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The following articles and project examples have been assembled to provide additional insight into aspects of marketing small ruminant (sheep, goat and deer) livestock.

General Information

• General Information

• Marketing Terminology

• Getting Started

• Distribution Chains

• Establishing a Price for your Livestock

• Planning Breedings to Target Specific Holidays

• Informal NYC Marketing Tour

• Selling Smart

• NYC Animal Markets

• Northeastern Auction Barns

• Goat Meat Market Outlook - 2003

• Protection Available to Livestock Sellers

Live & Carcass Evaluation Back to Top

• Grades of Goats and Lambs for Northeast Markets

• Sheep and Lamb Yield Grades

• USDA Live Goat Classification Criteria

• Evaluating Easter or Hothouse Kids

• Sheep and Goat Dressing Percentages

• Factors Affecting Dressing Percentages

• How to Assess a Live Goat's Body Condition

Methods and Strategies Back to Top

• Direct On-Farm Marketing

• Marketing Through Livestock Auction Markets

• Marketing Through Dealers, Packers, Wholesalers & Retailers

• Marketing Through Restaurants

• Mobile Processing Unit

• Specialty Market Pooling

• NESGMP New Holland Goat Sale Experience

• NESGMP Market Pooling to Live Animal Markets

• Report on the First Choice Lamb Marketing Pool

Religious Slaughter Back to Top

• Halal Meat Trade in the USA

• Interpretation of Halal & Haram Foods

• Kosher Meats

• Halal-kosher Slaughter (slideshow)

• Ethnic Calendar of Holidays

Marketing Projects Back to Top

• Capricorn Hill Small Ruminant Meat Processing Project

• Hudson Valley Livestock Marketing Taskforce

• Lamb and Goat Meat Market Research in Brooklyn, NY

• Meadow Raised Pastured Meats Initiative

• Pride of New York Marketing Initiative