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PPT30: Cooking, Eating, and Winter Marketing Frozen Birds

In a post-Thanksgiving turkey love feast, Mike (www.millsidefarm.com) and Grady (www.gradyphelan.com) discuss cooking techniques including splatchcock and chicken ballotine preparations.  Cooking and eating your product makes for great marketing stories. We transition to winter marketing, and we tackle the frozen chicken stigma, especially when dealing with chefs.  Send your questions to pasturedpoultrytalk@gmail.com and don’t forget to share this…

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PPT029: Growing Into a Farm with John Suscovich

What makes a guy quit his New York City job on the Howard Stern show, sell everything he owns to bicycle across the US, and thenĀ start his mid-life farming career. That’s the summary of John Suscovich’s self-described quarter-life crisis. John is theĀ Farm Manager at Camp Roads Farm in Connecticut and host of the Growing Farms…

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PPT028: How to Set Broiler Prices That Show a Profit

In episode 12 of Pastured Poultry Talk, Grady (gradyphelan.com) and Mike (millsidefarm.com) used a profit of $5 per bird to calculate the paypack on equipment purchases, particularly pasture shelters. In this episode, we walk you through the “how to price your pastured poultry” to determine what you need to charge in order to realize a…

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