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- Some people have hobbies.
They might golf or they
might like to go fishing.
And my hobby is farming.
(swooshing)
- Hey, everyone.
Welcome to the inaugural
video episode of "Eggheads."
If you're listening to us
on your normal podcast app,
it shouldn't sound much different,
but if you wanna see our
fancy new studio set up,
you should go check us out on YouTube.
(swooshing)
We all know the farmer's
life isn't an easy one.
It's all day, every day.
To do it, you really gotta love it.
And today's guest loved it so much
that he gave up his incredibly
successful finance career
to go build a life with
his family on a farm.
And not only did he build a
successful layer operation,
but in designing his barn
to fit the needs of a specific farm,
he built something truly unique.
So unique, in fact,
that people came in
from neighboring states
just to see what the
heck he was cooking up.
With that in mind, let's get
into it with today's guest,
Travis Bybee.
(cheerful music)
(swooshing)
You spent 25 years in finance,
and eventually became a bank president.
So by most people's
standards, you made it.
(Travis laughing)
That's a good career.
What was missing from that life?
- I did have a very fulfilling
career in the business world
and I enjoyed it,
and it allowed our family
to do a lot of things.
But my goal,
from whenever I was a little
kid growing up on the farm,
my grandpa farmed, my dad
farmed, my uncles farmed.
And so that was the goal in my life
was to become a full-time farmer.
But starting from scratch,
you know, it's tough.
You gotta buy land, you
gotta buy livestock,
and you can't just start
from scratch day one
and make that all happen, so.
It took an off the farm job
to make that become a reality.
And so, yeah, I've spent 25 years.
Bought my first piece of
land in the year 2000.
Over the years we've
accumulated about 1,400 acres.
So for those years, you know,
working off the farm and
accumulating and building the farm,
and spent a lot of long hours
coming home after working,
you know, eight to five job
at the bank, or whatnot,
come home and farm until after dark.
A lot of late nights,
but always with that goal in mind
of becoming a full-time farmer.
You know, we spent basically every dollar
we were able to save up
investing into properties
and local farms and into the
cattle industry to begin with.
So we have a cow-calf operation.
- The whole time you
were working at the bank,
were you farming on the side,
or was there a period where
you were pure banking?
How was that?
- So I started off in
the insurance industry.
I had an insurance office
in a local town there.
And then after a few years
moved over into banking.
And then like you said,
the last eight years of my banking career,
I was the president of
the local bank there.
But yeah, from day one, I
purchased my first farm.
I got out of college,
and a few months later a farm
came available to purchase,
and I scratched and clawed and
was able to make that happen.
And then, you know, four years later,
another local piece came available
and was able to purchase that.
And so we purchased our last
piece of ground in 2019.
So it took several years.
It didn't happen overnight.
So that was a long process
of trying to build a farm
big enough and efficient enough
to make it our full-time job.
Like I said, started off
with a cow-calf operation.
We sell a lot of hay.
We combine a lot of fescue
seed, Kentucky 31 fescue seed.
So we were a little bit diversified,
but it still wasn't enough
to make it a full-time gig.
So just hung in there with the banking.
And then the layer barns
came into the mix
and that allowed us to make
this our full-time life,
I guess you'd say.
- That's great.
So, man, I have a couple questions 'cause,
well, one, I'm curious,
like, what do the people
at the bank think?
Do they think you're crazy or, uh-huh?
- Everyone that's close to me,
friends, coworkers, family,
they've known that this
is what I wanted to do
for my whole life, so.
It's not a surprise to
anyone that's been around me
'cause everyone knew that
that was my end goal, so.
No one was surprised that this is the path
that I was working towards.
- Yeah.
Were you working, like, with ag clients,
or a whole range of clients?
Okay.
- Yeah, so my, you know, we
were a small town hometown bank,
so in that you deal with
whatever walks through the door,
you know, whatever the need is,
you help the client reach their goal,
or whatever their dream is.
But because of my background
and because of what I
did at home on the farm,
it was just natural for me to lean towards
the ag lending side of the things.
I was able to talk with the customers
and understood their trials
and the things that they
were going through, so.
I think it made the
customers feel comfortable
because they were talking
to somebody that knew,
you know, what they were feeling,
what they were dealing with.
And, you know, I was
also able to, you know,
you know, maybe a younger
first-time farm owner,
I was able to maybe give
them a little bit of advice
of what I experienced, so,
yeah, it worked really well.
And that side of the job I just loved.
Like I said, it was a very fulfilling job.
- Working with the farms.
Working with, yeah, people
trying to make it work, uh-huh.
- And when it comes to the
layer side of our operation
that we have today,
that wouldn't have happened
without my banking experience
because I did not grow
up on a chicken farm.
I did not have that experience growing up.
I gained that experience by
working with my customers
'cause we financed a lot of
chicken barns over the years.
So I did farm inspections
and was on-site seeing what
worked, what didn't work.
Obviously I seen the financial side of it
and I seen what worked and didn't work.
After they had their
barns for a few years,
they would, you know, tell me,
hey, I would've done this
a little bit different
if I could rebuild again, so.
Whenever we started our
project of building our barns,
it was not a new thing to me.
I made a mental note
of all the things that
those customers have said,
hey, I would do this a
little bit different.
And so that helped my wife and I
whenever we were planning our project.
- That's really interesting.
So you had a lot of general farm exposure,
but your exposure to eggs
didn't really happen until banking.
- That's exactly right.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- And were you, I mean, I
guess you saw the numbers first
and you were like, man, the
farming money's all in eggs.
(both laughing)
- Well, I don't know about that,
but it works really, really well
with our cattle operation
and our hay operation.
It was kind of the final puzzle piece
that we had been looking
for, so, you know.
We run a couple hundred
head of cow-calf pairs.
We have the hay sales and
the fescue seed combining,
which is just, like,
10 days or two weeks out of
the year, but the layer barns
fit that so well
because we can pack our
eggs in the morning.
Then we can, you know, go check the cows,
fix fence, whatever the day,
you never know what's
gonna happen on a farm,
but go bale hay in the middle of the day
and then come back to
the barns in the evening
and check it over and make
sure everything's okay.
So the timing wise of what's
required with the chicken barns
fit well with what we
already had established.
And then on the financial side of it,
a large expense for our cattle operation
and our hay operation was fertilizer.
We bought a lot of litter every year,
had to have it trucked in.
So that was our number one expense
that we incurred on that side of the farm.
And now we have the litter
produced by our barns.
So basically the only revenue
that we have to contribute to that is,
you know, my time as far as spreading it,
and some fuel and the
equipment to spread that, so.
So our fertilizer cost
on the cattle side of it
dropped tremendously, so, they
really work together well.
- That's really interesting.
So were eggs, was that the
last piece of the puzzle
that allowed you to leave the bank?
- It was, yes.
- Okay.
- Yes.
- Was that the plan or was
there kind of an aha moment?
- There definitely was an aha moment.
And I know exactly when it was.
I went to a meeting.
I was invited to go to
a meeting as a banker,
not as a farmer,
where some guys that were looking
to build new chicken barns
were meeting with some
equipment providers,
some companies that were
wanting to sell them equipment.
And so they invited me to come
and I went hoping to loan
some money to these farmers.
That was my only intent.
And so I went to this
meeting and, you know,
was just sitting there
with my customers visiting,
not really thinking much about,
you know, what was being presented.
And it was my first exposure
to an aviary nesting system,
and it really piqued my interest.
The benefits of that as far
as the efficiencies of it,
the air quality in the barns,
not only for the birds
themselves, for their health,
but also, you know, if we build a barn,
I want my family to be,
you know, working in a nice environment.
So air quality was top priority
for us on that side of it.
And then also with the aviary systems,
the litter is removed
on a daily basis, so.
We could go in there and get
the fertilizer for our farm
365 days a year whenever we need it
instead of waiting between flocks,
which most of the barns in our area,
they clean out the barn after each flock
and that's when you can
get your litter, so.
All those things combined
really piqued my interest, so.
I left that meeting hungry to
learn more, I guess you'd say.
- [Greg] It got the gears turning.
- It did, so, for the next better,
probably better portion of a year,
I'm kind of embarrassed
to say how many hours
that my wife and I researched.
We traveled.
Even took a couple of
flights to go visit barns,
to visit with people
that have put in the style of nesting too.
We probably visited somewhere
between 40 and 50 barns
and just chatted with the farmers and say,
hey, if you were gonna do this again,
you know, what would you do different?
Or what would you definitely not change?
What did you love?
And we left every meeting
with all those farmers
and all those companies with notes
and we would take those notes back home
and we would just study 'em,
and watch hundreds of
YouTube videos on how
every company's equipment
works a little bit different
and what is better with one
and what's not so good with another.
So long story short,
after, you know, almost
a year of doing that,
we knew we were in.
We were ready to pull the trigger.
So then it was a matter of
getting everyone lined up
to build this facility
'cause it wasn't one that,
there wasn't guys out there
doing turnkey projects
that would've fit what I was doing.
- That's really interesting.
I just got this image in my head of,
well, you're sitting in that meeting
and you've got, you know,
you're just there to listen,
and must've been a good
salesman in that room
because you're like,
yeah, actually, I oughta
buy one of these things.
So you've got this, like,
man, this could be the
missing puzzle piece.
And you go on the road here.
One thing you've emphasized is
when you were talking to these farms,
you always wanted to know,
hey, where can this go wrong?
Can you talk some to that?
- Yeah.
So kind of going back to my banking years,
whenever I was talking to
one of my customers there
that was thinking about
starting a business or whatever,
I would always tell them,
don't tell me the good parts.
I'll figure those out.
Tell me the downside.
Let's talk about that.
If something goes wrong,
you know, how are we gonna navigate that?
Whenever it came to equipments or barns,
I didn't wanna know, you know.
I did wanna know what worked well,
but I was more focused on, you
know, the guy that would say,
hey, you know,
I would've made this area of
my barn a little bit different
and these are the reasons why.
That was very helpful for us too,
'cause, you know, this
is the biggest investment
that I had ever made in
my life building these.
We have two 50,000 bird,
free-range organic barns.
So those are the biggest investment
that I'd ever made in my life financially.
And you do it one time.
It's not like you can build it and say,
oops, I want a do-over.
That's not gonna happen.
So we did our best to
build it the right way.
The research and development
part of it was fun.
I loved every second of it.
Stayed up 'til midnight, a lot of nights,
reading and things like
that, but it was very fun.
I enjoyed it.
Now the construction side of it.
So we had to GC the project ourselves.
There was no turnkey guy out there
that had ever built a barn like we wanted.
So the actual blueprint
I came up with myself
and we pieced together all the equipment,
the concrete guys, the builders,
the installers, the
conveyors, the electricians.
And that was taxing too,
because you have to deal with the timing
because all these individual
companies have a schedule,
but you had to time it to where everyone
showed up in succession
and everything was timed
and the construction guys had
to frame everything perfectly
so the ventilation would fit,
and the ventilation needed the
electrician to run everything
to make everything work in the end.
I'd never been through that myself.
We've never built a house
or anything like that, so.
The construction part of
it was very stressful.
- So what led you to
having something different
than your neighbors?
Was it all the research
you did ultimately,
or was it your preferences?
- The efficiency in the barn.
That is why we did things
a little bit different.
We wanted to utilize
technology as much as we could,
you know.
If we're not on the barn site,
we can basically see everything
on our phones or our iPad.
We can change things, you know, remotely.
In our egg room, we utilized
a packer and a stacker
and a palletizer to pack the eggs, so.
Basically when it comes down to it,
it puts 900 dozen eggs on a pallet,
basically without a human touching them.
And it does it very efficiently
as far as our labor cost,
but also time-wise, it's very quick.
So that was with having
two barns and the cattle
and what we already had,
efficiency as far as
time-wise was important to us.
So we did spend a little more money
to invest in those things.
In the end, we felt like
it was gonna pay us back in efficiencies.
- And then what about, like,
your banking background
at this point in it?
Do you think that played a role
in how you though through this, uh-huh?
- Whenever it came to, you know,
trying to decide which
birds we wanted to have,
whether we wanted to go
pasture or free-range,
the numbers nerd inside of
me came out during that time.
And, you know, that
part of it, I had been,
you know, thinking, hey, if
I built one of these one day,
you know, what direction
would I go in that?
So that was something that,
you know, I thought about for a long time.
That wasn't something that
we decided last minute, so.
Yeah, my nerdy banking brain
had been working on that for a long time.
- Okay.
So your experience already gave you
a pretty clear picture on that end.
- Right.
- So, like, I mean, you're
doing all this research
on how to kind of build
the optimal facility.
Did you already have worked out
where your eggs were gonna go?
- Yeah, for sure, yeah.
We weren't gonna jump into building,
you know, a facility without,
you know, having means
to repay it, you know,
and to make it efficient on
the financial end of it, so.
Yeah, we had a contract
before we broke ground
with our egg company,
so, that was established,
or basically the first
thing we established
and then moved on from there
after we were confident with that.
- You know, and then you
ultimately, I guess you said
you ended up deciding also
to go free-range organic,
and that came from your banking days.
You knew that was a good avenue for you.
- Right.
We initially thought we
were gonna go pasture.
And we actually had our
excavation company come out
and shoot an area to see if it would work.
But what it came down to,
so the name of our ranch
is Thomas Creek Ranch.
And that is because Thomas Creek,
which is a decent sized waterway,
runs about a mile through our farm.
Even though that's one
of our favorite parts
about our ranch,
whenever it came to the pasture
side of the chicken barn,
it kind of threw a wrench into that
because it's so big you
can't fence across it.
And so it eliminated a
large portion of our farm
as a potential location
for a pasture raised-barn
because we couldn't fit enough acres
around the barn without that
creek interrupting that area.
- That's interesting.
So you've got your eggs lined up,
you did your research, you
know what you wanna build.
And then it sounds like
the construction itself
was more difficult than
what you had in mind.
And part of it is that you
were doing something different.
- Yeah, and keep in mind,
at the beginning of the construction,
I was still working at the bank
and trying to navigate all that,
and trying to take care of our cattle.
And yeah, that was,
I wouldn't wanna go
back to that time period
'cause that was very stressful.
- And then on top of it,
I understand you had visitors there.
- Yes, yeah, that was
kind of overwhelming, so.
Because our barn was unique for our area,
we just literally, you're
gonna think I'm exaggerating,
but we had between 10 and
20 people that we don't know
randomly pull into our
barn during construction
and wanna walk through.
And so it was a lot of
fun, I do have to say.
We got to meet so many good people.
I think at last count,
there was people from
eight different states
that swung in there to see it.
And I still have those
connections today, so,
you know, I wouldn't
trade it for the world,
but wow, it was just nonstop.
We ended up having to put
security cameras on the entrance
so that if we weren't there,
we knew if someone pulled in.
Yeah, it was quite the experience.
- Were these skeptics or
just curious people or?
- The majority of them were people
that had tossed around the
idea of building a chicken barn
and somehow they had heard
that we were building something
that might be a little bit
different than the norm.
And so they just wanted
to visually see it.
I don't know how many of those ended up
building the barn like ours.
And then, you know, some
of 'em were probably just,
you know, curious and wanted
to see what was going in, so.
But I do know that there's several barns
that have our blueprint floor plan
that are in operation now.
I don't remember the last
count, but there's several, so.
For Dena and I, that's kinda cool.
- Yeah, for sure.
- That we kinda got something started.
- Did anyone, I mean, was anyone
looking at this and saying,
oh, this will never work
or any aspect of it?
(both laughing)
- Oh, I'm sure, but they
probably didn't tell me.
- Was there a moment
that you ever had a doubt
during this period of, like,
what am I getting myself
into or anything like that?
- Just during the construction, I'm like,
is this gonna work, you know.
- Uh-huh.
- Whenever a certain construction crew
would have a delay, you
know, on another project
and then have to push us back,
and then I had to push the next guy back
'cause they all have to fall in the line.
Yes, during that time it was like,
oh, my, is this gonna work?
- Mm-hmm.
- But it did, so you
had to have faith, yeah.
- That's great.
And then when did you quit your bank job?
Was it, like, the day
construction was over?
- It was a couple months in
the construction, yeah, yeah.
It was just too much, so.
I had to be there
because it was such an
important project, you know.
For us, for our family, it
was a life-changing project.
And it was too important
not to be there, you know,
with boots on the ground
to make sure everyone's,
you know, answer their questions,
or get 'em what they need, or, you know.
There was several days,
you know, a crew would come
and maybe they were short,
whatever material they might be short.
And my wife and I would
just have to make a run
and go get something,
so, we had to be there.
It wouldn't have worked
without us being there on-site.
(swooshing)
- Okay, so you had it all basically ready
well before the birds were coming,
and then when the birds placed,
it was now you're a farmer.
- We built our barns basically in unison.
You know, when a crew would
get done with one barn,
they would drive down the road
and do the same thing to the other one.
And they were mirror
images of each other, so.
They basically went up simultaneously.
And so we were finished with construction.
Everything had been tested
and was ready to roll.
The ventilation and the nesting companies,
they wanted to have an open house.
And so they organized
that and I don't remember,
we lost track of how
many people were there.
It was over a thousand people showed up.
It was kind of a neat
deal, so we had that.
Once everyone left for that, we cleaned up
and we just waited on our birds.
And ever since then, we've
just got to live our dream.
- That's great.
How long ago was that?
- We got our birds in April of last year.
- Okay, cool.
- So we're just finishing
up our first flock.
- Yeah, no, that seems
like a major experience.
Like, I almost feel like every,
you know, population date
should be celebrated like that.
Yeah, a thousand people that's neat.
So then, well, then I guess
now that you have that running,
you know, I think you
touched on this a little,
but what's a day in the
life now that you've got,
I guess you've got the eggs running
and plus your other
farming operations as well?
- Sure, yeah, yeah.
So we always start off our
day by going to the barns,
you know, walk through the birds,
make sure they're all doing well,
and start packing the eggs.
I tell people the good thing
about the layer industry is
they lay eggs seven days a week.
So you get income seven days a week.
The bad thing about it is
they lay seven days a week
and you have to be there
seven days a week, so.
For a while, my wife and I
just did it on our own, so,
you know, we didn't leave.
We wanted to make sure this first flock
got off on a good foot.
And so we were there all the time.
After, you know, about a month,
we had a local individual
contact us and say,
hey, if you ever would
like some help in the barn
to give you a day off or something,
we would be interested in
that and we lucked out.
That person's still with
us today, so, you know.
Either them or us starts packing the eggs
about eight o'clock in the morning.
It takes about two hours per barn
to pack the eggs in the mornings.
And then normally our normal
day would be after doing that,
we go grab some lunch
and then whatever needs
to be done on the farm,
whether it's, you know,
moving cattle around and checking cattle,
working cattle, baling
hay, repairing equipment,
you know, that's what we would
do in the middle of the day.
And then always finish our day
by checking in with the barns again.
But that's kind of a
day in the life for us.
- You know, is the
diversification of things,
would you say that's a part of, you know,
being able to make it work
from a farming perspective?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Well, any business, I
think if you can diversify,
it's gonna help you get through the,
you know, the economics
of the business world.
And so, you know, if one thing, you know,
right now, cattle, the beef
cattle market's really good, so.
That side of it's going really well
and, you know, who knows
what the future holds?
And we went through times in the past
where the cattle market's been down
and we might have a drought and
our hay market just explodes
'cause people, you know, are
running short on hay, so.
All of those working hand in hand,
it really kinda helps us
maybe be a little more stable
as far as a steady income.
- And then you already mentioned how,
I guess the manure from your egg operation
can feed your other operations too.
- Yeah, that's been really nice, yeah, so.
- Yeah.
- We got some of that put on last fall
and it's working very nicely.
- Part of it, I think,
it sounds like you manage
your time really well.
You know, you work hard,
you have that all laid out.
I guess, what do you think
are some of the keys to
making it all work, you know,
from the family and farming side?
- Sure.
Well, I was forced to
become a better time manager
whenever I was working in
the business world, you know.
I had an office job trying
to take care of the farm.
And like I said, my family
is number one to me, so.
I'm always being there
and not trying not to
miss anything with them.
Yeah, you just have to manage time
and have a lot of
jam-packed full days, so.
After dealing with that for 25 years,
our schedule now, it kind
of seems like a cakewalk
because we have a lot more
freedom with the farm itself
because, you know, whenever
I worked at the bank,
you had to be there
certain hours of the day.
And I have to be on the farm
to take care of the farm
for a certain amount of hours per day,
but it's a little more flexible.
So if I need to run up to
school to watch my, you know,
my daughter's, you know, concert
or whatever, I can do that.
And then I can just work an
extra, you know, hour or two
at the end of the day at
the farm to make up for it.
So that flexibility has been
a really blessing for us.
- Yeah.
Maybe that's the part
that might be surprising
for a lot of people because
when they think of farming,
you know, you hear seven-day-a-week job,
and tied to your job,
and those kind of things, but
you don't see it that way.
- No, and one thing my customers,
whenever I worked at the
bank, they'd come in my office
and they would just be like,
why do you keep farming?
That's all you do is you
work here at the bank
and then you go home and you
work until dark on the farm.
And my answer to that was always,
you know, some people have hobbies.
They might golf or they
might like to go fishing.
My hobby is farming.
It doesn't feel like a job to me.
I love every second of it.
I can work a 14-hour day out on the farm
and come home feeling great
because you get to see
that accomplishment.
You get to see what...
You can look back on your day and say,
you know, look what I accomplished.
And so that's fulfilling.
And I get up every day now
and don't even feel
like I'm going to work.
I just feel like I'm going to do my hobby,
you know, what I love to do, so.
That's just a huge blessing to us,
and I wouldn't trade it
for anything in the world.
- I mean, it sounds like,
you know, your whole vision,
you know, ultimately was
about this picture of a life
and a family you can build.
And it sounds like it's working, you know,
including for the kids.
And, you know, you've talked
about how much they've learned
and just observed being around the farm.
- Yeah, yeah, that's big.
I learned, you know, what
work ethic I do have from my,
you know, from growing up on a farm,
from my dad and my grandpa.
And so being able to continue that
is something I didn't know
if I'd ever accomplish,
but, thankfully, we're kind of there
and I'm able to pass that on, so.
Hopefully, they gain some
life experiences in life
benefit them in whatever path they choose
whenever they get older.
But yeah, we've focused on the three Fs,
faith, family and farm, so.
Right now we're able to
combine all three of those
into our daily life,
so, you can't beat that.
- Yeah, no, that's great.
Well, one thing that
stood out to me before is
you mentioned you got your
son, I guess your youngest,
just on your lap on the tractor
in the middle of the day when, you know,
you'd normally be in the office.
- Yeah, yeah.
We recently bought a different tractor.
One of his first questions
was, does it have a buddy seat?
'Cause he definitely wanted
to ride in there with me,
so that's pretty cool.
- Mm-hmm, that's great.
Well, I've got one last
question for you then, Travis.
How do you prefer your eggs?
(both laughing)
- I'm gonna have to go with scrambled.
And digging a little deeper into that,
my wife, she makes scrambled eggs
with a little bit of
cottage cheese mixed in.
- Ooh.
- And don't knock it until
you try it, it's phenomenal.
- I have not tried that.
- You have to try it.
- Huh, does it melt or is it like visible?
- It's not visible, it's not.
You wouldn't even know it was in there.
- Okay, dang.
- It's delicious.
- That's good to know.
(swooshing)
Travis, I really appreciate
you making the drive
and sharing your story with us today.
It's a really, really cool story.
- Well, thank you.
Thanks for having me.
This was a cool experience,
and when we met you at PEAK,
you know, you had mentioned this,
and we didn't know if it
would really come to fruition,
but it has, and it's something,
another thing on the list
that I never though would happen, so.
It's just a cool experience,
and I'm grateful for the
opportunity to come visit with you.
(swooshing)
- That was Travis Bybee
sharing his incredible
journey from bank to farm
and really having the courage
to do so in his own way.
And because he was willing
to blaze that path,
he's made it easier for others
to follow in his footsteps
and set an incredible
example for his kids.
Thanks so much to all
of you for tuning in.
It was fun to mix it up a
bit and incorporate video.
It's something we'll
wanna do more and more
as we move forward.
So if you've already added us
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go ahead and subscribe
to us on YouTube as well.
Once again, I'm Greg Schonefeld,
and we'll talk to you soon.
(cheerful music)
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