Check out this modified Farmall B used in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for ginseng farming. I haven't watched the full video yet, but this neat modification caught my eye.
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Modified Wide Front B for Ginseng Farming
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Re: Modified Wide Front B for Ginseng Farming
I may be educated by reality TV but I thought ginseng was a thing collected from the wild bringing big bucks. Would commercial farming push the price down?
Cool to see an older tractor used as a primary source of income workhorse.
It looks like it has little orchard tractor shrouds thinking worked in.
Very cool operation and a hell of a lot of work.
We have a garden center and vegetable roadside market here where the owner uses a Super AV exclusively for cultivating.
Thank you for sharing this video, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Cool to see an older tractor used as a primary source of income workhorse.
It looks like it has little orchard tractor shrouds thinking worked in.
Very cool operation and a hell of a lot of work.
We have a garden center and vegetable roadside market here where the owner uses a Super AV exclusively for cultivating.
Thank you for sharing this video, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Re: Modified Wide Front B for Ginseng Farming
Yes and yes. Wild, dug ginseng (sang) commands the highest price. Commercially grown sells for far less. We have a commercial, woods grown, operation here near us. I think it’s all hocus pocus, myself.
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Re: Modified Wide Front B for Ginseng Farming
Watching the snowmobile gathering at the end of the clip I think I saw Barnyards Michigan cousin what’d he say? “I kinda stepped it up this year and have 72 snowmobiles!”
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Re: Modified Wide Front B for Ginseng Farming
A coworker shared the video with me. She grew up in that area and said she knows the family. Her father made the root washing rig 40 years ago and it looks like it is still serving just fine.
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Re: Modified Wide Front B for Ginseng Farming
I like how they use a potato digger for this too.
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Re: Modified Wide Front B for Ginseng Farming
Here in eastern Mo. the area used to be more wooded than it is now, and a man bought about 20 acres next to me that had a burned mobile home on it and over the years paid for the place by harvesting ginseng. Some of it was here naturally, and some of it he planted, even transplanted some from other areas.
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Re: Modified Wide Front B for Ginseng Farming
I planted ginseng seed on the acreage several years ago. Have shaded north facing slopes, supposedly good for growing the plant.
Should check the areas where I planted it. Perhaps there is some money in the ground.
I looked up selling ginseng in Missouri. Appears that you have to package it up, then mail/ship to a buyer.
Any way, that was an interesting video.
Should check the areas where I planted it. Perhaps there is some money in the ground.
I looked up selling ginseng in Missouri. Appears that you have to package it up, then mail/ship to a buyer.
Any way, that was an interesting video.
I have an excuse. CRS.
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