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Postponed until Spring 2024 - Pastured Poultry Workshop & Broiler Farm Tour

• Thursday, August 24, 2023, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Please join us for the afternoon to learn about broiler production opportunities for small farms. Our host site will be Sunny Cove Farm in Alfred Station.

Tentative Agenda:

• Production Overview & Farm Tour
• Food Safety/Processing Equipment review
• Cut-up/Value Added demo and hands-on activity
• Cost of production - “The Price is Right” activity

There is no cost to attended, however pre-registration is requested by August 21st to assist with planning. Please contact Lynn Bliven for more details or register here: https://tinyurl.com/BroilerSunnyCove.

This is 1 of 5 workshops (four in-person and one virtual), in-person workshops are being hosted by broiler farmers across the state. Each farm has been selected to showcase their unique ways of raising and/or processing broiler chickens.

Additional workshop dates:

Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 1pm – 4pm at HLW Acres in Attica, NY - Hermann and Laura Weber run a 5A Small Enterprise poultry processing facility in addition to raising their own broilers. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/BroilerHLW

Monday, August 28, 2023, 2pm – 5pm at Laughing Earth Farm in Cropseyville, NY - Annie and her team run a 5A processing facility and 20C kitchen for their own farm's use, which allows them to process over 1,000 broilers a year and gives them the capacity to make value-added products like sausages and stock. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/BroilerLaughingEarth

Tuesday, August 29, 12pm – 3pm at Majestic Farm in Mountaindale, NY -  Brett raises slow-growth broilers and takes them to outside processors prior to sale as whole birds, pieces, and chicken sausage. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/BroilerMajestic

Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 6:30pm – 8pm Virtual workshop over Zoom - Learn the ins and outs of setting up your processing equipment, processing chickens, adding value through cuts, and pricing your chicken to make a profit! Register here: https://tinyurl.com/BroilerVirtual

The same information will be shared at each of the in-person workshops, while showcasing the specialty of each host farm. We will not be processing broilers at these workshops, though we will have the opportunity to tour each farm’s rearing and processing set-ups, get hands-on experience cutting up a whole chicken into retail cuts, and critically evaluating costs of raising broilers on pasture in New York State. The virtual webinar will review processing equipment, chicken processing, adding value through cuts, and pricing chicken to earn a profit. Video demonstrations will accompany the lecture portions of the virtual field day.

All who are interested in raising or are currently raising poultry for meat are welcome to register for these free events. Feel free to register for more than one event, though you will need to register for each event separately. Pre-registrations are required and can be made by visiting the links that follow each program description above or by contacting Kelly at 585-268-7644 ext 10 or klb288@cornell.edu. The webinar will be recorded and sent to all registrants for future viewing.

Please bring your questions. We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

These programs are provided free of charge thanks to work supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, through the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program under subaward number LNE22-435.

Location

Sunny Cove Farm
1444 Randolph Road
Alfred Station, NY 14803

Last updated August 23, 2023