Brighton Capital Profile
Brighton Capital

@BrightonCap

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Alternative asset management with a focus on energy, agriculture and Pez dispensers.

Minneapolis, Minnesota
Joined September 2012
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@BrightonCap
Brighton Capital
4 years
@evren__7 @broceefus You should play...
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4 years
Beyond Meat: How this company has an almost $10B mkt cap is Beyond Me. In a few more days they could call this product The Costanza.
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Meat inspection: As of Apr 12, 145 USDA inspectors infected + 130 self-quarantine + 3 dead. Blows a big hole in the baseless, blame-casting, bigoted theory put forth by CEO of @SmithfieldFoods , an owner of @Triumph_Foods and @govkristinoem that "99% of transmission is at home."
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@Gaber205 @WhiteWheatTweet It gets better: * she complains about forthcoming bills for emergency room. * says "journalists are vultures" (her employer claims to be a news org).
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4 years
@MplsWard3 There should also be a middle ground on the residency issue. 92% living outside of Mpls is part (a large part?) of why they don't give a rat's ass about their employer or the taxpayers. I've read that some cities have settled on a minimum of 5 yrs residency. @MinneapolisPD 1/2
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@BrightonCap
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@ddale8 @natemuzzy IDK who he is but "happy memories" while fantasizing about pedophilia, blood drinking, child murder and other satanic rituals. Strange definition of happy.
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Brighton Capital
4 years
Diesel: If you're a large farmer, diesel has only been this cheap for two periods since 2005.
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Ken Griffin invites you to one of his estates for lunch. While he's in the bathroom, you check the sofa cushions and find $3.5M. What do you buy? A 44-story office bldg in St Louis (formerly the SBC/AT&T bldg) or two tractors and one combine?
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@jaylencavil Never heard of her but @ExileBrewingCo took $1.3M from the federal govt. Did she get tested too?
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1 year
Best Cities in the United States: 1. New York 2. Chicago 3. Los Angeles 4. San Francisco Was this written by someone with an underwater commercial real estate portfolio?
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5 months
I wonder if Matt Damon is busy. Like his Jason Bourne character, he could come back every few years in a film about ADM ( @ADMupdates ).
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4 years
@MichaelEWebber Here's a French mystery: With lockdowns, most US grocery chains & warehouses are having a good to fantastic yr, but not Casino and Carrefour. Something diff about major markets in France and Latin America? No idea... I haven't researched those two, just noticed the difference.
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4 years
@netflixfamily @netflix You have the worst line-up of "Christmas" films. Don't be such a scrooge, you've had the good ones before. You're sending customers to Amazon Prime or other services for the classics.
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If you ever wondered if @FarmBureau was just a wing of the modern GOP, with a large financial services affiliate slinging insurance to unwitting suburbanites, the first 10 pages of their policy book will leave no doubt.
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Brighton Capital
3 years
Nat Gas, real life inflation: Businesses in MN that are unhedged or don't have other pricing agreements are going to pay $10.86/million BTU in Oct, quite a shock from a long period of $5 to $6. Source: CenterPoint
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3 years
Good reporting on what happens when you throw a lot of money at an agricultural start-up, staff it with mostly non-ag people and enter a couple of low-margin businesses with globe-straddling incumbents.
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Brighton Capital
3 years
A reminder: Trade commodities, don't invest in them. If you want to invest, buy shares of a commodity-producing company and hope it's the right one. Alternatively, marry the son or daughter of a land/timber/oil baron.
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In this context "discover" is an odd word choice for a news organization. @USAID is not exactly hiding their work from the public.
@60Minutes
60 Minutes
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60 Minutes discovered the U.S. is financing more than weapons in Ukraine. The government is buying seeds/fertilizer for farmers, paying the salaries of 57,000 first responders and subsidizing small businesses.
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2 years
@JayinKyiv It looks like they fund prison transport better than military transport.
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4 years
@oneunderscore__ @UCBearcat92 Life advice: Don't trust anything connected to Steven Bannon or The Epoch Times (both mentioned in the linked article).
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3 years
Why is chicken so cheap? These four columns explain most of it. /National Chicken Council.
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3 years
Top U.S. flour millers
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How cheap is pork? If the current "primal" values carried over into retail, there should be bargains in pork chops, back ribs, spare ribs, bacon and maybe brats and other sausages (but you're not supposed to ask how the sausage is made/where it comes from).
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Brighton Capital
1 year
Eggs: Midwest producer (on-farm) price has fallen for 23 days and counting ($2.45/doz total). Current price of $2.66 last seen in late October, first crossed in early April.
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3 years
@CitizenMom47 How many at that rally know about the importance of Wellington or Oberlin in the Underground Railroad (some of the homes are still there), or that Oberlin College was 1st or 2nd in the nation in admitting women and blacks? Or the Wellington connection to the famous Spirt of '76?
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4 years
@MplsWard3 @MinneapolisPD It's good to see the Univ of Minn canceling a contract and it looks like the Park Board and School Board are considering the same. Retailers - esp the prominent grocery stores should get behind the move to racist- and thug-free night time security. @MinneapolisPD
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4 years
Comments from CEO of Land O' Lakes to the banksters in Mpls (plus a joke at Cargill's expense). 2. Widows own about 60% of farmland in Iowa. 5. Rural America should be viewed as the “new inner city.”
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Brighton Capital
4 months
Residents of one of the richest countries on Earth shouldn't regularly be whining about the cost of gasoline, but they do, and loudly.
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Brighton Capital
10 months
Cheapest corn since December 2020.
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Brighton Capital
3 years
For corn & soybean traders, here's what you need to know about whether it rained in MN in the last 72 hrs. "Tinkle, tinkle" vs. "I just drank a 12 pack of lawnmower beer."
@WCCO
WCCO | CBS News Minnesota
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Wow! This rain is making a BIG difference! Check out this video sent in by viewer Steve Prieve showing Minnehaha Falls before and after the rain.
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Brighton Capital
5 months
The grain business in one paragraph. "I award you NO ECONOMIC MOAT" ADM fair value $60 /Morningstar (this is a snip from their basic report, freely available)
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Brighton Capital
3 years
@MidwestHedgie Says the medical doctor who now has a hedge fund. ;-) I get your point and I agree but "our best & brightest going into x rather than something important and beneficial to society" is an old complaint. X has been investment banking, strategy consulting, dot bombs, web 2.0 etc...
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Brighton Capital
2 years
@donpcarr Five males and one insurance agency with her husband's family name in Lake Nord, Bryant, De Smet, and Hayti, South Dakota took $265K in PPP loans, all forgiven.
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Last week's fert spill in Iowa. Dead fish and other aquatic life for 50 mi into Missouri. Hard to believe this happened in 2024. This is not Billy Bob's Feed, Seed & Fertilizer. @NEWCooperative has *90* facilities but apparently no money for wireless or wired tank monitors.
@ExposureJb
JB Exposure
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@RiverRaccoon @piper4missouri Read below article. No living fish. Acute toxicity. Killed at cellular level in gills. 265,000 gallons of liquid nitrogen fertilizer into the river. Frogs snakes mussels earthworms dead. Water wells near river tested for levels.
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3 years
@plotner_mike "You would do well to remember that." That's a threat. Do @BASF @AgriGold and @360yieldcenter support this kind of behavior? Also, the man's twitter name contains the word HEDGE, not HEGE and not WEDGE. For a "reality" show about corn, they might want to brush up on mktg terms.
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3 months
The greed of @fritolay @PepsiCo knows no bounds. They've broken the $6 barrier for a 9.25 oz bag. That's $10.88/lb, more than some cuts of steak.
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Brighton Capital
1 year
@JLinvilleFert Table service restaurant? If so, none of those.
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Brighton Capital
1 year
Top 20 US states by fecal density. If No. 2 surprises you (bahaha), Delaware is a small state with a huge number of broilers. Source: @RiverRaccoon and his recent book The Swine Republic.
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The Rogan podcast placement is funny (bottom, dead center): It ranks next to garbage in terms of consistently factual information, but he's carved out a very profitable niche in serving up slop from both sides.
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3 years
Check out this question from the category "Talk like a farmer" (it's 20 seconds long). Based on this deep research, I'd say that contrary to market headlines, very few people speculate in ag commodity markets.
@WestLoopTom
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3 years
@MSGCapital they got this wrong and Matt is losing.
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3 years
@ZR1Trader @Breaking911 That's beautiful. Newsmax has obv gotten "the letter" if not the lawsuit (I can't remember); Lindell remains all in and I'm almost positive he's received the letter.
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Brighton Capital
3 years
The @nytimes needs to sign up for my half-day course in identifying common agricultural products and agricultural and construction equipment.
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Brighton Capital
4 years
@Rschooley @daswenson It has to sting knowing little, if anything, is going to be named after an impeached president.
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Brighton Capital
4 years
Me to wife: "Wife, we go through a lot of hot sauce." Yesterday this arrived. I don't know which brings me greater joy: 64 oz (with a pump!) or that she occasionally hears what I say. 🤪
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Brighton Capital
4 years
Bucket list item achieved: Hanging outside the liquor store, was the first person in at 10:00:01 a.m.
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1 year
Ethanol and another chapter in big companies doing dumb things: Mar 2018: The Andersons and ICM announce the "world's most advanced ethanol plant" in Colwich, KS. Apr 2023: It's in receivership with an estimated $90M write-off.
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Brighton Capital
9 months
Soybean oil for biofuel use: this looks like the death cross in price chart technical analysis.
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Brighton Capital
2 years
Cheaper natural gas = cheaper food, eventually. (3 yrs of nearest Urea contract and prices are back to Sept 2021 levels).
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Brighton Capital
5 months
Anyone who grows feed or food, processes it, or eats it should stop demonizing immigrants and offer constructive solutions. Red Xs are major meat packing plants owned by Hormel and JBS. Over 10K Mexicans (+other Latinos +undereports) live in these three counties.
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Brighton Capital
1 year
Large ponzi scheme in cattle comes to an end. Three suicides and it sounds like Rabobank needs to improve their collateral inspections.
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3 years
@ruralgoneurban @bmreadel @JohnDeere @JDCLASSIC THESE are the people that should be writing wellness/how to be happy books. A long marriage AND they're both able to get up on that tractor at age 90. Pretty impressive hips and knees! ;-)
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Brighton Capital
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Couple of egg factoids: -McDonald's bought 2 billion eggs last yr, all from Cargill -Cargill provided financing to its contract growers to transition to cage-free (article says $850M; that sounds like a lot... maybe an error)
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3 years
I've had it with this halo of "plant-based" as though the incumbent product was made from oil we extracted from the moon. <goes outside to yell at clouds>
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It's a bold strategy, let's see if it pays off for them.
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@FarmPolicy
FarmPolicy
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After the US lost its status as the world’s top #exporter of #crops over the past decade, its #farmers are ready to fight back. The strategy: maximizing #production .
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4 years
Egg market beginning to show cracks.
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3 years
Mosaic (fertilizer) earnings:
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Louis Winthorpe III explaining single product commodity companies, e.g. coal, natural gas or eggs: "One minute they're repossessing your Bentley and the next, boom, you're up $600 million."
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3 years
Corn! Lowest cash price since early April. Livestock producers should be happy. Scratch that. They're never happy. Let's go with less gloomy.
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4 years
@agri_cole @pinchehonkey Does someone walk behind and toss a fish into each hole? ;-)
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Brighton Capital
3 years
Now THIS is a photograph. The only thing that could make it better is Godzilla emerging from the Bay.
@ron_eisele
Ron Eisele
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B-17
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@donpcarr Well, well, well. Turns out the insurance agency is her husband. $56,416.34 in govt welfare. Strange because we constantly heard "South Dakota is open for business" and the insurance industry, including small town agents, didn't suffer at all.
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@GrainSurgeon How do you analyze companies and gather investment funds with that kind of a response? But he's probably laughing all the way to the bank.
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3 years
@Rationalist69 @rljourno If successful, it will become known as "The Grinch close"
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Brighton Capital
4 months
Tough times for traditional biodiesel. Chevron announces closure of 2 of 10 plants in as many days. Tough also for small town locations. Good jobs but the future is renewable biodiesel, often located in/near metro areas with petroleum infrastructure.
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Brighton Capital
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Good advertisement. Funny stereotypes and you don't know what they're selling until the end. P.S. This will play with English subtitles. That's helpful because the characters speak Australian.
@HuinGuillaume
Guillaume Huin
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i've seen crazy ads in my life but NOTHING compares to this.
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3 months
Cocoa is mind boggling. $2700/mt a yr ago and $8500 today. Society doesn't need cocoa like it needs rice, wheat, refined crude oil products and natural gas to function* *might include coffee but sleep, tea, synthetic caffeine and meth are readily available substitutes.
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Brighton Capital
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Sep 24: Despite heat & dryness, Iowa farmers are expected to see good yields and income this year, USDA forecasts show. - Des Moines Register Sep 30: Delta launches first ever direct flight from Mpls to Turks & Caicos, service from Jan 20 to Apr 6. -Star Tribune
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3 years
@CrimeADay I think people forget Mane & Tail, Udderly Smooth, and Bag Balm jumped species years ago. ;-)
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3 years
@SimpleJackCap This one cracked me up. TL;DR. Fools don't know if they're buying Blockbuster or Blackberry.
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2 years
Eggs: New all-time high of $3.88/dozen FOB the farm. In-store price averages about 70 cts/doz higher in normal times, but between promos and cost plus contracts, you might be able to find them cheaper than ~$4.50 doz.
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US bio/renewable diesel, present & projected, is bad policy * produce more edible oil, burn it = price increases * we export less; we don't "Feed the World" like we tell ourselves * we don't cut forests for beans (or palm) but other countries do * biz cannot exist w/o tax $$$
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A history of Chicago Wheat (SRW) implied volatility.
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4 years
Young teacher, blank slate. Quite a photo and quite a life.
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We're doomed.
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2 years
People are funny, continued: Visiting former neighbors in new home. Conversation starts with cheese, somehow moves to Michael Pollan, living conditions of chickens, and then eggs. (Yes!) Both believe white eggs are bleached so they buy brown. <head-slap>
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Food inflation: Hear me now, believe me later. Some items won't see much of a price drop even if lightly processed & underlying commodity tumbles as it has in *wholesale* wheat flour (down 30% from high and 20% yr over yr. Note post-2008 bread. "Never waste a price crisis."
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Farming is a very dangerous occupation. It's up there with fishing and logging for injury and death rates. Unlike those industries, though, in farming a child dies about once every three days. The industry, including @JMManufacturing , needs to do better in their advertising.
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1 year
The national ice cream association has found their star.
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3 months
You think you have a hard time crafting a dating site profile...
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4 years
@MNReformer He's also been suspended, demoted, cost the city at least $75,000 (in 15+ yr ago dollars), gets in bar fights, calls everyone he doesn't like a terrorist, career stalled out, etc etc. Racist. Thug. P.O.S.
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🎵"So we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight I says "Let them truckers roll, 10-4" 🎵
@visegrad24
Visegrád 24
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BREAKING: The Wagner Group has smashed through the first road barriers on the way to Moscow
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Fertilizer: Quarterly avg prices in usd/st as reported by @MosaicCompany . 2021 Q4 = first three Fridays in Oct.
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3 years
Over the last couple of years the skeptics on Ag Twitter have been right about this one.
@isiscarol14
Isis Almeida
3 years
Ag-Tech Startup Indigo Slims Down as CEO Gears for Green Future #ags #carbon #food w/ ⁦ @brebradham
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Tyson Foods' fake nurse is married to the plant manager. That company has a LOT of ethical and governance problems.
@FJ_PORK
FJ_PORK
1 year
A plant nurse at a Tyson Foods medical clinic, Bobbie Gail Blair, 49, has been charged with 10 counts of impersonation of a medical professional and two counts of identity theft after falsely claiming to be licensed.
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The patriarch of Rose Acre farms, 2nd largest egg producer in US, had a colorful mid-life crisis. A red sports car would have been cheaper, because a few yrs later his former wife and children voted their shares in a block and gained control.
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@punished_cait @MickEnglewood Maintenance guy must get his household hints from Peggy Hill.
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@kicksave98 @travisakers The real money came from US taxpayers - student loans for questionable degrees from the online arm of Liberty Univ.
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Want to know how to make money with cruise ships? Fill them with oil.
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These nat gas prices are going to leave a mark on agriculture (fertilizer production, grain drying, ethanol processing), and prices are 5x higher in parts of Europe and Asia. Ouch!
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@_cingraham @natemuzzy He could also afford to hire someone to choose an appropriate shirt for that jacket.
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@Stonekettle @natemuzzy It hurts to see the @USMC flag sold next to confederate and Nazi flags. The military bases named after confederates cannot be renamed soon enough.
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@YellowstoneNPS @ProfSecchi Strap a football to its back, place a female in the end zone, and we have ourselves a football season!
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4 years
@caseadilladilla Dr. Seuss was right! A cow fish from "McElligot's Pool"
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Brighton Capital
3 years
If you're reading this, soybeans have been at this level only five times in your life (2008, 2012, 2013, 2014 and today). 40 cts down? Eh... perspective.
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Brighton Capital
4 years
Warren Buffet is getting into the US grain business (and about 100 other new things) via a stake in Marubeni, owner of Gavilon and Columbia Grain. Already owns Brock grain bins so, snynergy, baby!
@SStapczynski
Stephen Stapczynski
4 years
Warren Buffet bets billions on Japan's trading houses Berkshire Hathaway announced that it has acquired a 5% stake in each of the top traders -- Itochu, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Marubeni and Sumitomo. That's worth ~$6.5 billion Berkshire accumulated the stakes over the last year
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Pigs! If China has lost ~25% will they come to mkt and send pxes soaring? Hell if I know, but if this table is accurate (it doesn't include egg, dairy, goat 😋 or plant protein in the total) they may buy for preference and to keep people content, rather than a protein shortage.
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Brighton Capital
4 years
Just returned from annual pilgrimage to dept store perfume counter. Reminded again that in price per ml, HP ink has only one worthy competitor. Also, I allowed myself to get upsold via GWP trickery and an attractive sales associate (see Clark Griswold/Christmas vacation).
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