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.

November 6, 2024 12pm

The H-2A visa program makes it possible for farmers to bring in citizens of other countries for agricultural work in the United States. With a tight labor market, the visa program is experiencing a lot of growth – farmers who have never considered it before are taking a closer look.

December 9, 2024 12pm

It’s every farmer or rancher’s worst nightmare: Someone claims to have gotten sick from the food they produced. No matter how safe the operation is, the risk is always there. The good news is there are ways to manage and mitigate the impacts of this risk. We’ll discuss the best practices every farmer or rancher can adopt to get a foothold in managing their food safety liability exposure.

January 16. 2024

Ecommerce can be a game changer for your direct-to-consumer meat business, but there are several important things to consider to optimize your online sales. In this webinar, Katie Olthoff with ChopLocal will share the best practices for your ecommerce store to help you get the most bang for your buck!

February 6

More than 300 livestock farmers selling direct-to-consumer contributed to the 2nd annual ChopLocal national survey. Join Katie Olthoff as she shares some of the findings, including average gross sales, marketing techniques used by the most successful farms, and the impact of ecommerce on farm sales.