Mobile Poultry Processing Unit Planning Meeting

Research Services Bldg. Room 130

OARDC Wooster Campus

Work is progressing to develop an ODA approved mobile poultry processing unit. A large working group has met several times to brainstorm how a mobile unit and management system could be implemented. We toured the mobile unit that has just been built in Galion, Ohio, that will be shipped to the state of Vermont.

Greetings,

   This is a revision, in response to the very helpful comments on the proposal in the blog entitled, "Providing Infrastructure for Farmers in Appalachian Ohio to Meet the Demand for Locally Procured Staple Foods".

   Once again, comments are welcome.

Our 2007 NCR-SARE farmer grant to test various staple crops in Appalachian Ohio, has garnered considerable interest in locally procured staple foods among food outlets and consumers, and several new and seasoned farmers are eager to form a staple growers’ cooperative.

        Our 2007 NCR-SARE farmer grant to test various staple crops in Appalachian Ohio, has garnered considerable interest in locally procured staple foods among food outlets and consumers, and several new and seasoned farmers are eager to form a staple growers’ cooperative.

On May 31 a meeting of folks devoted to the growth of Value Added Dairy in Ohio took place at OARDC in Wooster to determine resources, network and support the development of established and up and coming VAD producers. This project is volunteer driven and an initiative of the Leap Into Local Foods Workshop of the Ohio Local Food Systems Collaborative.

The purpose of the workshop was to:
•Share experiences.
•Identify efforts underway that show promise.
•Develop, target and commit to advance specific innovative solutions

September 5, 2008 Wall Street Journal has article about a "slaughterhouse on wheels" on Lopez Island, Washington.  The farmers formed the Island Grown Farmers Cooperative to manage the abattoir. This mobile abattoir opened custom butching options to the small and local farms.  It is the first mobile slaughterhouse to sanctioned by USDA.  The unit handles sheep, pigs and beef.  A diesel truck pulls 8 by 12 foot trailer fitted with sink, water tank and cooling locker.  The trailer is used 3 to 4 times a week with a butcher and inspector.  It is bringing the infrastruc

There will be a Pasture Poultry Workshop on October 11, 2008 at Fisher Auditorium on OARDC campus, Wooster, Ohio in the morning. For more information, contact John Anderson at OARDC.   His email address is anderson.37@osu.edu or phone number is 330.263.3753.

We recently posted this as a question, but have decided to repost as a new message...  We are working on a proposal for the Stinner Endowment.
The project is fairly broad, covering several social issues, and, appropriately, seeking funding from a wide range of sources, and collaboration from a wide-ranging network.
  Here’s the synopsis, after which I will write the question we have for everybody to give input on:

Hello,
 
We are working on a proposal for the Stinner Endowment.
   
The project is fairly broad, covering several social issues, and, appropriately, seeking funding from a wide range of sources, and collaboration from a wide-ranging network.
  Here’s the synopsis, after which I will write the question we have for everybody to give input on:

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Question: How to answer the Stinner Endowment Grant about leveraging funds.

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Question: Who are the stakeholders?
Question: What are the resources you need for County farming for food insecure idea?

Hi Everyone,

I'm posting this to the main group as well as some other group that might have interest in increasing edible perennial production in the region. 

Henry and Iva Miller's farm at TR 110, Millersburg, Ohio will host the 4th Family Farm Field Day in Holmes County, Ohio. The focus of the field day is to provide an educatinal format for grass-based agriculture; suppporting low energy and non-industrial way of farming; promoting living skills for families in healthy and economical way; and builidng morale and enthusiasm in the farming community.

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Message entry: Columbus Ohio Public Health Farmers Market

Context: Local foods producers often find themselves producing/processing food to fill un-serviced voids and needs, which often requires specialty equipment. The post that this poll links to discusses the possibility of creating a site that will allow users to post listings of specialty equipment, and rank and give feedback, adn genrally co-analyze the market and prices for this equipment. The goal is to getr a better idea about what is a fair market price, what is the availablity, etc

Proposal:

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Question: Would a rating system work to get feedback on equipment prices?

At the recent value-added dairy processing group meeting, a request was made for an anonymous way to compare used equipment prices. Small-scale processing equipment apparently can be difficult to come by and once found it's hard to know what a reasonable or going price is because so few sales are being made. Our site administrator is working on adding a rating tool to the site for things like proposals and ideas, much like the 1 to 5 star ratings that you are asked to give on travel websites. ...

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Poll: voting for, or against a number of choices: Would you like to see the creation of a new site for evaluating/rating market prices for specialty food processing equipment

The processor data that is available through Market Maker, according to Julie Fox, was provided by InfoUSA (who it seems gather their information from the Yellow Pages).

The data used by Fred Hitzhusen and his team is from the Harris Ohio Industrial Directory. I attach their report "Assessing Ohio's Biomass Resources for Energy Potential Using GIS", which presents some maps regarding the distribution of processors in Ohio (starting on page 75). They plan to make their data publicly available after publishing their current work.

After we discussed data requirements during our conference call on Friday, I happened to meet Julie Fox and used the opportunity to ask her about data availability on Market Maker. I performed a search on Market Maker and came up with the following numbers (processors in Ohio by category): Bakery Products: 1072 Beverages: 243 Dairy Products: 261 Fats and Oils: 15

The Strategy Session will be held at the OARDC Wooster Campus in room 130 of the Research Services Building. We hope to share experiences of established and up and coming VAD producers, identify needs to stimulate the growth for value added dairy in Ohio, network and sample some Ohio cheeses. Questions? Contact Abbe Turner at luckypennyfarm@verizon.net, phone (330) 527-0548 or Brian Schlatter at cjcheese07@yahoo.com, phone (419)399-2350. We hope you can join us-Abbe

Attached are the notes from the Value Added Processing Group Conference Call. Please feel free to read through them and comment. We will be gathering additional information to be posted in the near future.

Amalie Lipstreu

To call in for the Value Added Processing conference call this Friday at 10:00 am call 1.866.439.4480, after the prompt enter the following pin#

312068#

Brian Grwin will be the call moderator and those who have RSVP'd so far include:

Casey Hoy

Matt mariola

Brad Masi

Leslie Schaller

myself and Brian

Anyone is welcomed to call in.

Talk with you all on Friday morning!

Amalie

We will be conferencing by telephone this Friday at 10:00 am to move the
Value Added discussion forward. Details for the call in will be
available by Tuesday morning.

Please contact me for details.

330.657.2355

Amalie Lipstreu

Greetings Value Added Participants:

As a follow up to the great discussion at the Leap into Local foods conference around setting up more value added processing in the state we will be having a conference call.

Possible dates are Monday, April 21st, Thursday 4/24 or Friday 4/24 at 10:00 am.. Please let me know what dates you are available by April 16th so we can get the call and agenda set up and thank you for your participating towards keeping more local food, health and economic activity in Ohio!

Amalie Lipstreu, Coordinator

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