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Poultry with Purpose: The Humane Benefits of Slower Growing Breeds

September 9, 2025

As consumer demand for ethically produced food continues to rise, the poultry industry is at a crossroads. This webinar, explores how transitioning to slower-growing chicken breeds can improve animal welfare, align with consumer values, support more sustainable farming practices, plus they're just plain fun to raise.

Photo credit: WillowBrook Farms

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Humane Handling for sheep and Goats: Why it shouldn't involve pallets, pokers or pushing

September 16, 2025

Whether you’re considering becoming a sheep or goat farmer, have recently started, or have been raising them for many years, you’ll need to have a method for handling them. Sheep need to be sheared, both sheep and goats need health checks, hoof trims, deworming, ear tagging, weighing, trailer loading, and other herd interactions.

Photo Credit: BOLT Farm

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Silvopasture for Pigs

October 7, 2025

Everyone knows that pigs appreciate trees for shade. But the right trees can offer very significant amounts of feed, allowing producers to significantly slash their feed costs during the growing season. Join to learn which trees make the most sense for producers, how to plant and protect them, and how to get started with silvopasture on your own farm. 

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Are YOU Ready to Host a Farmstay?

March 10, 2026

Join us for an inspiring and informative session as Elizabeth shares her experience of hosting a farmstay on her partner's 5th-generation family farm since 2020. From the first seeds of the idea to building a unique guest experience rooted in heritage and hospitality, this webinar offers an authentic behind-the-scenes look at agritourism done right.

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Pasture Poultry and Bird Flu: How to avoid it and what to expect if you get it

March 13, 2025 1pmET
Bird flu is a threat for everyone who raises poultry. While previous outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) had a much greater impact on large poultry producers, the current outbreak is hitting just as many small flocks as large ones. This webinar will provide information on steps pasture-based poultry producers can take to avoid becoming infected.

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Selling Lesser Know Cuts: Tips and Techniques from Belmont Butchery

March 24, 2025 @1pmET

Diving deeper into the finer details of brooding to perfect the environment when chicks/poults/ducklings are first placed and how to transition them to prepare them for the pasture. For those who mostly know what they are doing when it comes to brooding. Discussing brooder design, ventilation, drafts, bedding, feed, brooding with brooder guard or whole house brooding, supplemental feeders and waters and feeder and waterer types. Basic health issues and behaviors to watch out for such as delivery stress, grouping/piling, panting, early starve-outs (3-5 days of age), late starve outs (10+ days of age) and how to correct or prevent it with management or supplements. Stressing the importance of sitting on the ground to watch how they are behaving to see where you can make tweaks that make a difference in livability and weight gain.

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Advanced Brooding: Honing in on your skills

March 20, 2025 @2pmET

Diving deeper into the finer details of brooding to perfect the environment when chicks/poults/ducklings are first placed and how to transition them to prepare them for the pasture. For those who mostly know what they are doing when it comes to brooding. Discussing brooder design, ventilation, drafts, bedding, feed, brooding with brooder guard or whole house brooding, supplemental feeders and waters and feeder and waterer types. Basic health issues and behaviors to watch out for such as delivery stress, grouping/piling, panting, early starve-outs (3-5 days of age), late starve outs (10+ days of age) and how to correct or prevent it with management or supplements. Stressing the importance of sitting on the ground to watch how they are behaving to see where you can make tweaks that make a difference in livability and weight gain.

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First Aid Fundamentals for Livestock: Caring for Goats, Sheep and Cows

February 4, 2025 @3pmET

Farm life is unpredictable, and emergencies with your livestock can happen at any time. Join us for this essential webinar on "First Aid Fundamentals for Livestock: Caring for Goats, Sheep and Cows", where we'll provide practical, hands-on knowledge to help you care for goats, sheep, and cows in critical situations.

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Commercial Targeted Grazing with Goats 101

January 28, 2025 @3pmET

Want to get more revenue from the goats you produce and deliver a valuable service to the world at the same time? A targeted goat grazing business could be just the ticket...but be sure to go into it with your eyes wide open. Commercial targeted grazing requires an additional knowledge base and skill set, and it comes with its own unique challenges and risks. But, when approached with a professional mindset it can be the perfect profitable complement to a goat farm. Join Aaron Steele, founder of Goats On The Go®, to learn the basics of the business, including an honest discussion of all of its potential pleasures and pitfalls.

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Farmer’s First Aid: AED’s and Bleeding Control

October 28, 2024 @1pmET

Farmers are at higher risk of injury and are often in rural settings making ambulance response times much longer.The longer we wait to act on life saving interventions, the greater the loss. Learn basic do’s and don'ts about heart attacks and controlling bleeding, identify helpful resources and additional training available to the public with Paramedic Aaron Kersey. I

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