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Travis Bybee spent 25 years in banking, all while quietly building toward the life he actually wanted. He bought his first piece of land right out of college and spent the next two decades accumulating 1,400 acres, farming until dark after every shift, with one goal in mind: becoming a full-time farmer. The missing piece turned out to be eggs.

In this episode, Greg sits down with Travis to talk about how a chance meeting as a banker—not a farmer—sparked the idea for a layer operation unlike anything his neighbors had seen, and how he used everything he learned financing other people’s farms to build his own.

Here’s what we discuss with Travis:

• How Travis used 25 years of ag lending to design a better barn than the farmers he was financing
• Why eggs were the final puzzle piece that made full-time farming financially viable
• The year of research, 40 to 50 barn visits, and hundreds of YouTube videos before breaking ground
• Why he GC’d the entire construction himself — and how stressful that actually was
• What drew farmers from eight different states to pull into his driveway during construction
• The open house that drew over 1,000 people before a single bird arrived
• What a day in the life looks like running two 50,000-bird barns alongside a cattle and hay operation
• Faith, family, and farm — and what it means to build a life around all three

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