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[permaculture] Frank's cows

From: John Schinnerer <eco_living@yahoo.com>
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [permaculture] Frank's cows
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:09:16 -0700 (PDT)

Aloha,

Frank, from your info about why you need more cows rather than less I
assume you're selling to wholesale beef brokers or something like that
who won't bother with less than the amount you mentioned.

You might consider looking for or creating higher-value (and maybe more
local) niche markets for 'free-range' or 'naturally-raised' or whatever
the currently hot marketing terms are for the kind of happy healthy
beef you are raising. You might get more per lb. and/or be able to
sell in smaller batches, and thus keep your herd smaller and more
manageable, etc.

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[permaculture] Report on Agribusiness, v.clarke, 10/07/2002
- [permaculture] Frank's cows, John Schinnerer, 10/10/2002
  - [permaculture] National Parks and Sustainable Settlements, Kirby Fry, 10/12/2002
    - Re: [permaculture] National Parks and Sustainable Settlements, John Schinnerer, 10/14/2002
      - Re: [permaculture] National Parks and Sustainable Settlements, Kirby Fry, 10/15/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [permaculture] Report on Agribusiness, Mark, 10/07/2002