Just like Santa Claus, a farmer works all year on a commodity, and at the end of the year he gives it all away.
Ronald Dawson
Our customer base was dwindling. The Internet allows us to expand the customer base.
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If a customer makes crafts as a hobby, we ask them to bring them in and we will sell them.
I pay.95 per bushel of corn now. If I bought the corn from farmers in Middle and West Tennessee, it would cost.93 to.13 per bushel. By the time I add shipping charges, it would cost.95 a bushel. I am paying local farmers the difference in the transportation cost to help keep them in business.
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In 1972, the Food and Drug Administration came through and said the building was too old to grind grain for human consumption.
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I was going to be a media director for a school system and had job offers in California and Chicago. When George (St. John) was nearing retirement age, he made me an offer to purchase the business.
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The job description here is very simple - whatever needs to be done. If a man walks in here and says something is broken, it can't be fixed and it can't be done - if you really want to set me ablaze, tell me something can't be done. Around here, hard-to-do things, we do immediately. Impossible things just take a little longer. If it can't be repaired, then we replace it. Most of the time, if something tears up, it tears up for a reason, the way it was designed.
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Then George (St. John) purchased nuts and bolts, things he was using on the farm. It kind of evolved to everything he needed on the farm and other items customers requested.
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