MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Mike Carnes worked for Monsanto five years before, in 1981, he built four breeder houses with his wife, Regina, in the Horton community of Alabama.
“Luckily, the plant shut down, and I was able to start farming full time,” Carnes said. “To look back and think about what all we’ve been through and how we got to where we are now is really something.”
Now full-fledged pullet producers for Koch Foods of Gadsden with nine houses in operation, the Marshall County natives were recently honored at Alabama Poultry and Egg Association’s annual Evening of Fun. . .