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Pathways To Organic Beef Carl Poss Ranch Philip SD
Join us for an engaging and practical field day focused on transitioning to organic beef production, featuring Carl Poss, an experienced cattleman managing the family ranch who is exploring transitioning the family’s organic beef calves to USDA organic certification, and Dr. Angela Jackson, a regenerative organic farmer who developed a branded meat program selling to local retailers.
This event will highlight certification challenges to management, feed sourcing, recordkeeping, and navigating the complex organic beef market. Carl will share the steps his operation plans to take, and why he is transitioning, while Angela will discuss the unique barriers and breakthroughs in building a branded organic beef product from scratch.
Pat Guptill a rancher and former board member of the SD Grasslands Coalition from Quinn, S.D. will talk about raising his cattle without pesticides or herbicides on pastures and join the pasture walk to share his experiences. Additionally, Krysti Mikkonen, executive director for NPSAS will share the Mikkonen Organic family farm journey to raising, certifying, and selling organic beef online and the bumps along the way.
Whether you are already certified or considering the transition, this field day offers honest insights, peer-to-peer learning, and helpful resources for producers looking to get into organic livestock production.
This is a USDA Transition to Organic Partnership Program Event (TOPP)
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Note: Do not use Google maps to find the ranch. It will take you on impassible roads.
Follow I-90. Take exit 143 for SD-73 N toward Philip. Turn south and go under the overpass to the service road and make a right heading west. Go approximately 7 miles and turn right on Fairview Road northbound and proceed for about 6 miles, cross over a bridge, then take an immediate left at the fork in the road to follow the road (Triangle Ranch is straight ahead, that’s wrong). Go Eastbound for three to four miles until you see the Poss Ranch sign and take the driveway to the South.
