Project Overview

FS03-173

Project Type: Farmer/Rancher

Funds awarded in 2003: $15,000.00

Projected End Date: 12/31/2005

Region: Southern

State: Virginia

Principal Investigator:

Marilyn Sanford

Mid-Atlantic Meat Goat & Lamb Marketing Cooperativ

Pasture-based Goat and Sheep Producer to Processor Transfer Station Project

Annual Reports

2003 annual report

Commodities

Agronomic: grass (misc. perennial), hay

Animals: goats, sheep

Practices

Animal Production: free-range, feed/forage

Crop Production: continuous cropping

Education and Training: extension, farmer to farmer, on-farm/ranch research

Farm Business Management: new enterprise development, cooperatives, budgets/cost and returns, marketing management, feasibility study, agricultural finance, market study, risk management

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