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

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

Annual Reports

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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