Skip the Butcher: Farmers & Homesteaders Invited to Learn Poultry Processing on the Farm
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Future Harvest - CASA
Oct 2, 2012, 9:05:32 AM10/2/12
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Skip the Butcher: Farmers & Homesteaders Invited to Learn Poultry
Processing on the Farm
MILLHEIM, PA. September 20, 2012 Join the Pennsylvania Association for
Sustainable Agriculture (PASA), on Monday, October 8th at Lady Bug
Farm in Punxsutawney, Jefferson County for a Farm-Based Education
(FBE) hands-on Field Day on poultry processing, health and nutrition.
In this Field Day, “Hands-on Poultry Processing: Health, Nutrition &
Regulations”, participants will watch a processing demonstration with
Mike and Christie Badger of the American Pastured Poultry Producers
Assocation (APPPA). They will then practice processing birds
themselves using the Badgers' mobile processing unit (MPU), an open
trailer that contains all the equipment necessary to process poultry
from start to finish.
Jeff Mattocks of The Fertrell Company and Susan Beal, DVM will join us
to talk broiler (meat birds) management, including housing options,
pasturing, nutrition and animal health. Recently, the USDA Food Safety
Inspection Service (FSIS) has made attempts to more clearly define
what a producer needs to do to qualify for an exemption from
inspection. Brian Moyer of PSU Extension will lead a discussion to
help us understand the requirements and how to qualify for exemptions.
Participants will take home the recently updated Farmer’s Guide to
Processing and Selling Meat or Poultry.
“Poultry can be an interesting and nutrient cycle completing component
of the farm system providing fertility, income, food and insect
control,” states Tom Lisak of Lady Bug Farm. “On-farm processing need
not be a daunting task; the methods learned here can be tweaked for
each individual’s needs.”
This event is held in partnership with The Fertrell Company and funded
in part by the PA Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative. To learn more
and register for this event and others, visit pasafarming.org/
FarmBasedEducation.
PASA strives to ensure all those interested in becoming a member of
the organization or attending an event can do so at a reasonable rate.
PASA is offering a new member special combo deal. Membership in the
organization, combined with a Field Day registration -- an $80 value
-- is being offered for $45. To access this special combination rate,
and review the remaining Field Days planned for this year, visit
pasafarming.org/FarmBasedEducation or call 814-349-9856. This special
rate gains attendees access to a quality educational program, a
delicious locally sourced lunch, all of the benefits of membership,
and access to PASA’s growing network.
Processing on the Farm
MILLHEIM, PA. September 20, 2012 Join the Pennsylvania Association for
Sustainable Agriculture (PASA), on Monday, October 8th at Lady Bug
Farm in Punxsutawney, Jefferson County for a Farm-Based Education
(FBE) hands-on Field Day on poultry processing, health and nutrition.
In this Field Day, “Hands-on Poultry Processing: Health, Nutrition &
Regulations”, participants will watch a processing demonstration with
Mike and Christie Badger of the American Pastured Poultry Producers
Assocation (APPPA). They will then practice processing birds
themselves using the Badgers' mobile processing unit (MPU), an open
trailer that contains all the equipment necessary to process poultry
from start to finish.
Jeff Mattocks of The Fertrell Company and Susan Beal, DVM will join us
to talk broiler (meat birds) management, including housing options,
pasturing, nutrition and animal health. Recently, the USDA Food Safety
Inspection Service (FSIS) has made attempts to more clearly define
what a producer needs to do to qualify for an exemption from
inspection. Brian Moyer of PSU Extension will lead a discussion to
help us understand the requirements and how to qualify for exemptions.
Participants will take home the recently updated Farmer’s Guide to
Processing and Selling Meat or Poultry.
“Poultry can be an interesting and nutrient cycle completing component
of the farm system providing fertility, income, food and insect
control,” states Tom Lisak of Lady Bug Farm. “On-farm processing need
not be a daunting task; the methods learned here can be tweaked for
each individual’s needs.”
This event is held in partnership with The Fertrell Company and funded
in part by the PA Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative. To learn more
and register for this event and others, visit pasafarming.org/
FarmBasedEducation.
PASA strives to ensure all those interested in becoming a member of
the organization or attending an event can do so at a reasonable rate.
PASA is offering a new member special combo deal. Membership in the
organization, combined with a Field Day registration -- an $80 value
-- is being offered for $45. To access this special combination rate,
and review the remaining Field Days planned for this year, visit
pasafarming.org/FarmBasedEducation or call 814-349-9856. This special
rate gains attendees access to a quality educational program, a
delicious locally sourced lunch, all of the benefits of membership,
and access to PASA’s growing network.
Deirdre Smith
Oct 2, 2012, 12:02:10 PM10/2/12
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This is incredible. Can we get a workshop like this (and the one today on portable fencing) around here???
Deirdre
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Renee Catacalos
Oct 2, 2012, 12:55:22 PM10/2/12
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Hi Deirdre,
For the second year, we will have a mobile poultry processing unit demonstration as a pre-conference workshop at our annual conference, coming up on January 18 & 19, 2013. Everyone who participates will process a bird themselves. We are also going to have a couple of other sessions on poultry throughout the conference that will cover some of these field day topics.
Renee
Deirdre Smith
Oct 2, 2012, 1:02:04 PM10/2/12
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Great. Thank you and I will check it out.
Deirdre
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