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Saturday March 13
Over 200 poultry lovers flocked to Cornell University for “Poultry School for Small Farms,” an event sponsored by Cornell, Cornerstone Farm Ventures and Central New York RC&D.
Brian Snyder, executive director of PASA, led us off with a presentation about food sheds. He also discussed his work with the food alliance, a 3rd party certification program for farmers to help market their products.
The BBQ chicken lunch was just the right thing to get us all thinking about the coming growing season. The participants were offered a variety of choices for the classes. They could choose which area they wanted to focus on: marketing, business planning, processing chickens, organic policy, or poultry health; everything from broilers to layers, commercial to heritage breeds. As a result of this conference, many producers commented that they would be making a few improvements to their operations. Others commented that this Poultry School was just what they needed to get started.
Tro Bui, Phil Metzger, Kim Totten, Peg and Jim McLaughlin
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