Wholesale Success Workshop - in Idaho Falls, Idaho

This workshop is for farmers and ranchers interested in selling their products to wholesale markets such as restaurants, grocery stores, food service and schools.

At this workshop, you will learn about:

• Working with Wholesale Buyers
• Post-Harvest Handling
• Maintaining the Cold Chain
• Cleaning and Drying
• Packing and Grading
• Food Safety Best Practices

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 wining 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

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.