Tall Fescue in Avilla...more news than you can use from bar stools to church pews
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TALL FESCUE
inspired by Old Route 66 ghost town Avilla, Missouri. Notes of freshly cut green grass in a 7 oz soy candle. Avilla looks mostly abandoned at first glance on the scenic byway stretch of Old Route 66, now known as Highway 96, just east of Carthage, Missouri. Locals know that Avilla is more than just a forgotten past. This farming community is home of the Avilla Panthers K-8th grade school, post office, Pennington Seed buying station, Bernie's Route 66 Bar & Grill, and several small churches. Need to know the "Rest of the Story", read below what Massey Ferguson 510 combines and start up businesses have in common.
Harvesting fescue seed is a very short window of opportunity. The timing of harvesting the seed is critical, picked with too much moisture discounts price. Waiting too long to thrash a dry seed results with loss in shattering the seed head to the ground. The harvest of grass seed is usually a secondary income to a stock farming operation, so not much cash flow can feasibly be spent on new equipment.
In the 1980's- a 1970's Massey Ferguson 410 or 510 combine was an economical solution for the pick up of lightweight seed. The 80's were also plagued with financial obstacles for those young families engaged in production agriculture...hot was a drought, cold was a blizzard, interest rates were harsh, and so on. The fescue harvest was an intense hustle to get the job done quick and efficient, that same intense and exhausting hustle is something all entrepreneurs share.
Inevitable during the hustle, there is a crash, something goes wrong, all productivity comes to a halt. Anger usually isn't a useful emotion at this point. A deep breath and careful study of the situation requires some skill in self-control, problem solving, and perseverance. We look at what seems to be broken, what is the obstacle requiring repair. Sometimes it's a part too expensive, too far away to wait on. Time is money. Other times, it's tearing the machine completely apart to find that small bearing that simply needed replaced. Once in a while it's a torch and welder with more parts left on the ground than were put back into the machine. That's when you pray that you make it another round, pray that the weather and the price hold, and that the risk you're taking to stay out all night with no sleep to get the job done...is actually going to provide for your family. Hustle, be Humble, Limit Un-productivity, When the Problem seems too big to Fix - Pray.
