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We raise, we're a diversified livestock operation and we raise lamb, and goat, and pork, or pigs I should say instead of beef, some beef cattle. We also milk a small herd of diary goats and we have two customer bases. One is a customer base, we're located about 3 ? hours from New York City and we sell a lot of goat and lamb to what would be classified as an ethnic market. That's not a terribly good term because the ethnicity in New York is just a state of being. Their ethnic, the whole city is ethnic. But lamb and goat is eaten very widely throughout the world by most cultures other than our very sanitized American culture. So, we attract a lot of attention especially around religious holidays for people who come up from the city and are interested in lamb and goat. And we also, because of the methods that we use in raising our livestock, we are appealing to a movement of people who want to eat grass fed, or grass finished livestock and there's many writers who have been talking about the benefits of grass fed meat. The New York Times, for example, has done a lot of articles recently on the state of the food industry in the United States, our agriculture, and its emphasis on corn based finishing for livestock. And we're the opposite of that and there are people who are concerned about the nutritional characteristics of the meat that they're eating and we're sort of an alternative source. We're not necessarily organic, what we emphasize is the grass finishing of our livestock. D:And raising animals outside, with the sunshine, fresh air, and not in a barn. And people like the concept that animals are outside grazing and eating grass. You also forgot turkeys. T:Yeah, turkeys and chickens and the other added emphasis to the way we raise animals is we call them the "Nancy Reagan animals" just say no to drugs. D: No hormones, no antibiotics, no nothing. T: Yeah, we don't use that on a feed base level, so there's none of our feeds, the grass obviously we can't put antibiotics in the grass but, maybe we could try. D: We also rotationally graze. T: Yeah. D: And so our animals are always on fresh grass and therefore we can limit the amount of medication if we had to use it, that we would be giving.
