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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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Current cost of feed/dozen is around $0.55/dozen.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

It really isn't cheap, but man is it nice. I loved my piston airplanes, but turbine flying really is a different game. I probably do need to get out of the habit of entering the downwind at 220kts, but meh...it was a quiet night.

I took my little twin Cessna to FL270 today. ;) https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N425XP

My time machine

Good analysis, and hits close to home. Just wild speculation, but I think it is a combo of the first three. Got behind the aircraft. Got confused by the CTL instruction, and put his head down and started pushing buttons which caused him to completely lose SA. Started fighting the autopilot...