A Busy Week At The Farm

This week was chicken processing week. Not a big deal - right? Well, typically that would be correct.

However, this processing was much different. It all started about 9 weeks ago when the USPO somehow lost our regular shipment of baby chicks. So, when Farmer Bob (a.k.a. Bob's Bitties) replaced them he not only sent the missing batch, but included a second batch as well. That equals twice the number at one time.

No worries. We grew them out as usual. However, as processing day approached we started fretting about how we were going to do all those chickens on the same day. Fortunately, our team rose to the occasion and did a fantastic job. Not only did we set a record for the number of chickens processed in one day (270), but our chickens per hour improved as well.

Needless to say we were very pleased. Then the next day came cut & pack. Again, this went very smooth and gave us confidence in our plans to increase the quantity per batch processed in 2022, but process fewer times per month - netting the same number of chickens per month with fewer processing days.

Then, Thursday we hosted some folks through Understanding Ag, LLC at the request of Dr. Allen Williams. Their objective was to tour several regenerative farms in AL & MS and take back ideas they could use on other farms getting started in regenerative agriculture. They were very impressed with all that we were doing and how our farm was progressing in the regenerative journey.

BTW - the chicken & red meat processing plant was a big hit. They had not seen anything like that before.

We had another FIRST at Nature's Gourmet Farm this week. For the first time the open rate on our weekly newsletter crossed over the 50% mark. While we are very grateful (most farms are below 30% open rate) there is another important consideration. Read on....

Basically google and other email providers track how often an email is opened to guess if it is important or not. If you don't open an email often enough than your inbox may stop showing it altogether. But it has a cumulative effect so if enough other people don't open theirs you might not see it too.

We are trying to walk back this trend and we could really use your help. Even if you don't have time to read the email ( I totally get it - no hurt feelings) would you please open it first and then delete it? Thank you for keeping our small farm from being erased my big tech email filters!

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Beth & I really appreciate your business and thank you for rewarding our hard work with your trust and support. We look forward to seeing you soon.