Bates Turkey Farm is a domestic turkey producer founded in 1923 and based near Fort Deposit, Alabama . A wedding gift of nine turkey eggs was the start of the operation.
The farm is on approximately 900 acres of land and raises free-range turkeys under pecan trees on about 30 of those acres. The farm purchases poults from a hatchery in Oakwood, Ohio. The turkeys are fed a diet of "freshly ground corn, oats and soybean meal, along with some vitamins" and each "needs 70 pounds of grain to reach slaughter size". The Bates Farm services customers from a wide range of locations, including many that are far-flung, including California, Oregon, and Alaska. Because it is cheaper to raise turkeys in the Mid-West, nearer where the grain they eat is grown, other turkey farms in the state have gone out of business, leaving Bates as the sole remaining in Alabama, which once had 150 turkey growers. Turkey prices are highly dependent on feed costs—in 2011 Bates had to double his prices after corn got more expensive.
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