Project Type: Partnership
Funds awarded in 2017: $14,326.00
Projected End Date: 04/15/2020
Grant Recipient:
Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
Region: Northeast
State: Pennsylvania
Project Leader:
Dr. Franklin Egan
Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
Description:
A spreadsheet tool that farmers can use to calculate benchmarks for land and feed efficiency for grass-finished beef, grass-finished sheep, pastured pigs, pastured broilers, and pastured turkeys. Farmers can compare numbers from their farms to peer benchmarks and share their responses with PASA Sustainable agriculture as part of a collaborative research project.
Type:
Decision-making Tool
File:
Download file (XLSX)
Target audiences:
Farmers/Ranchers; Educators; Researchers
This product is associated with the project "Community benchmarks for productivity and profitability for diversified pastured livestock farmers"
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