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SUMMARY:Postponed until Spring 2024 - Pastured Poultry Workshop & Broiler Farm Tour
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URL:http://allegany.cce.cornell.edu/events/2023/08/24/postponed-until-spring-2024-pastured-poultry-workshop-broiler-farm-tour
DESCRIPTION: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 TourFood Safety/Processing Equipment reviewCut-up/Value Added demo and hands-on activityCost of production - “The Price is Right” activityThere 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/BroilerHLWMonday, 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/BroilerMajesticWednesday, 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/BroilerVirtualThe 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.
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