Today was just "one of those days" on the farm, where nothing seems to go quite right. Dad and I had to get up early to load up meat to deliver to the other side of Richmond- almost 400 pounds for a new group we started selling to on the Eastern Shore. I was worried about traffic on routes 64 and 288 since it's the day before Thanksgiving, but luckily traffic wasn't too bad. Dad was off of the farm all day taking pigs to Harrisonburg to our federally inspected plant for them to be processed, and then around doing other errands that kept him away. That always makes it hard when I'm off the farm for almost 4 hours delivering meat and Dad is away as well- that means everything is left for my brother to do.
Matt had some problems on the farm that he had to deal with on the farm today that made it so tough. The local co-op was delivering some local soybean meal, since soybean meal is the only thing we can't grow for our pigs since we can't process it, and they had some major problems with their feed truck. Matt had to help them fix their truck while it was sitting on the farm. A normal 20 minute stop took almost 3 hours out of his day. Then, when he was grinding and mixing feed up for our pigs the mixer broke! He almost had it fixed when it got dark and he had to stop since he couldn't see what he was doing.
Hopefully tomorrow will be a much more productive day for us!
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