Beef /Turkey/Organic Feed

When you are stuck inside for days at a time, 2 things can happen...You either go crazy, or you really go crazy and come up with new ideas to give your husband (in our case!) All is well, just trying to keep up with the wheels that turn in my wife's head! She is a lefty, so I often revert back to that! I am blessed with the inability to ever sit idle! Anyhow, how many of you are interested in grass-fed/finished beef? And, how many of you are interested in Turkey this year? We would like to start offering beef here locally, and our land situation is just waiting for it! Last year our turkeys were amazing! This year they should be even better! On Monday we found a fairly local (Greensboro) certified organic feed supplier for our chickens! We are super excited about this! We had been using the best we could find; and all natural grain, but it was not local, or near as fresh. We picked up our first load yesterday (Wed.) and we are very pleased with the texture/smell/ingredients. The chicks are very happy as well! However, the price of "real food" is a litter higher, but the end result far out-weighs the immediate cost! With the rise of GMO grains and pesticided (is that a word?) grains, we have to be very selective of where we get our grains, and its a battle that we have tackled and finally won! The grains we are purchasing now are from a farm in Greensboro that has a certified organic dairy, one of the very few, and also one of the very few (3 total?) organic feed suppliers for chickens. Our prices for chicken will need to increase a little to help offset the more than double cost of the feed ($19/100lbs. verses $23/50lbs.). Big difference, but well worth it! This year chickens will be about .25 cents more per pound, making it $3.50/lb for a whole bird (ready to cook) and about a $1.00/lb. for cut up birds (ex. - boneless breast=$9/lb.) As far as we know, we are the only chicken providers that are using a truly organic feed, and the difference in our birds and the "organic" birds at health food stores, is that our birds get fresh grass each day as well! Things are very wet right now, but as soon as things dry up, we fully welcome you to take a tour of we are doing, and see things in operation! It's fun! Please let us know what you think about the beef, and the turkeys! Have a great rest of the week,

-your farmers, Dale and Cory Emmons