re: Paging Delta Land

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Brookie’s last job was building our bass lake

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Duett from Belzoni?

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Really? Are there a lot of investment groups that actually raise fish?

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Not anymore. And this particular group is just Paul Bryant jr (Bear Bryant’s son) and his wealthy buddies. They own AC, a couple casinos and dog tracks, Bryant bank, and other stuff.

Used to be a ton of big corporations and investment groups when it was a bigger industry but they lost their arse. Hormel owned Farm Fresh catfish that had 14,000 acres and 2 plants but all closed in 2003. Conagra had a plant in Isola (it’s still running but is privately owned now by several farmers under the Country Select and Delta Pride brands).

Goldkist had big operations and shut down.
Several New York and foreign investors used to have farms around here where they bought the ponds and hired managers. They didn’t make it, you have to be on top of things yourself if it’s your money. There were a few investment farms that lasted a long time because they hired good managers but they shut down either because the owners retired and divested from it or the ponds got old and didn’t produce and they refused to invest money to rebuild them. If you don’t rebuild your ponds every 10 or so years production starts to fall due to poor water quality and silting in