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Ag Business

September 12, 2016

Siefring Farms Love nice juicy sauhjhjuffufufufyufyufyufyufyuffsage and ribs? Well that is what Matt’s Family farm and trucking is aiming for with every pig sold. The Farm consists of cows, 1,400, and 2,000 pigs and 1 dog. Siefring Farms mission statement: We strive to deliver the highest quality pork to consumers around the world and to be hormone free. We offer special orders of pigs, where we haul your specific pig to the butcher where they process the pig and package. We breed our own pigs from the finest sals in the area and nurture our pigs to be full sized. Being a family oriented farm all our workers are family or closely related. Our family farm has been in the Siefring name for 103 years now and is continuing to grow as my father has taken over and I am trying to take over. Starting out the farm was just grain farm and then it slowly turned into the swine farm it has become today. We are up to 275 acres of farmland. We are in the ag production sector and I am in partnership with my father. Our product of raising pork to sell and also to butcher for consumers to buy in the stores of America. People will buy our product because people buy pork all the time in stores so by selling top grade pork they will want Siefring Pork in high demand. Our product is pigs and we are in charge of them from birth to when they are transferred to our nursery and then to our finisher barns. Then When they are ready for sale my father or I will haul the spoken for pigs to the butcher. The rest will be sold to a mass processing plant to be sold to the stores and enjoy by the consume

My legal plans for my farm are to have multiple coverages on my farm. We will have Great American insurance provide liability, motor, tornado, earthquake, flood, lightning and ballooning insurances. Animals getting hit, or sick from disease or possible farm injuries to workers are many of my legal concerns. My company will thrive in our area of business because many people in our area are pork lovers and have pork at least 4 times a week and is a thriving industry. Also there is a never ending need of pigs in the big processing plants out in Pennsylvania and Indiana. My business is easily accessed off Mercer Darke county Road. There is a nice gravel lane leading to a open circle with our hog barns in the middle. It is a good location for barns because there is a mile and a half distance between our barns and the next barn of pigs of a different source. So that means handling or trying to control diseases will be easier. My business regulations are that the animals must be kept taken care of and not break the rules for my pigs and cows. Also responsible for the management of cows and pigs to liability of transporting them to and from the farms and processing plants. The Capital needed to start my farming business is quite a lot. The farmland costs roughly on average 11,000 dollars per acre- 350*11,000= $3,850,000 Also the cost of building the pigs and cows barns will be roughly $500,000. Also the cost of seeds and equipment for planting and harvesting. Also the feed the pigs and cows eat will be roughly $45,000. My 5 year plan of income will be off selling my pigs and cows. My pigs will roughly bring in $28,844,400 per rotation of pigs. My cows will bring in roughly 211,425,200. The cost of feeding my cows throughout the raising of them will be roughly 1 million. So between the two I will pull in 240,269,600. Also my crops will pull in a bunch of money- $600,000. My transportation cost will depend on the price of fuel. The Burkettsville bank will give me a loan of 1 million dollars to get started. I will pay them back off the profits I make off my cows and pigs. Also I will buy our family farm off my father. I will pay this back monthly for the next 20 years. Also My wife will help invest in the business and I will pay her back with unconditional love and care. My competitors will be the surrounding farmers that raise and sell their animals to people for butcher. My competitors will have benefits and better products by having a smaller amount of animals to better be able to raise each and every animal with a good eye. I won´t have the benefit of being able to keep an eye on every single pig. They target the people who will look to support a smaller farms or to not support my big business. My farm will be ran on a loose system of operations. Not everyday will go in the same order but the tasks at hand will be roughly similar. The day will start with me waking up and getting on the proper clothing for the weather, tasks at hand, and the amount of work needing to be done. I will then write out any orders of business that is necessary or need taken care of ( bills, checks, faxing information, load receipts, and update farm books). Then I will head outside and feed the dog and make sure there is water for her. After that I will feed the cows. This consists of flipping the correct switches to make sure that the grain, silage and conveyor are working. This task is very tricky because you need to try to give the correct ratio of corn to silage for the cows. Then you should shut down the conveyor and walk through the cows checking for sick or abnormal behavior from the cows. Also every 2 days the bedding for the cows needs to be added. This is done by using the skid loader to pick up big bales of straw and spread the straw throughout the pen. Once that is done I will walk to the nursery and farrow barns. When you step in the door you put on a fresh overalls to keep sanitary. Also you put the barns pair of boots and step in the disinfectant tub. And you will walk to the control panel and record the high/ low temperatures in each side of the barn and also what the temperature was set at. Also in the nursery you must record the gallons of water. Once that is done you walk slowly through the pens and check for pigs not eating or possibly dead pigs. If a dead pig does occur you must record what pen and why you suspect the pig passed away. Once your done with that if the pigs are sick you will change or refill the tub of medicine. If the pigs are sick you must go back inside and shower and put new clothes on and then head on over the pig complex. You will pretty much repeat the processes that were done with the nursery and farrowing barns. Once you get that done anything that needs maintenance or care. Also during harvest and planting seasons this is when I would begin to farm and harvest. I will walk back through the pigs and cows again later at night just checking for any big changes and make sure everything is up to snuff. The materials needed for most days are clothing, boots, a way to drive from farm to farm, and medicine. Also the feed and straw for animals will be needed to be successful. Sometimes during harvest season my father and uncle will help with harvesting or running wagons or working ground. Also every other tuesday a rep from Mercer Landmark comes out to check on the pigs and give suggestions or tell me I´m doing my job right. That is a day of care and management on my farm.