Thursday, February 18, 2016

Wholesale Success: Wholesale Marketing, Handling. Quality and Food Safety Workshops

Wholesale Marketing, Postharvest Handling, Product Quality

and On-Farm Food Safety Workshop
Risk Management is Good Business:
Best Practices for Specialty Crop Farmers

These workshops are for farmers and ranchers interested in selling their products to wholesale markets such as restaurants, grocery stores, food service and schools.

Space is limited - REGISTER TODAY!
Locations & Dates (lunch is included!)


Shoshone, 1-day workshop, $25
February 22, 2016 ~ 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Idaho Falls, 1-day workshop, $25
February 24, 2016 ~ 8:30 am - 4:30 pm


Ø  Working with Wholesale Buyers
Ø  Post-Harvest Handling
Ø  Maintaining the Cold Chain
Ø  Cleaning and Drying
Ø  Packing and Grading
Ø  Food Safety Best Practices
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To register visit click on your preferred location: 







Participating farmers will receive a free copy of the Wholesale Success manual. Normally a $70 value, this 316 page manual is newly updated and in its fourth printing. Wholesale Success covers up-to-date best practices information on food safety, postharvest handling, packing, business management, marketing, and crop-specific profiles for over 100 crops.
Our trainer, Atina Diffley, is an organic farmer and author of the 2012 award winning memoir, Turn Here Sweetcorn, Organic Farming Works. Atina draws on her decades of experience in vegetable production and marketing to provide operators of produce farms of any size with useful, practical, profit-making guidance on how to achieve the highest quality produce for sale!
Brought to you by:
University of Idaho Extension, FamilyFarmed.org and USDA Risk Management Agency
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To enrich education through diversity the University of Idaho is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and educational institution. In compliance with the American Disabilities Act of 1990, people needing accommodations need to contact Colette two weeks prior to the workshop cdephelps@uidaho.edu.

University of Idaho Extension & FamilyFarmed.org
 
Colette DePhelps
Associate in Community Food Systems & Small Farms
University of Idaho Extension, Moscow, ID

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