Thompson Legacy Farms LLC.
Thomas Thomposn 806-201-7906
Our Mission
Our Mission
Thompson Legacy Farms is an extension of our family farms business for over a hundred years. My grandfather, Tommy Adams and grandmother, Donna Adams, raised me to be a farmer. They put us on tractors and trucks at a very early age.
We moved pipe and sprayed weeds for summer work. In the winter we work on our equipment and prepare everything for the upcoming season. Greasing a picker can take a week sometimes. Clean and greased machines seem to be the key to successfully planting a crop on time.
Pappa taught us the safe way to use chemicals and how to spray weeds without killing cotton, My sister and I spent of our teenage summers spraying weeds and learning the importance of hard work.
I have found myself in the fields learning and preparing to farm our land, not only because I'm the only boy in our family, but more because there is no other job on Earth that is more rewarding and satisfying than farming at home for my family. We learned how to irrigate and how to observe the season as well as the importance of how to manage money and sell our products. We were taught how to farm so that you could successfully do it the following year.
Our mission as a farm family will always be to insure that the farm is always managed and productive. Keeping up with EPA standards along with new technology will be the key to success in the future of all farming.
I became a commercial electrician and a commercial plumber with the intention of managing our farm one day. Being liceinsed in both fields allows to work on a pivot the correct and safe way.
I also worked at PCCA as a supervisor where I also learned how the cotton market really works. Every year brings something new to farm. Being prepared for weather and disaster is of the upmost importance.
Today we use GPS to plant the rows up to 0.5 inches. , and have drones spraying our fields. With all of my experience and background, learning that hard work and focus is what truly pays off at the end of the day when farming.
Our mission is to provide the best spraying availability when spraying is impossible for a land machiene to spray.
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Crop Protection and Conservation
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Spraying can be needed as many as six times a year with a variety of chemicals. The average price per acer is $5.00. And at 310 acres, the average overall price for chemical is $15,500.00. We are planning on doing a custom spray for the local area farmers that can not spray because of wet fields. The drone can spray on average 45 acers an hour. This also allows us to spray low lakes for insects. The drone will save in fuel and mechanical issues. It also allows us to spot spray or target small areas, saving money and time. We are going to offer $10.00 per acer for chemical or the customer can provide the chemical. We will set the price at $1,200 per 160 acers. This new way of spraying will soon change the way we apply chemicals to the land. And of course over all, it is friendly to the environment. If you are interested, email us at thompsonlegacyfarmsllc.com.
Our farm is not as big as many farms in the area, however has a high yeild rate due to our water we recieve from the City of Lubbock. The water is very salty and full of sediment and requires alot of attention to clogging. The average output for our pivots is 500 gpm, and 25psi. When the pivot is operated correctly, 4 bales an acre has been made in 2016. The work is extremly dirty and its never fun to spend all day in sewer water, howerver i have done it for many years, and love every day I'm out there.
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Harvest: I have found several machines that would work for a one person operation on farm that is only 310 acres. Under 50K, a used picker would be more benaficial than a stripper because of the high yield. Knowing the mechien and how to fix any problem on the spot is important with a cotton picker. It has several thousand more moving parts than a stripper has. I personaly used one to harvested over 4,000 acres in 2016 pulling over 4.5 bales an acer without clogging and ran smooth. This machine is one of the most intricate inventions I've ever come across. It is designed so that the cotton boll is extracted from the hull without disrupting the hull or the rest of the plant. This process allows the cotton to be harvested with very little to no bark and no trash in the cotton. Also in comparing the picker to the stripper, the cotton stripper is not capable of stripping tall and thick cotton as the picker will.
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Mapping History
Today we have the tools in our hands that can give us the answers to all of our questions about anything you can think up. However, we are currently finding new places on
Earth that push back the time when our ancestors began planting seeds and farming to create a sustainable resorce of food and clothing . But a time when people where much less abundandd, how do we keep up with the needs of so many people on a scale needed today?
One thing we have always done is find an easier way to things, however, in agricultrure, we have a need to create more and faster. For a long time this meant a large work force. This is why in the early days of the industrial age, most people were still in some type of farming. Its nice to have the knowledge to survive in an enviroment without help, however, even with bunkers and guns, there are not enough wild animals go around, not enough trees for fire, and not enough clean water to drink. If you did have a windmill, what keeps thousands of starving people from taking it over. If you had a thousand head of cattle, how do you stop thousands of hungry people?. Remimber, they have guns too. As a farmer and a person that is facinated by ancient history, I can understand this concept and see something in histroy that is brand new. Too many people to sustain. I have wonderful neighbors. Howerver i wouldn't try and take their resorces without excpecting a fight. It doesn't look good unless we go back underground, eat insects, and avoid other humans for many decades. Eventually the people that survive will know when the time is right to began farming and a growing livestock. The danger of other people will drop rappidly as people began to perish. There will always be those who survive on taking by force, and that will always be why we protect our farms. You might not think cotton as something you would run to as you would food or water, but can you emagine freezing because clothes are from animals we kill, and how many animals are left after humans eat everything they can to survive. Cotton is different from other textiles because how much you can grow in a small area. There are many places in the United States alone that would be impossible to survive without proper clothing. My point is that our agriculture culture today is trying to move into the corpraste age. This means large companinesd like Ford are buying families land and hiring farmers to do the work. This is an indirect way for the goverment to take more control, due to the more control the govervenment has on any corprate organization. When a small farmer can make a large crop, he or she can sell that crop at a price that is fractional compaird to a corprate price. It will always be better for everyone, if we have many small farmers, instead of a few corprate. But the government will always fear a lack of control and try to make a back up plandkdd
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Harvest: I have found several machines that would work for a one person operation on farm that is only 310 acres. Under 50K, a used picker would be more benaficial than a stripper because of the high yield. Knowing the mechien and how to fix any problem on the spot is important with a cotton picker. It has several thousand more moving parts than a stripper has. I personaly used one to harvested over 4,000 acres in 2016 pulling over 4.5 bales an acer without clogging and ran smooth. This machine is one of the most intricate inventions I've ever come across. It is designed so that the cotton boll is extracted from the hull without disrupting the hull or the rest of the plant. This process allows the cotton to be harvested with very little to no bark and no trash in the cotton. Also in comparing the picker to the stripper, the cotton stripper is not capable of stripping tall and thick cotton as the picker will.