ATTRA - Sustainable Agriculture

In this episode, we take a question from the “Ask an Ag Expert” feature offered by NCAT’s ATTRA program. The question is whether it’s a better idea to start a pastured poultry egg operation. To ask an ag expert a question - free of charge - find the details on the ATTRA website at www.attra.ncat.org.

In this episode, Demetrius Fassas, a Local Food Program Specialist with the National Center for Appropriate Technology, and Aubrey Roth, the Montana Food to School Coordinator with Montana Team Nutrition discuss the producers’ role in the “Harvest of the Month” program in Montana. The program features a different Montana agricultural product in participating schools each month.

In this episode, Dave Prather of the Western Montana Food Growers Cooperative talks about the challenges that were overcome when the cooperative was created.

In this episode, Demetrius Fassas, a Local Food Program Specialist with the National Center for Appropriate Technology, and Aubrey Roth, the Montana Food to School Coordinator with Montana Team Nutrition discuss the “Harvest of the Month” program in Montana. The program features a different Montana agricultural product in participating schools each month and engages students through preparation of the food and “Don’t Yuck My Yum” taste tests.

In this episode, Kevin Ellis, a Sustainable Agriculture Specialist with the National Center for Appropriate Technology, visits with two presenters at the 2017 Texas Hispanic Farmer and Rancher Conference.

Farmer Juan Raygosa of the Terra Preta Farm http://terrapretafarm.com/ and Deputy Director of the Sustainable Food Center Joy Casnovsky https://sustainablefoodcenter.org/ talks about marketing strategies for working directly with hospitals and other institutions as well as work-site CSAs.

In this episode, National Center for Appropriate Technology Sustainable Agriculture Specialists Dave Scott and Lee Rinehart discuss ATTRA's new Grazing Plan Calculator and run through an example of using it.The calculator, along with ATTRA's other grazing materials, are available at: www.attra.ncat.org.To download the free calculator, link directly to the calculator at: https://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/summaries/summary.php?pub=575

Dave Scott, a livestock specialist with the National Center for Appropriate Technology and co-owner of Montana Highland Lamb near Whitehall, Montana, discusses how to prepare for the “before, during, and after” of shearing. This podcast also is available in video form at www.attra.ncat.org, along with many other sustainable agriculture videos, publications, podcasts, webinars, databases, and other resources.

Andrew Coggins, Agriculture Project Coordinator at the National Center for Appropriate Technology’s headquarters in Butte, MT, discusses the keys to creating an effective composting strategy.

Andrew Coggins, Agriculture Project Coordinator with the National Center for Appropriate Technolgy’s headquarters in Butte, MT, discusses the goals of cover cropping. He also describes the cover-cropping strategy NCAT’s SIFT demonstration farm in Butte.

You've gone to great effort to raise a nice set of finished lambs and have them processed. Now what? It's great if you can sell them all as wholes or halves. But maybe you can't. How do you go about pricing individual cuts for profit? What is the smallest lamb that you should have in your direct-market program? How do you price high-demand cuts to cover the lower pricing of lesser-demand cuts? In the maze of cuts and cut prices, what is your profit per lamb? An interview with ATTRA Livestock specialist Dave Scott will answer these questions and more.