| 1,911 Shoppers on MeatSuite.com |
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| 343 Meat Farms Represented |
| 4,101 Farm Product Views |
| 1,692 Shopper Inquiries to Farms |
Beef producers: this might be the easiest marketing win you’ll get all year.
🔗Click the link in our profile to request access to beef producer resources from @beefitswhatsfordinner.
These resources are supported by your Beef Checkoff dollars. Thank you for contributing on every animal sold.
📸 Photos and videos courtesy of the Beef Checkoff/BeefItsWhatsForDinner.com
#FarmMarketing #Cattle #Farmer #Beef #NC
Thanks to @eatbeefnc, we’ve helped:
🎥 Reach 263,000 North Carolinians with bulk beef education
🥩 Drive 40,000 more shoppers to MeatSuite.com to discover YOUR farm
🍽️ Fuel local meat processing trainings
🐂 Build the NCHayFinder.com tool
That’s more visibility, more customers and more resources.
A stronger future for NC beef farmers—all made possible by your NC Cattle Industry Assessment.
#Beef #Farmer #Cattle #NC
Ready to build a thriving local meat business? Join NC Choices on August 25-26 in Asheboro, NC for an intensive Meat Quality & Marketing Training! 🥩
Learn about live animal evaluation, nutrition and bulk sales strategy from national experts Dr. Jennifer Martin (@coloradostateuniversity), Matt LeRoux (@cornelluniversity), and Casey Roe (@caseyroemarketing). Plus, don’t miss the optional Aug 25 pre-workshop tour featuring on-farm live animal evaluation and cutting demos at a USDA-inspected facility. Space is limited!
🎟️ Secure your spot: cefs.ncsu.edu/ensuring-quality-from-pasture-to-plate
Interested in raising pastured pork? 🐖🌾
Join North Carolina Cooperative Extension and NC Choices for a pasture pork workshop and farm tour 🚜 on Thursday, June 25 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the @ncatsuaggies Farm Pavilion in Greensboro.
Register today: go.ncsu.edu/pasturedpork
Topics include:
breed selection
herd + pasture management
hoop housing
feeding and nutrition
meat businesses
Speakers: Derrick Coble (@ncatsuaggies), Lee Menius & Sarah Blacklin (@NCChoices and @cefsnc), Silvana Pietrosemoli (@ncstate.ans)
Discover the craft of whole animal butchery. Learn how to break down a deer or lamb into primal and value-added cuts, plus gain valuable recipes and cooking tips.
This is a great opportunity for hunters, farmers, and consumers looking to improve their processing and culinary skills.
📍 Boone, NC
📅 August 21 | ⏰ 6:00–9:00 PM
🔗 Register: https://go.ncsu.edu/deerlambprocessing-boone
📍 Lillington, NC
📅 August 28 | ⏰ 6:00–9:00 PM
🔗 Register: https://go.ncsu.edu/deerlambprocessing-lillington
💲 $20/participant – includes dinner
This winter, NC Choices and Cornell University are offering a webinar series to help your farm maximize profitable sales through MeatSuite.com.
The webinars (February 13, February 27, and March 6) will cover new tools, such as MeatSuite’s Bundle Builder, to help you move inventory and develop bulk bundle boxes that meet your profit goals and target your customers’ needs. Whether you are listed on MeatSuite or just curious to learn more, this series will cover a gamut from marketing to pricing strategies and tips to make the most out of the free resources on MeatSuite.com.
Learn more and register: cefs.ncsu.edu/event/meatsuite-webinar-series
We know connectivity is a challenge but *please spread the word* to fellow farmers and community members in Avery and Mitchell counties (primarily) and nearby counties (if needed) that Extension has Livestock and Pet Feed, Hay, & Supplies Available for Pick Up at Avery County Livestock South
6880 Linville Falls Highway
Newland, NC 28657
Other Livestock Supply Distribution Sites:
Macon County Fairgrounds
1436 Georgia Road
Franklin, NC 28734
McDowell County Agriculture Center
188 Ag Services Drive
Marion, NC 28752
Mitchell County
Location TBD
Contact Michelle South - 828-284-2363
For livestock farm/animal needs *and/or* donations (not human needs), please enter them in this form- go.ncsu.edu/livestockdisasterhelp. A team from NC State Extension and the NC Cattlemen`s Association is dispatching as needed what gets entered there or called in. Please also reach out to your area livestock county agent if they are available/accessible, as they are the points of contact in the county helping with farm needs and pick up spots in your area.
Any immediate and emergency needs can also be called into the Ag Hotline - 866-645-9403 and they will connect directly with the vet`s office for animal health issues.
Day 1 in the books! 📚 The Carolina Meat Conference and Southeast Value-Added Dairy Conference are off to an amazing start! Can`t wait to see what Day 2 brings. Stay tuned for more highlights! #CMC #SEVADC #meat #dairy #conference
