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Retail Ready training for Buyers and Growers
Are you a local food grower, or do you know one? “Retail Ready” is a new program designed to teach best commercial business practices between growers and various retail markets. The Miami County and Greene County OSU Extension offices, along with the Ohio Dept. of Agriculture are teaming up to offer this training:
Tuesday, March 23 from 1-4 pm in the Buckeye room of the Greene County Extension office at 100 Fairground Road in Xenia.
Growth in demand for local foods, together with the growth in direct marketing by smaller-scale producers amplifies the need for grower training on what buyers need to more readily fit into their buying procedures. Most buyers are anxious to work with local growers to market their local products, but have also expressed frustration at the lack of grower awareness of their preferred buying practices. This training should help growers and retailers build more successful market relationships.
Retail Ready training was developed with generous assistance from the National MarketMaker program and the University of Arkansas Applied Sustainability Center.
For more information contact Brian Raison at raison.1@osu.edu or Beth Bridgeman at bridgeman.7@osu.edu or call 372-9971.
Producers will evaluate their readiness by reviewing resources and a checklist of various topics related to how to package, label, price, invoice, deliver, meet quality and insurance standards, and much more. Please let others know about this workshop. Cost is $30. Call the Miami or Greene County OSU Extension office, or mail your check, payable to: OSU Extension, 201 West Main St., Troy, OH 45373. Registration deadline is 3/19.
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