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Counting feed
One of the daily chores that Steve performs is counting the feed in his 4 giant feed bins. He could do it by having digital scales installed under the bins, but that costs $2,000 per bin - money that could be used for many other things, from a tractor to college tuition. So, instead, every afternoon, he takes a home-made 12 foot shovel, climbs to the top of each bin to level off the feed in each one using the shovel, and then measures the amount remaining. It's a necessary task, to stay current and order new feed to be delivered just-in-time by Tyson, so that the chickens never go hungry. Like every business - no matter how complicated - the formula for success boils down to some basics. For chicken farming, the basics are: 1. you keep them dry and safe, 2. you water and feed them regularly, and 3. you collect all of the eggs you can while breaking as few as possible doing it. As his Tyson manager first dryly told him "It ain't rocket science," but it still involves 100 little details every week, that separate the best farmers from the rest.
Counting feed
One of the daily chores that Steve performs is counting the feed in his 4 giant feed bins. He could do it by having digital scales installed under the bins, but that costs $2,000 per bin - money that could be used for many other things, from a tractor to college tuition. So, instead, every afternoon, he takes a home-made 12 foot shovel, climbs to the top of each bin to level off the feed in each one using the shovel, and then measures the amount remaining. It's a necessary task, to stay current and order new feed to be delivered just-in-time by Tyson, so that the chickens never go hungry. Like every business - no matter how complicated - the formula for success boils down to some basics. For chicken farming, the basics are: 1. you keep them dry and safe, 2. you water and feed them regularly, and 3. you collect all of the eggs you can while breaking as few as possible doing it. As his Tyson manager first dryly told him "It ain't rocket science," but it still involves 100 little details every week, that separate the best farmers from the rest.