Education - Main Page

The following page represents the links for everything in the education menu to the left on one page. They are categorized like the navigational menu for those who prefer not to use it.

Publications

• General Information
• Marketing Terminology
• Getting Started
• Distribution Chains
• Establishing a Price for your Livestock
• Planning Breedings to Target Specific Holidays
• Informal NYC Marketing Tour
• Selling Smart
• NYC Animal Markets
• Northeastern Auction Barns
• Goat Meat Market Outlook - 2003
• Protection Available to Livestock Sellers

• Live and Carcass Evaluation

• Grades of Goats and Lambs for Northeast Markets
• Sheep and Lamb Yield Grades
• USDA Live Goat Classification Criteria
• Evaluating Easter or Hothouse Kids
• Sheep and Goat Dressing Percentages
• Factors Affecting Dressing Percentages
• How to Assess a Live Goat's Body Condition

• Methods And Strategies

• Direct On-Farm Marketing
• Marketing Through Livestock Auction Markets
• Marketing Through Dealers, Packers, Wholesalers & Retailers
• Marketing Through Restaurants
• Mobile Processing Unit
• Specialty Market Pooling
• NESGMP New Holland Goat Sale Experience
• NESGMP Market Pooling to Live Animal Markets
• Report on the First Choice Lamb Marketing Pool

• Religious Slaughter

• Halal Meat Trade in the USA
• Interpretation of Halal & Haram Foods
• Kosher Meats
• Halal-kosher Slaughter (slideshow)
• Ethnic Calendar of Holidays

• Marketing Projects

• Capricorn Hill Small Ruminant Meat Processing Project
• Hudson Valley Livestock Marketing Taskforce
• Lamb and Goat Meat Market Research in Brooklyn, NY
• Meadow Raised Pastured Meats Initiative
• Pride of New York Marketing Initiative

Courses (Back to Top)

• Penn State Sheep Home Study Course
• Penn State Meat Goat Home Study Course

Resources (Back to Top)

• Restraining Device for Religious slaughter (slide show)
• Humane On-farm Slaughter Poster
• Ethnic Holidays Calendar
• Small Ruminant List Serv

Funding Sources (Back to Top)

• National Sheep Improvement Center
• National Livestock Producers Association Sheep & Goat Fund
• ederal-State Marketing Improvement Program (FSMIP)