Cody Hopkins of Grassroots Farmer Cooperative and Falling Sky Farm joins Mike Badger and Grady Phelan to talk about the power of farming friends.  In it’s second year of operation, the cooperative expects to market 70,000 broilers, 2,000 broilers, 400 hogs, and 60 head of beef. Cody and his wife Andrea are first generation farmers who…

Grady opens his Texas slaughter house for business, and he’s looking for a new apprentice. Apprentices, can go to eagerfarmer.com. Mike’s been processing with a group of chefs-in-training at a local-to-him college. So it seems appropriate to spend time answering some really great processing questions from the Pastured Poultry Talk audience. Do you put anything…

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…