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Poultry Resources

We invite you to the poultry resources page, a space to share living documents, ideas, and concepts around supporting regional poultry systems. Our goal is to create dialogues and engage vital stakeholders in the poultry industry in order to grow and strengthen regional poultry supply and sales.​

​We invite you to share stories, documents, and other pertinent resources. Please click here to submit.


Supplier Networks

  • Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture - Feed & Grain Sources
  • Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture) -Financial Resources for Farmers
  • New Entry Sustainable Farming Project - Poultry Processing Training and Resources
  • University of Maine Cooperative Extension - Resources for Small-Scale Poultry Keepers
  • Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education - Profitable Poultry Resources & Publications
  • Massachusetts Department of Agriculture Resources- Poultry Program Resources
  • UMass Dining -  Local Chicken Sourcing Memorandum of Understanding Example

Buyer networks

  • Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture - Local Meat Sources
  • United States Department of Agriculture - Poultry Inventory 2012 & 2007
  • United States Department of Agriculture - Local Meat in Schools
  • UMass Dining -  Local Chicken Sourcing Memorandum of Understanding Example

POULTRY Processing

  • New Entry Sustainable Farming Project - Poultry Processing Training and Resources
  • Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture - Poultry Processing
  • Extension (A Part of the Cooperative Extension System) - Poultry Processing Regulations & Exemptions

Menu design & Development

  • Michael Webster of The Hotchkiss School - Local Chicken Profitability Spreadsheet
  • UMass Dining - Recipes that Highlight Local Chicken
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