Why compete when you can collaborate and come out ahead? That’s the theory three farmers are taking in northwest Wisconsin to ensure quality customer service, a successful business plan and a high quality product for eco-conscious eaters.
Pasture Perfect Poultry consists of the Wild Hollow Farm in Sanborn, the Great Oak Farm in Mason and the Vranes Farm in Benoit. A few years back the farms were trying to ramp up production but shared a common problem of processing. “Processing is a stumbling block for a lot of small farms,” Melissa Fischbach of Wild Hollow Farm says. “The equipment is too expensive to purchase on our own. But, we realized if we worked together it’d make sense.”
It also makes the workload more feasible. “Small Farms work best when you have three or four generations and friends and neighbors working together,” Melissa’s husband Jason explains. Jason, who is also the Agriculture Agent for Ashland and Bayfield County, says one of the
struggles some of the new farm owners see in this region is that thier closest family is often 200 miles or more away. This plan was just one way to address that problem.
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