30 Sep Mon 2013
Building Processing Plant on Ranch
I know that y'all haven't heard from me in a while. I apologize. I have been plugging along, growing the business, running a ranch and just coping with day-to-day life.
However, there is one thing that is now all consuming. We are getting ready to build a small processing plant on the ranch. It will allow me to do so much more, both with the ranch and with the grass-fed business. For one thing, I will be able to harvest so much more of the carcassess. That means almost no waste. For another - and you know how important this is in drought struck Texas! - all the water we use in the processing plant will be recycled for irrigation on the ranch.
I would love to have a forum to talk about the whole movement back to small regional processing plants and what that could mean for the rural community that I live in, but I don't want to post if y'all find that too self-promoting. Just let me know. Thanks.