I feel like some of these farmers will blindly defend Trump's insane policies all the way through their farms being auctioned off for pennies on the dollar, right before they head to town to apply for a job at the local Amazon warehouse.

Has anyone had good luck at in person vs online ag auctions? Online ones seem less feasible and prices usually shoot up too high, probably due to fake bidders but what are your guys' experience with in person ag auctions?

Trying to get:

tractor: 140 hp+

forklift or tractor conversion

10'-12'+ discer

vinesnapper

bedshaper

transplanter

sweet potato harvester

cultivator

So i was curious after seeing the trillions of dollars lost in the value of the stock market over the past few weeks.

Farmers have lost $877,000,000 in the value of soybeans in storage on their farms since early February. Looked at the November contact.

Impressive work by the President.

We have a lovely heritage apple orchard. Normally we just sell the picked apples by the bucket or bag full, but that's caught on with others in the area and now there's a lot of competition, which has driven down prices.

We're considering doing a You Pick, because the closest one is 30 minutes away and only open weekends and we can do it by appointment anytime (lots of wfh people here with very flexible schedules). My insurance agent seems unconcerned and feels any issues would be covered by my regular house/land policy since it would be a short term thing every other year.

But there's a bunch of really stupid people in the world. I have never been to a You Pick place, do they give people ladders? Do the stupid people fall off them? Are pick poles better?

I think I need any and all advice you can offer for a You Pick for apples, even just your experience if you have been to one. The last harvest we had to basically preserve all ourselves bc of the others now selling and I still have tons of that left so I don't want to do that again if I can find a better way to sell some of these apples.