It is. In addition to the hay sales there is the beef side to. 2015 I left JEP, Cummins local engine manufacturing plant after being there for 8 years. When I auctioned off the farm the first time in 2006 I told myself I was done and went to the plant. 4 months later I was buying equipment again and never missed a season doing custom work. 2000 I took over the farm after dad passed. At that time it was a 60 cow dairy. 3 years later due to health, labor , and the all important money issues I restructured and tried the custom work while leasing out the cows and raising the heifers. Needed more time to grow and money was tight so instead of constantly fighting family said *&^% it and auctioned off the cows and equipment. 2015 is when I started the hay portion of the business when I started to take back the farm ground as it became available again. By 2020I only had a couple custom customers left that I still do to this day and have 280 acres that we farm. all hay or forage related crop.You have an impressive operation!!! Is this your full time job? Most of the people that I've met have to work to afford their farms.
These are just from this week. Told my wife that loosing 95% of your floor space in the first hour half is not good and had me concerned about the rest of the day. That black case on right, not unusual to have as few as 5 and most I've seen is 22 one day. Floor space is valuable. Not bragging but they have ranked me number 2 for loading behind the guy that been there for almost 20 years. Covering vacations the drivers ask the supervisor if they can keep me loading their trucks. One driver of over 30 years ranked me top 5. Must be stacking all those square bales had a benefit. I hate having to go in and fix somebody's truck at the end of the day. All the gaps and wasted space. I've unloaded trucks before and started over when time just to make it all fit.That's quite an adventure!!!! I drove for UPS back in the late 80's and it was all hustle, all the time!!!! A good loader sure did make a difference.
I feel sorry for the drivers today. When I was driving, computer monitors where the heaviest things we had to deal with. A bad day would be delivering two 17 inch monitors!!!! Now, just to my place, we get cases of dog food delivered, plus all sorts of bulk canned food!!! I can't imagine how many heavy boxes they have to deliver in a day.
Do you have any pictures of you unloading them, how they are stacked? I'm mostly curious in how you store them. I need to build a hay barn at my place. The entire process of getting hay to the farm where it can be used, and how it's stored is something new to me.
Going from Cummins to UPS and continued building the business around a part time job would have been a better way of doing it. But you don't know what you don't know.