Project Overview
FNC99-268
Project Type: Farmer/Rancher
Funds awarded in 1999: $4,180.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/1999
Region: North Central
State: Michigan
Project Coordinator:
Jack Knorek
Oak Moon Farm
Commodities
- Animals: poultry
Practices
- Education and Training: demonstration
- Farm Business Management: marketing management
Summary:
To maintain profitability, sustainable agricultural operations must reduce production costs and increase net income.
Objective: To increase the profitability of raising pastured poultry by constructing a trailer-mounted processing unit to be managed by either an individual family farm or within a farming cooperative.
The producer renovated a secondhand trailer with steel and expanded mesh. A secondhand scalder and new feather plucker were added to the processing unit.
Results: The project could not be completed due to state guidelines.
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