NC Choices

NC Choices supports the development of alternative markets for pasture-raised livestock and poultry. By helping grow the market for well-managed pasture-raised meats, NC Choices supports a supply chain model which benefits local food economies while helping to mitigate the impacts of climate change and other environmental impacts. NC Choices also helps provide farmers with opportunities to transition to practices in the pasture-based sector. As a leader in alternative meat market development, NC Choices researches impacts in the pasture-based sector, and discusses production trainings that have taken place over the years (reducing inputs through managed grazing) in partnership with Amazing Grazing through a climate change mitigation lens.

Through events such as the Carolina Meat Conference, NC Choices brings together farmers and meat processors to share tools for better managing grazing, reducing input use, and making processing businesses more efficient and profitable in a changing climate.