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<title>Chicken processors nearly on line</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 11, 2012) Almost ten years ago, a visiting speaker at St. Lawrence University planted a seed. Economist Michael Shuman told an audience that farmers could jolt the North Country economy by producing a lot more meat. &quot;You have a lot more room to produce your own beef cows,&quot; Shuman told the Burt Symposium in 2003. &quot;You could produce a lot more of your own pigs. And chickens are not even in the game.&quot;Community leaders have recalled that advice, to have the thousands of local residents who eat chicken buy it from a local farm, many times since.The idea is about to bear fruit. The first USDA certified poultry slaughterhouses in the North Country are nearly set to begin production. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21038/20121211/chicken-processors-nearly-on-line">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: David Sommerstein</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Almost ten years ago, a visiting speaker at St. Lawrence University planted a seed. Economist Michael Shuman told an audience that farmers could jolt the North Country economy by producing a lot more meat. &quot;You have a lot more room to produce your own beef cows,&quot; Shuman told the Burt Symposium in 2003. &quot;You could produce a lot more of your own pigs. And chickens are not even in the game.&quot;Community leaders have recalled that advice, to have the thousands of local residents who eat chicken buy it from a local farm, many times since.The idea is about to bear fruit. The first USDA certified poultry slaughterhouses in the North Country are nearly set to begin production. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21038/20121211/chicken-processors-nearly-on-line">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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