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On June 16, 2012 in General by spope

We have roads to our pens and around our pens. We wish we didn’t have to have roads on our farm, but we need to be able to get the birds to the pens, and we have to feed the birds and our delivery trucks need to get to the pens to haul the birds to our customers. So we have roads.

For years we received this giant cheese box at Christmas from our local gravel supplier. That’s when I knew we bought a lot of gravel. Year after year we put down more and more gravel and I wondered where does the gravel go? 20 years ago our roads didn’t have a base under them, we had just put gravel on top of the soil. So we redid all the roads here by digging down and putting down a base of 3” gravel, topped off by ¾” gravel. Now we don’t have to add gravel to the roads nearly as often. But we still buy a lot of gravel each year just to maintain the roads.

Because we have such good roads around our pens, we have been able to convince our feed supplier to have the contracted feed delivery trucks directly fill our bulk feeders in our pens.

I asked Art Schumacher, our maintenance manager to drive all the roads and get us an odometer reading and he got back to me to say that we have just over 10 miles of roads on our farms. That’s a lot of road.

 



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