In this episode, Margo Hale, NCAT's Southeast Regional Director, has a conversation with farmer Terrell "Spence" Spencer about his poultry-processing facility.
Margo is a livestock specialist with NCAT's ATTRA sustainable-agriculture program at NCAT's Southeast office in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Spence is a pastured-poultry producer in northwest Arkansas, raising nearly 12,000 broilers on pasture each year. He shares the challenges he has faced in regard to finding a reliable processor for his chickens and how that led to him opening a poultry-processing facility.
For more information on this topic, you can contact Margo Hale directly at margoh@ncat.org
Resources Mentioned in the Podcast
Across the Creek Farm Facebook page
American Pastured Poultry Producers Association website
You also can find Spence's podcast, The Fighting Farmer, on your favorite podcast app/service.
Related ATTRA Resources:
Small Poultry Processing Plants and Services
Small-Scale Poultry Processing
Poultry Processing
Veteran Resources
Please call ATTRA with any and all of your sustainable agriculture questions at 1-800-346-9140 or e-mail us at askanag@ncat.org. Our two dozen specialists can help you with a vast array of topics, everything from farm planning to pest management, from produce to livestock, and soils to aquaculture.
You can get in touch with NCAT/ATTRA specialists and find our other extensive, and free, sustainable-agriculture publications, webinars, videos and other resources at NCAT/ATTRA's website.
You also can stay in touch with NCAT at its Facebook page.
Also check out NCAT's Regional Offices' websites and Facebook Pages!
Southwest Regional Office: Website / Facebook
Western Regional Office: Website / Facebook
Rocky Mountain West Regional Office: Facebook
Gulf States Regional Office: Website / Facebook
Southeast Regional Office: Website / Facebook
Northeast Regional Office: Website / Facebook
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