Marketing bagged oats

[Stormin]

We had Canada Federal Inspection Agency come to our farm when we sold oats and other bagged feed. The oat bags had to be properly tagged with the company name and correct weight.
We found by the time we did all the work bagging there wasn't much money left. Too much local competition.
We got ourselves a POS machine for M/C, Visa and Interact and never had a problem collecting. Now we just take the oats to Camrose, good money this past year.
We do sell lots of single small square timothy hay bales to rabbit and guinea pigs at a premium. There's a good money maker.

[foragefarmer]

Use to sell 15000 small squares yearly to the PMU guys until they all disappeared. They were very fussy when it came to the quality of the bales.

Dealing with horse owners that have them as pets, is a whole new level.

It's got to be perfect in their eyes.

[WiltonRanch]

Right now there is a short supply of oats and not many around want to bother selling bagged oats. Local Peavey Mart is $21 for a 20kg bag. The opportunity is now to capitalize but imagine by fall if all the oats materialize price will come down. Have opportunity to buy a manual bag filler which would increase productivity and make job easier but want to sell enough to justify the cost. Right now have a digital scale under the back of the grain truck chute, a bag sewer, and a couple kids just strong enough. We can bag and stack a tonne in an hour.