Cow-A-Hen Farm “We use Herbivores not Herbicides”

Cow-A-Hen Farm“We use Herbivores not Herbicides”

“The Natural Way”

Cow-A-Hen Acreage • Located in Mifflinburg, PA in Union County • 100 Total Acres • 50 Acres Pastured • 50 Acres Certified Tree Farm

Owner/Operator

Cow-A-Hen Production • Grass Fed Livestock • Suckled Veal • Beef • Pork • Chickens • Turkeys

Suckled Veal • Fed Milk Replacer or Grafted to Milk Cows • Free Choice Pasture • Dairy Bull Calves • Ideally Slaughtered at 12 Weeks • Meat Red not Anemic White

“Beef It’s What’s for Dinner” • Grass Fed Lean Beef • Dairy Bull Crosses • Jersey X Holstien • Jersey X Hereford

Pork • Buys Feeders • “If you raise pigs on pasture ring their noses” • Breeds of Pigs • Yorkshire • Berkshire

Broiler Chickens • Bought as laying pullets • 8 week growing season • Sold whole, freshly slaughtered that morning • Pasture raised in chicken tractors with supplementary grain

Turkeys • Bought as pullets • Raised for Thanksgiving • “After you’ve eaten a bronze breasted turkey you’ll never go back to Butterball” • Heritage Breeds • Bourbon Reds

Marketing“Sell it before you grow it” • “I sell what my customers want, my customer drive what I produce and sell” • Direct Markets/ Farmers Markets • Boalsburg • Millheim • Ard’s Farm Market

Bill’s Philosophy on Sustainable Agriculture • “The large feedlots and 500 footers are what makes me money, because without them I’m nothing but a commodity producer” • Sustainable Agriculture has to be economically viable, environmentally sound, and should be locally based • “It’s all about perception and presentation”

Cow-A-Hen Farm “We use Herbivores not Herbicides”