Blake Farmer
speaker
64 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard yesterday
Blake Farmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The reality is that this decades old flame has been fanned by a strong tailwind in the poultry business.
Chicken chains of all kinds have been growing as appetites prioritize protein.
Wing Stop alone added nearly four hundred locations last year.
Compared to beef and pork, chicken's still a bargain.
Professor Jada Thompson studies poultry markets at the University of Arkansas, which sits at the heart of the country's chicken farming business.
The growth in fast food chicken has made poultry one of the few agricultural sectors where farms are being added every year.
As for Nashville Hot, Thompson says it's got staying power.
You can always
Forgettable experience, go for Spice Level 5, Poultry Geist.
In Nashville, I'm Blake Farmer for Marketplace.
Counting beats and calling moves as hundreds follow his lead was not the plan.
Until a few years ago, Justin Lee Williams had never line danced.
He grew up in rural Tennessee, but real estate was the dream.
My whole plan was, I was like, I'm going to be able to find people that want land, you know, like five, ten plus acres.
He started a company called Tennessee Backroad.
Just about the time he was ready to go full-time in 2020, so was everybody else.
The COVID broker boom made it harder to be a newcomer, so he took a part-time job.
managing a big boot store.
Then one day a customer asked if he'd ever want to help teach line dancing because Williams had the look, hat, boots, buckle.
He was only one step ahead of the students, but he kept at it and got better.
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