 The Bates Farm services customers from a wide range of locations, including many that are far-flung, including California, Oregon, and Alaska.Because it is cheaper to raise turkeys in the Mid-West, nearer where the grain they eat is grown, other turkey farms in the state have gone out of business, leaving Bates as the sole remaining in Alabama, which once had 150 turkey growers.Turkey prices are highly dependent on feed costs—in 2011 Bates had to double his prices after corn got more expensive.