1 year
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
1 year
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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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
6 months
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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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
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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7 months
Today the eclipse taught me that I need new batteries for my welding helmet…
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Blake O'Hare
9 months
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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4 months
Got the garden planted 🤙🏻
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4 months
Just here to give you an annual reminder: Do NOT check crops when it’s over 96 degrees. That is all, thank you for attending my Ted Talk.
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5 months
@CBKimbrell Eastern NM or Haswell Colorado. It’s a toss up.
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7 months
First night of the year with my mistress as the wife says
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2 years
Some beach… somewhere
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6 months
Any day with a full cab is a good day. 🤙🏻 Down to the last few rows of cotton!
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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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7 months
Am I doing this regenerative ag thing right?
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2 years
Tale of the times.
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