New around here - greetings from the rust belt!

Welcome. Yeah, I bet you have some good stories.

I heard that selling hay really depletes the soil on a farm. Is that true? That was from the farmer to farmer podcast. They said something like: "if you are looking to buy your neighbors farm, just buy their hay"

 

Okay, I have heard the term "rust belt" many times but I am not sure what it is referring to. Things go rusty quick there?

 

The cars, from road salt.
Ugh

 

Welcome to the forum.

Intr0 thread (Introduce Yourself Here) is on a Sticky in the Everything Else section.

 

I always thought it was a derogatory phrase reflecting the rural poor and rusted out factories. There are quite a few Ohio and PA towns that come to mind.

 

The rust belt is those areas that lost a lot of manufacturing/industry during the 70's and 80's, with an accompanying abandonment of factory buildings, increase in unemployment and poverty. It includes portions of the Northeast and upper Midwest. This coincided with a time of high inflation, which made it even more attractive to move manufacturing to other countries (not China at the time BTW) as well as a decline in the metal and coal industries.

A lot of the areas in the rust belt were in the "steel belt" back in the heyday of manufacturing.

 

Welcome aboard corncob!
I don't farm (wish I had a small farm) but wife's side of family has a pretty large operation, doing dairy, hay, corn.
How much corn do you usually burn? What type of burner you using?
Looking forward to some conversation and pics

 

thanks for the explanation. makes more sense now.