Market Farming

["Michaele Blakely" <mjb AT premier1.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Sojourner <sojournr AT missouri.org>
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: Small farm poultry


> Michaele Blakely wrote:
> >
> > This of course, is determined by which state you live in, how stringent
your
> > dept. of ag is, as well as county health codes.  Laws, codes differ
state to
> > state and county to county.  Check out your own state and county
legalities,
> > some are very obliging, others are not.  Muck through all of that,
depending
> > upon your market,  you'll find sometimes USDA doesn't matter.
>
> The USDA rules concerning slaughtering ALWAYS take precedence.  Local
####Nope, they don't.  In this state the dept. of ag inpects meat if you are
over 1000 birds, over 20,000 USDA takes over.  Under 1000 you are exempt, it
just has to be labeled uninspected.  People can sell meat that is not USDA
approved under certain conditions.  My problem is with my county, they do
not allow the sale of meat retail and THEY take PRECEDENT over the state.
We're using the term meat interchangeably with poultry, and that is not
really the case.  Regs are different if it is meat, but still it can be done
here,
> health codes vary widely, but the laws governing the resale of meat are
> federal.
#####  not always so, it would still be a good idea to check all avenues.
Even still, you'll get a different answer depending on which agency you are
dealing with.
>
> It was the Feds who tried to shut Joel Salatin down.  And came darn
> close to it, too.
>
> State and county regulations concerning on-farm sales, and health
> department regulations about storing and packaging and handling of food
> items for retail sales to consumers do vary widely, even within the same
> state.  But once you move into reselling meat, you are under the USDAs
> purview and must conform with ALL the USDA regulations.
###again, not always neccessarily so.  How many birds did you do last year?
And how did you market them?
>
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