After artisanal cheese, Vermont explores charcuterie
Robin Morris Frank Pace
In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 photo, Robin Morris, center, watches Frank Pace, left, and Florin Ungureanu, butcher a pig in Waitsfield, Vt. Vermont officials are exploring a new round of value added agriculture, hoping their livestock industry might take advantage of the burgeoning world of charcuterie. “You can buy a pig for $3 a pound. You turn it into cuts and you'll get $4, $5, $6 a pound. Turn it into bacon and you're getting $8 maybe $9 a pound. Turn it into cured products, the world's your oyster,” said Robin Morris, founder of the Mad River Food Hub, an incubator for new food businesses that is adding rooms for producers to dry cure meats such as salamis, prosciuttos and sopressatas. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
Pete Colman
In a Dec. 20, 2012 photo, Pete Colman makes sausage, in East Montpelier, Vt. Along with its craft beer, artisan cheese and a demand for locally produced foods, Vermont is hoping to expand production of speciality cured meats as it works to develop a meat industry in a state that has been primarily dominated by dairy cows. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
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Walter Jeffries posted at 4:51 pm on Sat, Feb 2, 2013.
Excellent article. This is a big part of why our family is building our own on-farm USDA/State inspected meat processing facility for our pastured pig farm.
Processing costs us about 64% of our gross income per pig. Bringing that on-farm will not only save us that high cost, effectively doubling our sales, but it will also allow us to do a variety of value added products including some that we simply can't get done with hired processing. It will also save my wife her day long trip to take pigs to the butcher and then pickup our meat each week.
This past December we finished closing in our on-farm butcher shop. Now that the building is weather tight we are working on finishing off the interior so that we can begin cutting meat and making sausage here at Sugar Mountain Farm in Vermont. For details on how we built our own facility check out:
http://SugarMtnFarm.com/butchershop