Here is a fun fact: Jaindl turkeys are available in Japan.

In a talk given to the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce, David Jaindl, scion of the family's agriculture and land development businesses, told community leaders the company's smaller birds, weighing in at about 6 pounds, are available in food markets in Tokyo.

Jaindl offered a family anecdote as proof.

A friend of the family who married and moved to Japan got in touch after she saw a Jaindl turkey in her local grocery store, more than 6,500 miles away from the Pennsylvania home she grew up in next door to the Jaindl farm.

The tiny turkey, preferred in Japan for its compact size, cost fowl connoisseurs approximately $6 a pound, Jaindl said.

And then, there was the thing with a king.

A special request came to the turkey purveyors for 12 hens for Abdullah II of Jordan.

The 20-pound turkeys, often misidentified as flightless fowl, were flown to the Middle East.

Jaindl peppered his talk to the Chamber membership with tales of the early days of the farm through acquisitions of another stalwart of local agriculture, Schantz Orchards in 1987, to the company's inroads into land development, including updating members on planned warehouse facilties in Lower Macungie Township.

"That is the market," Jaindl said, of the warehouses set to come to Lower Macungie Township. Distribution facilities are needed, Jaindl said.

Jessica O'Donnell, affiliated chambers administrator with the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce, said the larger-than-usual turn out for the monthly meeting, including Lehigh County Executive Tom Muller, was due to Jaindl's presentation.

"He has a following," O'Donnell said.

Jaindl future plans include an increased presence in real estate.

Noting the dwindling availability of land to develop, Jaindl said ownership of buildings, such as office and small industrial facilities, may be in the near future for the family-run business.

The Jaindl name will remain tied to farming and agriculture, especially turkey farming, while increasing the family presence in land and real estate.