Farm Family Fun at the Feed Mill

The farmer decided to take what's left of the farm family on a night out for fun.  We jumped in the farm truck and headed down the road to the feed mill.  !?  Yes, that's right.  Goin' to a feed mill tour is a fun night for the farm family.  Aren't you jealous?  haha
Hershey Farms Feed Mill was having customer appreciation night and the best part was the free supper and ice cream that they were serving.  Of course farmers are always looking for free meals and the farmer's wife likes a break from cooking!
I have to admit it was slightly   interesting seeing where they make up the feed for our animals.  Farmers are always friendly and greeting each other like they haven't seen one another for years.  Topics that farmers generally talk about consist of the weather, the price of corn, feed prices, crops, ect.  Yeah, totally interesting I know.  Well, here are some pictures so you can see what you missed by not being a farm family!

They started business in 1936 hatching chickens.  By 1955 he started processing his own chicken feed.  Later in 1963 he developed the idea of processing soybeans by steaming and rolling them.  Soyflakes increased milk production in dairy cows and that's when his business started booming.  They now have the capacity to store 1,300,000 bushels of corn and beans on site.  There are two steam cookers and two roller mills.  Three hammer mills meet the grinding needs.  Two pellet mills are used and two mixers.

Jaylon, if you see this post here is a nice picture of what they use John Deere tractors for......a trash can.  haha

Farmers are the only people I know that put their drinks in a cattle watering trough. 

Here's Faith at the feed trough  I mean the food line.

What's a farmer without a cap?  Free for the taking.  Faith got one for Jaylon for a wedding gift.  Wasn't that thoughtful of her?

Free ice cream.

My farmer giving us the grand tour and explaining things to me.

Fun for the farm kids!  Free rides in barrels made into wagons......what farmers don't do for their kids to have a little fun!

 This guy had an ice cream maker on the front wagon.......

 The original chicken on top.....in memory of the original chicken business I guess.

 The farmers wives and kids got goodie bags filled with farm related items.....such as animal shaped note pads, rain gauge, flashlights, pens, tea towel, hot pad, and a miniature fly swat......I think our flies would laugh at me if I came at them with that small of a fly swat.  It is cute though....maybe its for gnats?

        See the tiny fly swatter? 

Hope you enjoyed goin to the feed mill with us!