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Agricultural Cooperative Office Moving in the Valley

Board rooms, member files and flat map cabinets moved in the gap between your crop's busy season and the next board meeting.

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Agricultural Cooperative Office moving in the Sacramento Valley: Murdock's crew at work
  • Licensed & InsuredUSDOT 3421940 · MC 1416634
  • Locally OperatedChico + Yuba City
  • Sacramento ValleyChico · Yuba City · Sacramento

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Planning a Agricultural Cooperative Office Move

The right week to move a farm office depends on what grows around it. A rice marketing cooperative in Colusa or Sutter County is at full tilt from September through October when deliveries come in, and again in spring when members are planting. An office serving orchard growers in Butte County feels almonds and walnuts from August into November, and one serving Yuba-Sutter peach and prune growers is busy through the summer. Farm-credit and crop-insurance offices follow those same calendars, plus their own claim and reporting dates.

So the general manager usually picks a slow stretch for the crops the office serves, then checks it against the board calendar. Directors meet on a fixed schedule, and the board room has to be set before the next meeting.

Inside, these offices hold things most office moves do not: grower member files going back many years, flat-file cabinets of ranch maps, parcel plats and aerial photos, and a front counter where members drop in with paperwork. We move all of it to rooms your staff assign, in the order they choose.

Who usually signs off
Cooperative general manager or office administrator, with the board secretary and records lead approving room order
Timing that works
The slow weeks for the crops you serve, usually winter for orchard offices and early summer for rice offices, with the board room set before the next meeting.

What typically moves

  • Board table sections and director chairsTaken apart where the table allows, hardware bagged underneath, and set before the next board meeting.
  • Grower member file cabinetsPacked and sealed by staff by cabinet and drawer, then set back in the same order.
  • Flat-file map and plat cabinetsMoved level with drawers taped shut; rolled aerials and ranch maps travel in tubes marked by drawer.
  • Member service counter and forms rackSet first at the new office so members can drop off paperwork on the first morning.
  • Farm-credit and crop-insurance officer desksTagged by officer, with desk screens padded and plugged back in at the same desk.
  • Annual-meeting tables, folding chairs and display boardsCounted and set in the storage room your staff pick, so the next grower meeting is easy to stage.

Access and scheduling

Many ag offices sit in single-story buildings in Yuba City, Colusa, Willows, Orland and Gridley, with a gravel or shared lot and a front counter members use all day. We try to load before the front door opens, and in July and August before the heat builds, which usually means a first light start and the heavy cabinets done by midmorning.

Offices on Hwy 20, Hwy 99 or in town centers may need the truck parked on the street or behind the building; we check the approach on a walk-through. When a co-op office is inside a larger building, such as a professional park in Chico or Yuba City, the manager may want an insurance certificate on file, and we send one on request. A Saturday move keeps the counter open for members during the week.

Protection and handling

Flat-file map cabinets are the one piece that can't be rushed. Drawers of plats and aerials usually stay in the cabinet, taped closed, and the cabinet travels level on a padded dolly, never on end. Large rolled maps go into tubes marked by drawer. If a stack of drawers is too heavy to move loaded, staff lift the contents out in labeled folders and we reload them drawer by drawer at the new office.

Grower member files are packed by staff, closed and marked by cabinet and drawer, and moved as sealed cartons. The board table is taken apart where it is built to come apart, with hardware bagged underneath, and director chairs are wrapped individually. The member counter and forms rack are set first so the office can serve walk-ins on day one.

Who does what

Some of this job belongs to other trades. The written plan names each one.

Member records and board packets
Your office staff decide what is current, who may see it and how it is packed. We move the sealed cartons.
Network, phones and loan or policy systems
Your IT provider moves the network and phones and checks each officer's logins.

Not part of our work

  • Sorting, purging or re-filing member records or maps.
  • Moving scales, sampling equipment or anything outside the office building.

Around Chico, Yuba City and Sacramento

Farm offices cluster in Yuba City and Live Oak, Colusa, Willows, Orland, Gridley and Chico, with farm-credit and crop-insurance branches along Hwy 99 and Hwy 20. Moves often run up I-5 or across Hwy 20 between Colusa County and Yuba-Sutter, and the heat from late June through August pushes loading into the early morning.

The crew that shows up

The Murdock’s crew lined up behind the truck on an orchard road in Butte CountyMurdock’s crew rolling a shrink-wrapped piece on dollies through a building lobbyThree Murdock’s crew members at the back of the box truck

Agricultural Cooperative Office Moving FAQs

Another question? Call (530) 354-8089.

Can the board room be ready before our next directors' meeting?

Yes. Tell us the meeting date and the board room goes on the truck last and comes off first. The table, chairs and presentation screen are set, and any agenda binders the secretary packed are placed on the credenza, before the crew moves on to other rooms.

Our map cabinets are full of plats and aerials. Can they move loaded?

Most can, if the cabinet is sound and the drawers are taped shut. It moves level on a padded dolly and is never tipped on end. If a stack is too heavy, staff pull the contents into labeled folders by drawer, and we refill each drawer from its folder once the cabinet is standing.

We serve rice and orchard growers. When should we plan the move?

Look for the weeks when neither crop needs you. For many Valley offices that means late winter, after orchard harvest wraps and before rice planting, or early summer after planting and before peaches and almonds come in. We plan around the date your general manager picks.

Can members still drop off paperwork while we move?

Yes. We can move the back offices and file room first while the counter stays open, then move the counter last on a Saturday and set it up before anything else on arrival. A sign on the old door a week ahead tells members where to go.

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