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| Boucher Family Farm |
That's our young stock barn. It houses calves, pigs, turkeys, feed, seed, fertilizer, our sunflower processing room, and a walk-in freezer with all our frozen meat inventory.
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| Boucher Family Farm |
The fire is nearly out.
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| Boucher Family Farm |
Firefighters stayed throughout the night to put out the flare-ups.
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| Boucher Family Farm |
Next morning: The sunflower room.
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| Boucher Family Farm |
There's a $20,000 automatic calf feeder in there, and five calves that did not make it.
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| Boucher Family Farm |
"Old Shop" collapsed on an orange pickup. Not pictured, some burned out pickups on the other side.
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| Boucher Family Farm |
I think that's the walk-in, and there are eight burned up pigs in the pile.
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| Boucher Family Farm |
Pushed and pulled the silo down, still scraping up the floor. That's the sunflower bin on its side.
Firefighters got all the turkeys out. The calves that survived are living in the alpacas winter enclosure. I've ordered another freezer, and expect to be putting it in its own building this time.
I don't think we'll be rebuilding the sunflower processing part of the business, but I have found a home for all the seeds coming off the fields this year.
The dairy barn, parlor, dry-cow barn and cheese plant were untouched.
