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Host of Pastured Poultry Talk podcast.

PPT034: Author Rebecca Thistlethwaite Discusses Producing and Marketing Ethical Meats

Rebbeca Thistlethwaite and her co-author and husband Jim Dunlop wrote the book The New Livestock Farmer: The Business of Raising and Selling Ethical Meats and the author of Farms of the Future. Between them, they have a diverse livestock, orchard, and vegetable farming history. Their pastured poultry production includes layers (flocks as large as 5,000), broilers (up…

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PPT021: Evaluating Pastured Poultry Enterprises: It’s OK to Quit

For the first time in public, Mike (millsidefarm.com) announces that he is retiring the mobile processing service. That sparks a conversation between Grady and Mike on enterprise analysis in general. Grady draws on his Ranching For Profits education while Mike draws on a transformational concept of “quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers,” Seth…

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PPT023: Lessons on Building an Inspected Poultry Processing Plant

Cobb Creek’s Texas inspected poultry processing facility is now open and processing birds. In this episode, Grady talks us through some of the things he learned and let’s us know how he’s setup. We talk about flow, bacteria, HAACP, food safety and much more. Check them out at www.cobbcreekfarm.com. Send us your feedback and questions…

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