Ranked #1
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
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44mins
Ranked #2
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
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47mins
Ranked #3
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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5mins
Ranked #4
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
26 Apr 2018
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38mins
Ranked #5
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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56mins
Ranked #6
How to avoid being a dangerous chicken breeder
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
27 Aug 2019
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #7
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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38mins
Ranked #8
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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9mins
Ranked #9
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
8 Feb 2016
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33mins
Ranked #10
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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39mins
Ranked #11
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
24 Mar 2018
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37mins
Ranked #12
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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52mins
Ranked #13
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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32mins
Ranked #14
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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39mins
Ranked #15
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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9mins
Ranked #16
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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36mins
Ranked #17
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
8 Jan 2018
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39mins
Ranked #18
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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8mins
Ranked #19
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
17 Jul 2018
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27mins
Ranked #20
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
17 Feb 2018
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32mins