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<b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">March 18: Producers can learn about mobile units to process poultry and fish for retail<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#555555">By Tracy Turner | Posted on 3/11/2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Ohio - Producers looking to take advantage of the growing consumer demand for local foods but having difficulty in finding methods to process their poultry, rabbit and fish for retail sale may want to consider setting up their own processing units.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Industry experts, including those from Ohio State University's <a href="http://cfaes.osu.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#669966;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">College
of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences</span></a>, will present a discussion March 18 designed to help producers learn how to set up a mobile processing unit, said David Marrison, an Ohio State University Extension educator.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">OSU Extension is the statewide outreach arm of the college.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">From understanding the regulatory requirements behind a mobile processing unit to learning how to sell homegrown
poultry and fish legally, the meeting will tackle the various issues food producers need to be aware of as they plan to market their food products locally, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">One of the goals of the discussion is to help producers increase the availability of local foods as well
as increase their financial bottom line by widening the potential market for their food products, Marrison said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">"Mobile processing units could help producers who are looking to market poultry and fish to local restaurants,
schools, grocery stores and farm markets," he said. "Numerous producers have recently lamented about the need to have easier methods to process poultry, rabbits and fish in areas throughout the state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">"Very few processing centers exist in Ohio to process poultry and fish products, and mobile processing units
may help fill this processing void."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">While there are nearly 300 meat processing plants in Ohio that are fully inspected by the Ohio Department
of Agriculture, only three provide poultry processing facilities fully inspected by the department, according to ODA spokeswoman Ashley McDonald.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">The meeting will include comments from:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">* Michael F. Link Jr., assistant chief for the Division of Meat Inspection, ODA, who will discuss the regulatory
requirements behind a mobile processing unit and how to sell homegrown poultry and fish legally. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">* Angela Caporelli, of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, who will discuss how a small mobile poultry
processing unit was built in Kentucky and how farmers use it on a rental basis to process poultry and aquaculture species in the state. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">* Jim McLaughlin, of Cornerstone Farm Ventures Inc. in New York, who will discuss the costs and equipment
needed in mobile processing units.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">The program runs from 1 to 3 p.m. at 39 Wall St. in Jefferson, Ohio. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">There is no cost to attend the meeting but registration is requested by March 15 so enough materials will be available. The registration
form is online at<a href="http://go.osu.edu/ne-events" target="_blank"><span style="color:#669966;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">http://go.osu.edu/ne-events</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">For more information about the event, contact Marrison at <a href="mailto:marrison.2@osu.edu"><span style="color:#669966;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">marrison.2@osu.edu</span></a> or
440-576-9008, ext. 106.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://ashtabula.osu.edu/topics/agriculture-and-natural-resources/program-files-pdf/MobileProcessingUnitMeetingMarch18AshtabulaCO.pdf">http://ashtabula.osu.edu/topics/agriculture-and-natural-resources/program-files-pdf/MobileProcessingUnitMeetingMarch18AshtabulaCO.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Laura Tiu, PhD Aquaculture Extension Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">740-289-2071 x.121 Office | 800-297-2072 x. 121 Office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">tiu.2@osu.edu
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