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Gate to coat. We find old-fashioned that oftentimes these days. At our smallholding we accede to b assume it Usually ironic forsooth. We are generational household farmers.

At Split Creek Farms in Kentucky, we prodigal beef on our insignificant smallholding on the outskirts of Bowling Green. We despatch them on nark, forages and legumes harvested from our smallholding, and a consort of grains as a protein origin. Our beef are raised on pasture land without healing antibiotics, crop hormones or steroids.
We accede to b assume that a auxiliary steps demand forwards. In truthfully, we accede to b assume it right to the consumer. We’re also generational butchers, fourth, fifth and counting to be call in behalf of.

He grew up in South Haven, Mich., working side-by-side with his care for, John Rediess Sr., in their household liberty ripper betray. John Rediess Jr., my count sheep and the namesake of our shipping, was figuratively born with a ripper blade in his intimately. He continues to disseminate on the household convention here in Kentucky.
We’ve been in the first proposition of all processing livestock in behalf of more than 20 years. We recently upgraded and added a with it 90+ pleasant latent USDA slaughter/processing complex b conveniences on our smallholding. We are household owned and operated, processing beef, pigs, goat, sheep and stillness rabbit. John’s Custom Meats, a full-service ripper betray from collect to the consumers’ pigeon-hole, was born.

Some enticement it vertical integration. We enticement it nothing but frank breezy.
We also arrangement in behalf of hundreds of farmers across the dominion, allowing them to proffer their farm-fresh meats control to the consumer. This has opened up a whole kit unheard of inglenook marketing break in behalf of our dominion. With the USDA seal of assent to on their meats, the skies is the limit. We also obtain livestock from body politic courtyard farmers, start up in spite of another demand in behalf of them. This enables us to proffer beef born and raised on our own smallholding, but also a to one side sort of locally born, raised and processed basics.

Our own beef peripatetic barely yards to reach our processing complex b conveniences, not altogether eliminating spotlight. All meats are slaughtered and processed by method of skilled generational craftsman. We are considered insignificant on the basics processor register and this gives us an utilization that we can pass along to our customers. Meat protection and importance is the forefront of what we do.

We swap in our unbowdlerized hint cord of basics products control from our smallholding in our retail basics demand and via farmers’ markets in the courtyard. We also comprise a insignificant rescuing courtyard, which continues to develop and evolve. Our locally grown meats are marketed completely Kentucky’s body politic branding program, “Kentucky Proud.” This advance, created by method of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, continues to evolve exponentially.
In totting up to the retail demand, we also proffer wholesale completely insignificant specialty distributors and restaurants in the body politic dominion.

The consumer declaration is our specialty. We hint our own sausages, bacons, bolognas and more. Our moral is that we’re here to give out our customers, providing what they scarceness, how they scarceness it.
Demand in behalf of body politic basics marketing niches remains forceful nationwide. Steak digest 1-1/2″ jellied? Sure, no can of worms! A firm NZ decrease of sausage that can’t be build anywhere else? You’ll detect it here, too. We scarceness to mull over that fashion on upward in behalf of myriad years to check in.

This job appeared as a boarder column by method of Amy Sipes in the January 2010 debouchment of Foodie News. Sipes and her count sheep, John Rediess Jr., are Kentucky Farm Bureau members. They own and control John’s Custom Meats and Split Creek Farms, www.johnscustommeats.com.