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Scaling Up: Challenges and Opportunities

11/3/2014

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Scaling Up to Fill the Plate: Sizing Your Vegetable Operation

Overview
With pressure from every direction to scale up market farming operations to meet the growing demand for local food, growers need to consider their goals, roles, capacity, and skills. Chris Blanchard will take you on an exploration of the challenges and opportunities in expanding your market farm.

Outline
1. Goals
2. More Rutabagas Than You Think
3. Segments and Locations
4. Local Food Lies
5. Investments
6. Capacity
7. Invest in Systems
8. Invest in People
9. Produce Buyers
10. Quality
11. Plan for Change
12. Leverage Biology
13. Keep Perspective

Series
In The Market

Topics
Business, Scaling Up

Audience
All Farmers

Length
60 - 120 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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