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Title: CowAHen Farm We use Herbivores not Herbicides


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Cow-A-Hen FarmWe use Herbivores not Herbicides
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The Natural Way
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Cow-A-Hen Acreage
  • Located in Mifflinburg, PA in Union County
  • 100 Total Acres
  • 50 Acres Pastured
  • 50 Acres Certified Tree Farm

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Owner/Operator
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Cow-A-Hen Production
  • Grass Fed Livestock
  • Suckled Veal
  • Beef
  • Pork
  • Chickens
  • Turkeys

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Suckled Veal
  • Fed Milk Replacer or Grafted to Milk Cows
  • Free Choice Pasture
  • Dairy Bull Calves
  • Ideally Slaughtered at 12 Weeks
  • Meat Red not Anemic White

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Beef Its Whats for Dinner
  • Grass Fed Lean Beef
  • Dairy Bull Crosses
  • Jersey X Holstien
  • Jersey X Hereford

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Pork
  • Buys Feeders
  • If you raise pigs on pasture ring their noses
  • Breeds of Pigs
  • Yorkshire
  • Berkshire

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Broiler Chickens
  • Bought as laying pullets
  • 8 week growing season
  • Sold whole, freshly slaughtered that morning
  • Pasture raised in chicken tractors with
    supplementary grain

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Turkeys
  • Bought as pullets
  • Raised for Thanksgiving
  • After youve eaten a bronze breasted turkey
    youll never go back to Butterball
  • Heritage Breeds
  • Bourbon Reds

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MarketingSell it before you grow it
  • I sell what my customers want, my customer drive
    what I produce and sell
  • Direct Markets/ Farmers Markets
  • Boalsburg
  • Millheim
  • Ards Farm Market

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Bills Philosophy on Sustainable Agriculture
  • The large feedlots and 500 footers are what
    makes me money, because without them Im nothing
    but a commodity producer
  • Sustainable Agriculture has to be economically
    viable, environmentally sound, and should be
    locally based
  • Its all about perception and presentation
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