Just like Santa Claus, a farmer works all year on a commodity, and at the end of the year he gives it all away.

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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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I pay $2.95 per bushel of corn now. If I bought the corn from farmers in Middle and West Tennessee, it would cost $1.93 to $2.13 per bushel. By the time I add shipping charges, it would cost $2.95 a bushel. I am paying local farmers the difference in the transportation cost to help keep them in business.

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If a customer makes crafts as a hobby, we ask them to bring them in and we will sell them.

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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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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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