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Spotlight : Ben & Tonya Moyer

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Moyers’ Poultry Barns

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With more than 19 years of experience, Ben Moyer has always had a knack for growing mums and pumpkins on his family farm — Moyers Mum Farm. In 2006, Ben Moyer took over his family’s farm and focused on growing mums and pumpkins that are unique in shape, size and color. In 2010, Ben and his wife, Tonya, started expanding and increasing the family business into both a mum farm and a poultry farm. We caught up with Ben to learn more about their recent expansion and what it means to them to Work Smart, Live Happy in Pennsylvania.

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My dad first built two poultry barns on the farm in 2004 and then in 2014 he decided to slow down and built one chicken house on an adjacent farm. At that time, he sold the existing farm and chicken houses to my wife and I. From that point on, Tonya and I had plans to continue expanding the farm.

 

Our most recent expansion was for our poultry farm. With the recent Bell & Evans plant expansion announcement, we wanted to add two more poultry barns to increase the amount of chickens we raise for the company. Bell & Evans is estimating that it will need to increase its breeder farms and farms where chickens are raised by 250 percent to support its new harvesting plant. Our expansion was a result of their expansion – a downstream effect of developments.

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