OCF Crew

06/18/2026

OCF is still needing some additional crew members for summer and fall corn silage harvest. Fun work environment, good pay, well maintained equipment. Year round available with housing provided. We are a completely non smoking company.

04/16/2026

Night time cleaning after a productive day. We were treated to an amazing sit down supper tonight with the Godfrey dairy crew and family. It was commemorating our 25 years of harvesting for them. A hibachi and sushi food truck made everyone smile. Feels like our southern home!

03/13/2026

The black beast has made it back to Georgia. It’s been part of the crew since 1997 when we purchased it as our first semi. Great to see it back on the road. The palfinger on the back of the Big M trailer has already come in handy for a little cart rack repair. The crane was on our never ending list of equipment “Wants”

03/13/2026

Made it to Baconton Georgia. Now we need a dry forecast

11/28/2025

The Midnight Milk Run
Sioux City, Iowa – January 1949
A 72-hour blizzard locked every road in northwest Iowa.
Dairies dumped thousands of gallons because trucks couldn’t move.
In town, babies were down to powdered milk thinned with snow.
At 2 a.m. on the third night, dairy farmer Harold “Swede” Petersen hitched his 1936 John Deere to a bobsled, loaded thirty rattling milk cans, and started toward Sioux City 18 miles away.
He figured if the highway patrol caught him, they’d need milk too.
Word spread on party-line phones.
Every mile another farmer joined: one with a team of Percherons, one on a Caterpillar tractor, one walking beside a single Guernsey cow wearing a horse blanket.
By dawn a silent convoy of 43 rigs (sleds, tractors, wagons, even a 1928 REO truck on chains) crawled down Highway 75 at four miles an hour, headlights cutting tunnels through whiteout.
They reached the hospital at 9 a.m.
Nurses ran out crying.
The first can Swede handed down still had ice on the lid, but the milk inside was warm from the cows’ bodies.
They delivered 4,800 gallons door-to-door that day: hospitals first, then every house with a red ribbon on the mailbox (the signal for a baby inside).
Not one can was sold.
Every farmer wrote “Paid in full – Spring grass” on the tag.
When the roads finally opened, the state tried to give them a medal.
Swede just said, “We were only bringing home what was already ours.”
The convoy never happened again, but every January when the wind howls out of South Dakota, old folks in Sioux City set an extra glass of milk on the porch rail.
It’s always empty by morning.

11/25/2025

Any of my manure pumping / hauling friends out there USCHI is working to include you. We have vendors bringing pumping/agitation equipment and need you to attend. Help USCHI become the national voice for your industry also. Your labor and DOT issues are the same as a harvesting company. Together we can achieve more!!!

Register now for Annual Convention! Badge prices increase December 1. Learn more about registration and the Annual Convention agenda here. >> https://www.uschi.com/page/AnnualConvention

10/23/2025

Just fired up the grain dryer. Smells like fall now.

10/18/2025

Last 35 acres of soybeans for 2025 harvest. Justin has cut all of them with Mo in the cart and Megan moving the header. On to the corn and then back down to Georgia for the last of the second crop corn silage.

10/09/2025

Yep it’s time to get out of Michigan. Frost on the windows is a great indication that silage season should be over soon. We are loaded up and leaving today.

10/01/2025

Krone 1180 vs Claas 1200