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Poultry farms bring home bacon: Mena Real Estate Company only sells houses--for chickens.(Agriculture)
Arkansas Business
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January 26, 2004|
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MARY STORY HAS BEEN stomping around Mena area poultry farms since she was a kid. She's used to the typical stench emanating from chicken houses holding thousands of birds for nearly two months before a processor comes with trucks for them.
But for Story, that stink is giving way to a far sweeter aroma--the smell of money.
"I come from a poultry background; my parents had chicken houses," Story said. "I got into real estate in 1983 and sold my first poultry farm the next year. I was the only real estate agent [in the area] interested in selling poultry ...
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