Key Employees
Custom silage bagger Kevin James runs one of his three baggers himself. The other two are operated by permanent employees. We employ the guys who run...
Quality Is Job One
Dairymen want high-producing cows and high-yielding forages. Their nutritionists want maximum milk production and minimal health problems. Yield isn't...
Resources For Custom Harvesters
Custom harvesters looking to bone up on client relationships, or offer dairy producers the incentive to go with their services, could make use of several...
Salvaging Silage
When you own most of the machines that exist for doing a particular job, you might get more work than you can handle. That was the case last year for...
Satisfying Sidelines
Andy Bensend parlayed some of his early experiences as a custom forage harvester into a successful sideline business. I was the first person in this area...
Service Bags Satisfied Clients
When Mel Pollock started his custom bagging operation 20-plus years ago, he went into it with a win-win mindset for him and for his clients. I'm always...
Silage Covering Solutions
Even with 35 full-time employees, it's a challenge to free up time and people to efficiently cover 15,000 tons of corn silage going into a bunker silo...
Staying In Touch
It used to be that customers would call Jim Theiler when they wanted their hay harvested. Not anymore. I'm usually the one who calls them, says Theiler,...
Summer Vacation
When school lets out for the summer and the kids head to the beach, teacher Mike Stefan starts making hay for more than 20 clients. People always ask...
Waste-High Alfalfa
John Schaendorf gets paid by the ton, so he likes chopping alfalfa at the Muskegon County Wastewater Management System. It yields two or three dry-matter...
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