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Farm Crew & Salfords

 We have a great crew on our farm

Mark treats his employees well, he is respectful and considerate. During harvest he makes sure not to push too long hours and quits no later than 8. He tries to work them in shifts so they get a break. He takes into consideration activities like going to see their kids play volleyball, football, and go trick or treating by letting them leave early. He stays and does the hard stuff, getting up in the night to check the dryer, running the longer hours, shutting down for the night. He also has been hauling Salfords in the middle of it all. He makes sure to let the whole crew have Sundays off, a day of rest for all. I love that. The Salford sales have been through the roof with selling 5 in one week! The phone keeps ringing and no doubt this will be a record breaking sales year for Mark. His head is spinning trying to take all the calls, and figure the logistics, invoices, deliveries, future purchases and assemblies. It takes a lot of time, effort, and people to make it all work. We are so grateful for a great team. He had one Salford that a guy bought and used for the fall. Mark bought it back so that he could sell it to another guy and then buy a newer machine for the first guy. Sometimes he has to be creative to meet all the demands. He went and picked up the machine and delivered to the second guy after maintenancing all in one day. He works hard at what he does and deals with so many people from the Salfrod team, customers, and employees. I could never do all that he does and he does it well. 

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