European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes sunday May a 1986 Byma Yesch associated press. N a Windy Hillside no ave Triflis Home. Tol and Susanna Clarke Are surrounded by Broad antlered snags and wide eyed does some spotted some Russo or Smoky with lat White bellies All jostling Tor their morning radon of Corn. Hello Bighorn cafes mrs. A mho scattering kernels As some 150 Goat sized wow Deer crowd around Here although hey Era Docila and curious following the darkes around lha yield Ike a pack at puppies the Deer a e not Pels. They Aie livestock meal on the Hool Callie for the calorie counter me health conscious the gourmet. By Eliol Clarke s Calculi Anions and those of a Small by growing number of other american Deer Farmers they Aio Money in the Bank. " raising doer Lor Slaughter is big business in West Germany. New zealand and Girtain where Venison is n common Lood. But it s new in the United Stales. The Clarkes and a Lew others in upstate new York where Farmland is plentiful and major metropolitan markets Are close expect . Demand or Venison to soar As the Lasly. Lean meat is promoted by chefs diet centers and importers. They plan to be ready to sol Supply the meat As Well As the Breeding Slock Lor Othor Farmers they expect to gel into the business. Everyone says Venison is Tho meal o the Clarke surveying the Rocky Fields and wooded ravines of his boo acre Hudson Valley Arm. It s Only 3 percent nil it is very Tow in code Sterol. And it s one of the Tew agricultural products whore the demand exceeds the Supply. It s one of the More economical forms of Claire says. There s almost no Tabor. It takes 20 minutes a Day to feed them Corn Hay and some horse Grain and once n year Yve round them up. Give them their a fiefs separate Hie Bucks irom the does.". -. Our Competition is mainly from new zealand says Josef von Kerf Herinck who claims to have Fie largest Deer farm n North America. He raised More than 1,000 animals last year on 600 acres of his 5.000-acre Lucky Sisr ranch in Chaumont near wafer town n.y., and the Canadian Border in new zealand where the government promotes the business there Are nearly 2,000 Deer Farmers they sell mostly to Germany which claims the world s highest annual per Capila consumption o Venison at More than a Pound per person. Frozen new zealand meat also is the main source o Venison Tor american restaurants. -1 Sut in new zealand they raise red Deer which originally were raised for their Antlers for the. Aphrodisiac Market von Kereke Rinck says. He Etal Sfiris allow Deer taste bet Ler. Von founded the North american Deer Farmers association to help others like the Clarkes Start doer farms. There 10membersnow, Cut he noted that the new zealand Deer association. Of which he also is a member has grown irom 12 to 1,300 members in nine Yeats. Von Kef Herinck grew up in a West German Cas be completes with Moal which had been in the family 1or 500 years. He worked at banking advertising and deep cattle terming before lie came to the United states to raise Deer in 197b. Clarke who races hts ancestors to the Iway Flower. Is a Harvard business school graduate and a former senior vice president of Morgan guaranty Trust co. Mrs. Clarke was in the White House press Filce under presidents Nixon and Ford. They say that compared to other types of agr culture Deer farming requires a relatively of nodes capital investment and a Latte overhead and labor. The economics Are a Mare attractive than raising cattle horses or sheep. New zealand researchers found Deer gain almost Sofce the lean meat per acres cattle. And produce Hall the fat. Drew Etta conducted he research says. Deer farming is profitable As sheep or cattle ranch Reg in terms of local Gross margins. Clarke says Hewill Start slaughtering and Selling meat this summer. The meat of the future Eliot Clarke feeds dear by hand at hit 800-Ocr Hudson Valley farm in new York
