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Farm Labor: Saving Labor on the Market Farm

11/1/2014

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Saving Labor on the Market Farm

Overview
Market farming is all about moving stuff around; whether you're moving vegetables from the soil to the packing house, water from the well to your transplants, or seeds from their packet to the soil.  From big ideas down to practical examples, consultant, educator, and veteran farmer Chris Blanchard draws on 25 years of farming experience around the country at a wide variety scales to provide this engaging session that will help you better understand the systems and tools for seeding crops in the field and greenhouses, transplanting sets, pruning and greenhouse crop maintenance, weeding tools, harvesters, post-harvest handling, materials handling, and record-keeping.

Outline
1. Overview
2. Capacity
3. Invest in People
4. Invest in Systems
5. Safe and Healthy
6. Automation
7. Saving Time and Work
8. Seeds and Transplants
9. Irrigation
10. Weeds
11. Picking and Packing

Series
On The Farm

Topics
Labor, Production, Systems

Audience
All Farmers

Length
90 - 180 minutes

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    Workshop Topics:
    Business
    Finances
    Food Safety
    Irrigation
    Labor
    Management
    Marketing
    Post Harvest Handling
    Pricing
    Production
    Records Management
    Risk Management
    Scaling Up
    Season Extension
    Systems
    Transplants
    Value Added

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