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    2024 Goals

    I've been without an airplane for 12 months and can't take it anymore. It was the right call to sell my Conquest 1... right time and opportunity in the market, and 2023 business burden wouldn't have put me at my best game to be flying. I will end up with 100 segments on Delta this year and...
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    Article on sustainable aviation fuels for airlines

    Soybean oil. There is a rush in new crush plants being completed by 2026 that will add capacity to crush almost 500mm bushels of beans or a 20% increase. That is a little less than a billion gallons/yr mostly planned to go to refineries to crack. ...now about where are we going to find the...
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    The end of Reno

    I figured it was something connected to the Hanford site, but went looking and found this. https://www.historylink.org/File/10147
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    The end of Reno

    We have a farm that is three miles from MWH. Insanely long runways and no commercial service. Interesting landing the Conquest there on 14L and aiming to land 1.8 miles down the runway to save the taxi time. Good place to help Boeing resolve the 737Max problem though. I was told that they had...
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    What are Roosters for

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    What are Roosters for

    Well...I've been happily married for 24 years, have five reasonably well adjusted kids, never done coke or paid for a sex act, never committed securities fraud, and do not have a yacht or helicopter. I'm also without an airplane right now. Boo. OTOH, I have been moderately inebriated at trade...
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    What are Roosters for

    We used to own parent stock to produce our own hatching eggs to produce our own chicks. We exited that part of the business several years ago as there are others who can do it better and more efficiently, and it tended to be the tail wagging the dog from a supply and logistics standpoint...
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    What are Roosters for

    Current cost of feed/dozen is around $0.55/dozen.
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    What are Roosters for

    Yes, they certainly do. Nice breed mix you have there, and good repurposing of a range basket.
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    What are Roosters for

    Several things going on and I'm probably going to say more here than I should - Eggs are not traded on any commodity exchange like the CBOE or CBOT. There is no futures market. The market is quoted by a 3rd party market reporting service called Urner Barry. The industry also uses a service...
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    What are Roosters for

    Funny you should ask that as I got a nice letter from Senator Warren yesterday asking the same question. I can give much more depth, but I've attached our national trade organization's flier to start with an answer. We lost two flocks to HPAI in late October and are just getting them back into...
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    What are Roosters for

    I don't live day to day in this part of the business, but in the commercial egg world we need 1 rooster for every 8 - 12 hens to "get the job done". More than that and the roosters will compete with each other for dominance. Less than that and the fertilization rate is not good. For every 100...
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    Has anyone heard from the "Eggman"?

    In the outbreak in 2015 APHIS estimated over 80% of the infections were horizontal, or farm to farm. This time it is estimated to be under 20%. The number of species as carriers and the prevalence in the environment are terrifying. It seems like we've hopefully learned and implemented the...
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    Has anyone heard from the "Eggman"?

    Oh, we lost a farm to AI in late October and another in early November. If any of you couldn’t find eggs at a certain big box store in the Midwest right before Thanksgiving it was my fault. Good times.
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    Has anyone heard from the "Eggman"?

    I’m here, and certainly haven’t been away because of any posts here. Let’s see…. 1. Completed an acquisition in early Dec ‘21 that added to our production in Washington and Oregon. Learning how to operate animal ag in blue states has been . . . Interesting. 2. Tornadoes in mid Dec 2021...
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