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Pastured Poultry Talk

Mike Badger dives into the the production, the processing, the marketing, and the business of farming pasture-raised poultry. Pastured Poultry Talk is THE podcast where raising chickens, turkeys, and... Read more

Ranked #1

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PPT062: Joel Salatin talks about the marketing and business of craft foods

PPT062: Joel Salatin talks about the marketing and business of craft foods

Joel Salatin joins the show and we use his recent book Your Successful Farm Business (Amazon) as the back drop to the co... Read more

8 Dec 2017

44mins

Ranked #2

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PPT035: What Are the Weaknesses of Pastured Poultry?

PPT035: What Are the Weaknesses of Pastured Poultry?

Terrell Spencer joins Mike as a guest host. Fresh off an APPPA related trip to the Mother Earth News Fair in Belton, Tex... Read more

4 Mar 2016

47mins

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PPT081: Backyard Chicken Business with Lauryn Salatin

PPT081: Backyard Chicken Business with Lauryn Salatin

Chick farmer Lauryn Salatin joins the podcast to discuss her backyard chicken business. She buys chicks from Murray McMu... Read more

16 Feb 2019

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Buying Ready-to-Lay Pullets and Understanding the Competitive Advantages and Opportunities for Pastured Egg Flocks

Buying Ready-to-Lay Pullets and Understanding the Competitive Advantages and Opportunities for Pastured Egg Flocks

Ready-to-lay pullets, sometimes called point-of-lay, are one of the pastured egg farmers best competitive advantages. Bu... Read more

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Doing the pasture-raised broiler side hustle in rural Kansas with Garoleen Wilson

Doing the pasture-raised broiler side hustle in rural Kansas with Garoleen Wilson

Correction: In the podcast episode, I  state Garoleen is producing 7,000 broilers. That was an error in my interpretatio... Read more

16 Jul 2019

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How to avoid being a dangerous chicken breeder

Dangerous breeders are everywhere and the internet gives them a platform to perpetuate bad breeding habits at the expens... Read more

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How to calculate the margins of a pasture-raised broiler business

How to calculate the margins of a pasture-raised broiler business

Episode 70. Beginning pastured poultry farmers have a common question: "What are the margins in raising pastured poultry... Read more

22 Jun 2018

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PPT094: What podcasting teaches us about marketing pastured poultry

PPT094: What podcasting teaches us about marketing pastured poultry

It's no surprise that I'm hot on the  podcasting medium. Pastured Poultry Talk is a podcast, after all. In Episode 93 of... Read more

28 Aug 2019

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PPT034: Author Rebecca Thistlethwaite Discusses Producing and Marketing Ethical Meats

PPT034: Author Rebecca Thistlethwaite Discusses Producing and Marketing Ethical Meats

Rebbeca Thistlethwaite and her co-author and husband Jim Dunlop wrote the book The New Livestock Farmer: The Business of... Read more

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PPT033: UC Davis Builds an Egg Mobile and Joins the Pastured Poultry Community

PPT033: UC Davis Builds an Egg Mobile and Joins the Pastured Poultry Community

Members of the UC Davis pastured poultry research farm join the podcast to tell us about their project. Mike is joined b... Read more

1 Feb 2016

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Troubleshooting Chicken Health Problems During Processing

Troubleshooting Chicken Health Problems During Processing

[caption id="attachment_1113" align="alignright" width="300"] Plucked chickens ready to be examined along with healthy h... Read more

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PPT058: Interview with Charlotte Smith | Building Relationships with Farm Marketing from the Heart

PPT058: Interview with Charlotte Smith | Building Relationships with Farm Marketing from the Heart

Farmer, marketer, and author Charlotte Smith joins the podcast to talk about relationship marketing, or as she puts it, ... Read more

29 Sep 2017

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PPT075: Bringing Ready-to-Lay Pullets onto Your Farm

PPT075: Bringing Ready-to-Lay Pullets onto Your Farm

Ready-to-Lay pullets, also called started pullets, are an economical way for pastured poultry producers and family egg f... Read more

10 Oct 2018

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PPT057: Interview with a USDA Scientist About Pastured Poultry Food Safety and (non)Pathogenic Bacteria

PPT057: Interview with a USDA Scientist About Pastured Poultry Food Safety and (non)Pathogenic Bacteria

Dr. Michael Rothrock of USDA joins the show to discuss bacteria on pastured poultry. He overviews his research into the ... Read more

22 Sep 2017

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PPT090: Is it time for pastured poultry to slaughter some sacred cows?

PPT090: Is it time for pastured poultry to slaughter some sacred cows?

In the week or so preceding this episode, Polyface announced it was slaughtering one of its sacred cows. They were going... Read more

17 Jul 2019

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PPT031: Mark Kastel of Cornucopia Institute discusses organic egg production

PPT031: Mark Kastel of Cornucopia Institute discusses organic egg production

Mike interviews Mark Kastel of Cornucopia Institute to discuss the Institute's report "Scrambled Eggs: Separating Factor... Read more

4 Jan 2016

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The Fighting Farmer Takes on Fake Organic

The Fighting Farmer Takes on Fake Organic

Certified organic is a systems based certification; it doesn't actually certify the product through testing. As a produc... Read more

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PPT080: Selling Duck Eggs with Travis Salatin

PPT080: Selling Duck Eggs with Travis Salatin

In this Kids in Commerce episode, Travis Salatin of Polyface discusses his Khaki Campbell duck business. Travis' advice ... Read more

15 Feb 2019

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Cracking the performance problems of soy-free poultry feeds with Fertrell

Cracking the performance problems of soy-free poultry feeds with Fertrell

Episode 72 takes on the soy-free poultry feed for your chickens, ducks, and turkeys. Up to this point, if you’ve fed soy... Read more

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Advantages and cost analysis of on-farm chicken processing

Advantages and cost analysis of on-farm chicken processing

On-farm chicken and turkey processing holds a special place in my heart. It paid the mortgage. It introduced us to great... Read more

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