Thompson Legacy Farms LLC.
Thomas Thomposn 806-201-7906
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 ages. We moved pipe and sprayed weeds for summer work. In the winter we work on our equipment and prepare everything for the upcoming season. He taught us the safe way to use chemicals and how to operate heavy machinery. My sister and I spent of our teenage summers spraying weeds and learning the importance of hard work. Something always would brake and give up something to learn. Through the many years since 1988, 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 how to 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 just so I would be able 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 and being prepared for weather and disaster is of the upmost importance. Today we use GPS, 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.
The Farm Cycle
305 Acres
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Crop Protection and Conservation
Winter wheat is used as a cover crop that provides the soil a retainer for water. Its planted directly after the harvest of the main crop.
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Spraying can be needed as many as six times a year with a veriaty 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 spray on average 6 times a year depending on the weather and eary freeze.
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 we produce. I have opperated a picker and know how to fix any problem on the spot. I learned how the machinen works and how to keep it working. I've harvested over 4,000 acres with one in 2016. This machine is one of the most intracate 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 trash in the cotton. Also in comparing the picker to the stripper, the cotton stripper is not cappable of stripping tall and thick cotton as the picker will easily harvest any amount of cotton there is in the field.