and vegetables, to be sold in local grocery stores, gift shops and farmers markets. It allows farmers to process produce at a higher level than typical home-based production. Developing value-added agricultural products is a worthwhile endeavor for limited-resource farmers because of the higher returns that come with the investment, the opportunity to enter new markets and extend the producer's marketing season as well as the ability to create new recognition for the farm.

The Poultry Processing Unit is a USDA-permitted and certified mobile processing facility for poultry, fish and rabbits to help small-scale farmers prepare for packaging and sales.

KYSU's newest mobile service is the Bee Autoclave, which began operating in May 2017. The autoclave is used to sterilize used beehives that could be contaminated by viruses, pests, diseases and pesticides, which would affect the health of a bee colony. Each load of equipment sterilized in the autoclave can potentially save a beekeeper over $2,000 in equipment alone and provides future bee colonies a safe and sterile home.

of equipment sterilized in the autoclave can potentially save a beekeeper over $2,000 in equipment alone and provides future bee colonies a safe and sterile home.

The KYSU Land Grant Program also manages the Thorobred Nutrition Kitchen, a 24-foot mobile kitchen that works to provide education to communities and families across Kentucky on topics of nutrition, healthy cooking and improving food access with fresh produce and ready-made healthy foods, as well as a mobile sorghum press. The mobile sorghum press can be transported to a farmer's field to help with on-site processing of sorghum, which makes the cutting and squeezing production processes for sorghum easier.