ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service |
Heifer
Project International 1015 Louisiana Street PO Box 8058 Little Rock, AR 72203 Phone: (800) 422-0474 E-mail: info@heifer.org http://www.heifer.org/ |
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/pasturedpoultry.pdf 34 pages 3,766 kb |
The headquarters is located in Little Rock, AR. |
NCAT
is a nonprofit organization with offices at Butte, MT and Fayetteville,
AR, which manages a host of public programs dealing with sustainable
agriculture, along with energy conservation, low-income energy
and housing issues, and sustainable community development. NCAT's
role through its projects is to improve the economic well-being
and quality of life of urban and rural residents,
all the while working to improve the environment and conserve America's natural resources. |
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This booklet summarizes the experiences of 35 Southern farm families who from 1996-1999 participated in a project titled "Integrating Pastured Poultry into the Farming Systems of Limited Resource Farmers." The experience proved favorable for 27 of the project families who continue to raise range poultry for home-use and for sale to growing customer bases. We hope this booklet will prove useful as a decision-making guide for other farmers interested in adding diversity and improving profits in their own agricultural enterprises through pastured poultry production. |
Other people, organizations and agencies who made special contributions
to the project are the
National Center for Agricultural Law Research and Information,
Extension agents and staff of Tuskegee
University, Southern
University, Kentucky
State University, South
Carolina State University, Florida
A&M University, and
Fort Valley State University; members of
the American
Pastured Poultry Producers Association; and the Joel Salatin
family of Swoope, VA.
We thank those individuals who were so generous in sharing photographs and slides they snapped during field days, trainings and activities on their farms. Their work helps greatly to tell the pastured poultry story and appears throughout this booklet.