Resources For Farmers

Printable Consumer Buying Guides

Download and print these tri-fold brochures and distribute to your customers to help them understand how and why to purchase local meat.

• Buying Local Beef
• Buying Local Goat
• Buying Local Lamb
• Buying Local Pork

Additional Consumer Resources:

• How To Use a Cut Sheet
• Why Frozen Meat

How to Market Specialty Meats for Ethnic Holidays

SMM has compiled some tips and resources for marketing meat for ethnic holidays. Discover what consumers are looking for when purchasing meat for ethnic holidays (preferred species, cuts, and raising practices) and at what times of the year these meats are in demand.

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Smart Marketing: Tips for Marketing in the Local Meats Market

by Matthew LeRoux/Cornell Cooperative Extension

This resource contains helpful marketing hints for producers who are thinking about direct marketing their meats including guidance on pricing for profit and how to build and keep your customer base.

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Used to transport locally raised (USDA slaughtered, vacuum packed and frozen) meat cuts directly from the slaughter facility to the farm for sale to consumers, restaurants and stores. Available to any livestock producer in the five counties of Southern Maryland. Managing entities for the freezer trailers are Calvert County Farm Bureau, the Home Grown Farm Market LLC and Prince George’s County Farm Bureau. For complete specifications, towing guidelines and rental details visit the Farm Equipment Rentals page at smadc.com. To find out more and how you can use the trailers, please contact the following:

Calvert County: JR Cosgrove, (443) 532-5763
St. Mary's and Charles County: Willie Goddard, (301) 475-5190
Prince George's and Anne Arundel: Jennifer Cross, (240) 508-2326

SMM has compiled a list of UDSA processing facilities within 150 miles of Hughesville, MD, available to regional livestock producers. Listings include contact information, travel distances, species processed, dry aging ability, specialty product processing and other information important when looking for a processor.

Due to COVID-related and other administrative challenges some meat processing facilities may have closed temporarily or permanently. As a result, the demand for regionally accessible meat processing is unprecedented and wait times to schedule your livestock maybe upwards of 8 months to well over a year. Please call or check websites for details and operational status.

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NOTE: Only those farms that have signed the SMM contract may use the logo on their products and advertising.

Southern Maryland Meats Logo

For Print:
Right-click on either link below and click “save link as" or "save target file as,” then save file to your computer. (These versions of the logo are larger files suitable for desktop or professional printing.)

SMM_LOGO_PRINT.PDF (preferred)
SMM-LOGO.PNG

For the Web:
Right-click on the image below and click “save image as,” then upload for use on your website or social media. (This version of the logo is small and optomized for web use.) Please link the image on your website to https://www.southernmarylandmeats.com

Southern Maryland Meats Signage

Official SMM members are invited to download and print this “SMM Available Here” sign to display at point of purchase. This prints at 8 in. x 10 in. and can be placed in a standard plastic bracket designed to display on a counter. (Can also be printed smaller or bigger).

To Download:
Right-click on the link below and click "save link as" or “save target file as,” then save file to your computer.
SMM_Poster_Print.pdf

SMADC owns some farmland equipment to be shared and rented for farmers across the Southern Maryland region through various county entities. Equipment includes: Freezer trailers, mobile poultry processing equipment, cattle chutes, scales, and more. Other equipment can be arranged through county agencies. Read the full list at the SMADC website.

To find out more and how you can use the scales and chutes, please contact:
Anne Arundel, Calvert and Prince George's: Shelley Garrett (410) 222-7410 or visit AAEDC Farm Rental Program.
Charles County and St. Mary's County: David Hancock (301) 752-8723 or email dhancock93@yahoo.com

Mobile Poultry Processing Unit

Anne Arundel County equipment rental program currently offers a mobile poultry processing unit funded in part through a grant from the Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission (SMADC). The unit is available for rental by producers in Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George's and St. Mary's counties. All renters must complete the MD State Poultry and Rabbit Certification. For equipment and rental details visit the AAEDC Mobile Poultry Processing Unit Rental Program.

For complete specifications, towing guidelines and rental details visit the Farm Equipment Rentals page at SMADC.com.