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Host of Pastured Poultry Talk podcast.

PPT022: The Fall Bird Flu Season is Upon Us and an Update on Inspected Processing

Grady and Mike discuss the USDA’s Fall 2015 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Preparedness and Response Plan. The plan mandates a 24 hour depopulation requirement from the time the flock tests positive, and it authorizes ventilation shutdown as a way to suffocate and kill the surviving birds in the barn. We then spend some time talking…

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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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PPT020: Selling Eggs at Market

A listener asks about the regulations of selling eggs at market. It’s different by state of course, but we cover the hightlights of what’s required in the context of Oklahoma, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Important questions arise from this discussion, such as “will your market support your expected volume of egg sales and exactly how clear…

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