Where is everyone #5

I remember walking in and the drop ceiling was falling down. Never had the guts to take a shower there. I also remember very vividly the entire parking lot wreaking of urine and trash everywhere.

 

Parking lot is surprisingly clean, still smells like piss but most do. No giant potholes so that’s a plus.

 

Dude, go play with your dang rocks some more hehehe Mr. I drive in Montana, you’ve got 5 miles to whip that trailer around and even then you can’t keep it straight!

 

For us it's not BS; however, you apparently found a niche market, in a much different area and with different dynamics than here, that's good. Just to show the contrast though, we don't have to be concerned with "water rights" here. On top of the 550 gallon water tanks that collect the rain water off the roof, we dug out a pond from the swale that runs through the pasture to supplement our crop irrigation.

Our break even cost was $1.86 dz, folks complained about having to pay $3.00, dropped it to $2.50 just to move them, still complained, "I can get eggs at walmart for .86 cents." Ended up supplementing the pig feed with them. If we tried to sell eggs here for $6, we'd be laughed into the next county. The only exception we had, for a short time, was when the bird flu hit and millions of birds were killed, that significantly drove the price of eggs up and we did OK. On top of that, our insurance carrier then wanted us to purchase a "rider" to offset the salmonella/e coli risk. Never mind that almost every small producer has never had a problem with that, just the big boys. Anyway, that was it for the egg selling here.

We've farmed for a loong time, and have found that diversity is the key. Every year (winter) we evaluate the past year to what worked and what didn't, dropping what didn't, along with adding something else that might. In my arena, egg selling was a loser and I stand by that.

Anyhoot, I gotta go, maple season is finally here. That's something that is profitable, least for us anyway...

 

Mornin y'all

 

I'm thinking your spots are the same ones that I like using. The ones in the corner. So you can just straight back out. Then turn. I like to swing around and back in those. It's a simple straight back vs the 90.

 

That's exactly what I'm saying, you have to know your market. When you made the comment in the context you did, I understood it to be a generality. Such as eggs in general are a looser. Not that it was specific to your area. It is neither here nor there now though. Colorado has a cottage food act. We had to have our home kitchen certified. It was a big hassle. Colorado sucked, so we left. Idaho, we do what we want....so no worries there. In order to make it as a small farm, you have to know your market and find a niche.

Edit: all the Californians moving in here sucks, however that is my market. Because they will pay the money that my product is worth and not argue or even bat an eye over it. In the U.S. it is hard to get folks to pay what things are worth in general. Because we have been conditioned to want an abundance of cheap crap. America is all about quantity over quality all day long in ever part of life. We had a csa, so along with the eggs, we had veggies, pork, beef and chicken. It was all free range and quality stuff. Folks could come out whenever they wanted to check out our place. Transperarency is the key in that market. Now we are starting all over this year. Putting up new green houses, high tunnels and new facilities all around. However, we are still going to have to travel 4-5 hours to our target market. Is what it is.

 

I knew you were very young... maybe the youngester around here .. but IMO you look even younger than your age... Has anybody told you that?

 

Nice