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Understand Grain Sourcing and Storage

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How Chicken feed is made...it might surprise you!

What happens here

Understand the origin and storage of the raw grains. The mill owner explains that while they milk about 100 cows and harvest some grain for them, the majority of the grain for the organic feed operations is sourced externally from various locations. Identify the large metal silos on the property, which are used for storing these grains.

Goal: Learn about where the organic grains come from and how they are stored at the mill.

Tools and materials

  • Grain Silos — Storing bulk organic grains

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all right so George how long do we have this farm hello I'm the fifth generation here on the farm Wow we've been around for a long time now do you harvest all your own grain here or does it come from various sources or I always say we harvest about enough to take care of our cows we milk about a hundred gals here we're a dairy farm too so we milk about under cows so we have always say we grow about enough for them but we have to get feed from other farms around we get local farms as much as we can but everything resources from North America we don't so now it's tough to find organic bead or organic grains I guess around a non-gmo organic types como organic and everything it does get challenging sometimes but we we try to stay ahead of the curve so we keep turn after hand no doubt so the right now there is a huge movement back to the land I'm hearing and chickens are hard to come by and organic feed is even hard to come by do you guys been rocking and rolling with this whole quota thing right we have been very busy for the last couple of months and that's awesome good for business look look forward to happy in the new normal but everybody's worried about the land that nice people ate the girls though absolutely so behind us we have bins these are grain bins and that is a grain truck over there getting tires on it and another grain truck right here tell me so what are you having these bins is it wheat is it a little bit everything laughs we have porn we have roasted soybeans we have sesame meal we have the Philby's coke we offer for soy free and so eats so we have to have a little bit about how it makes us have to have more grain bin cool and grain bins so we're going to go inside and look at the computer system and you guys have a nutritionist that designs your food for you right right so that has all the nutrition that whatever animal might need so today we're getting the broiler paperwork right and we'll talk a little bit for the percentage of protein a lot of people been asking me what do I need to put in the water and do I need electrolytes for my birds the answer is no everything that's why we use the nutritionist so in and use the portrayal products so that everything is in there for your birds we've got a second girl so the feed has electrolytes in it yeah so you don't need to give your birds Gatorade tonight so let's go inside have some fun this is our computer system

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