Jan 17th - Wholesale Success: A Farmer’s Guide to Selling, Postharvest Handling and Packing Produce

The first of three workshops on Postharvest Handling and Food Safety Workshop for Fruit and Vegetable Growers will take place January 17^th in Kansas City, MO.  Each workshop will be slightly different, however each one will have a wholesale buyer panel for you to make contacts as new potential markets.

Participating producers will receive a free copy of FamilyFarmed.org’s Wholesale Success Manual. Normally a $55 value, this 250+ page manual is newly updated, revised, and in its third printing. The manual includes more than 100 crop profiles with with crop-specific information on harvesting, cooling, storing, and packing according to industry standards.

Learn about:

• Post harvest handling

• Food safety needs of wholesale buyers

• Packing and grading
• Maintaining the cold chain

Meet wholesale buyers and start building relationships

Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013

1:30 – 3:30 Postharvest Handling and Food Safety

3:30 – 4:00 Break

4:00 – 6:00 Successful Marketing and Food Safety

6:00 – 6:30 Dinner

6:30 – 8:00 Farmer and Buyer Panel

Where: University of Missouri Platte County Extension Office, 11724 NW Plaza Circle, Suite 300, Kansas City, MO, 816-270-2141,

Registration: Email Katie Nixon or call 660-427-5555.

Presented by: Growing Growers, Kansas City and FamilyFarmed.org