Farmer Direct Marketing Newsletters
Current Issue: Spring
2000
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Past Issues:
Contents:
USDA Activities:
Glickman Confirms Commitment to Small Farms and Announces AMS Partnership with SARE
Direct Marketing in the News:
"Immigrant Farmers Bring Techniques, Seeds and Crops to U.S." (AP, 1/25/2000)
Announcements:
New List Server - "Market-Farming"
The United States 2000 Census - Rural America Counts!
North Country (NY) Food and Economic Security Project
Articles
Travel the Road to Success with a Marketing Plan (Wen-fei Uva, Cornell University Extension)
Do You Know What the Small Business Administration Has To Offer?
Small Businesses Are Backbone of Communities (Metta Winter, Cornell University)
Production,
Processing, and Marketing Opportunities for Athens County, Ohio, Farmers:
Assessing Needs and
Creating Solutions (Penrose, Smith and Vollborn. Journal of Extension. December 1999)
October/November/December 1999
Contents:
USDA Activities:
New Publications from
the Wholesale and Alternative Markets Program
Bulletins on Marketing
Fresh Produce to Local Schools Available
Cooperative Agreement
with North American Farmer's Direct Marketing Association (NAFDMA) Signed
Cooperative Agreement
with Cornell University Extension Signed
Architect Joins
Wholesale and Alternative Markets Program Staff
Direct Marketing in the News:
"Small
Farmers, Needing to Grow, Coming to Web" (AP, 12/11/99)
"The Virtual Farmers' Market: Specialty Foods Going Online" (AP, 12/11/99)
"To Market, To Market: Consumers, Feds, and Farmers Agree - The Spread of Farmers'
Markets is Good for Kansas" (The
Wichita Eagle, 10/9/99)
"Fall Prime Time for Pumpkin Patch Boom" (AP, 9/21/99)
"Farmers' Markets Sprout Up Across America" (Reuters, 9/9/99)
"Bill Increases Fee to Keep Popular Markets Alive" (AP, 9/3/99)
"Extension's Role With Farmers' Markets: Working with Farmers, Consumers, and
Communities"
(Abel, Thomson, and Maretzki. Journal of Extension. October 1999)
Announcements
Northeast Food System Partnership's New Website
Many Exciting Conferences and Workshops To Be Held This Winter and Spring~
Leopold Study on Potential for Local Sales for Iowa Apple Industry Released
King County (WA) Marketing Guide and Directory of Commercial Buyers of Farm Products
New in Print or on Video About Direct Marketing:
CSA Farms in the United States 1999-2000
Marketing Strategies for Farmers and Ranchers
The Seasongal Marketer
Audiotapes from USDA's Second National Small Farm Conference (October 1999)
Contents:
USDA Activities:Direct Marketing in the News:
"Farmers’ markets to hit every town
in Britan" (Reuters, 8/16/99)
"Farmers try direct approach to
marketing" (AP, 8/16/99)
Announcements:
Sustainable Development Challenge Grants
(Environmental Protection Agency)
Small Farm Success Stories Wanted
National Organic Harvest Month
North Central Region SARE’s Marketing
Conference: Alternative Agricultural Marketing: Developing Skills for the New Millenium
Western SARE – Call for Grant Proposals
Northeast SARE – Call for Grant Proposals
New in Print or on Video about Direct Marketing:
The Legal Guide for Direct Farm Marketing
– Neil Hamilton, Drake University
Video: Farmers and Their Diversified
Horticultural Marketing Strategies
USDA Activities:
Proceedings of the
Farmers Market Development and Minority Participation Workshop
USDA-Sponsored Farmers
Markets in DC - Summer 1999
Direct Marketing Focus
Group Presentation at USDA
1999 U.S. Food Export
Showcase, Chicago, IL
Features:
Quote by Secretary of
Agriculture, Dan Glickman (Indiana, April 29, 1999)
A Great Idea: San
Rafael Farmers' Market Weekly E-mail Newsletter
Feeding 200 People with
Locally Grown, Seasonal Food in Northern Idaho in March? (Peggy
Adams, Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute, Idaho)
Announcements:
Small Business
Innovation Research Program (USDA)
New in Print/Audio - Publications/Tapes About Direct Marketing:
SARE Tip Sheet #2: Add
Value Through Marketing
AMS "How to
Buy" Guides Available
"Sharing the
Harvest: A Guide to Community-Supported Agriculture"
Contents:
USDA Activities:
The USDA sponsored
Santa Fe Farmers Market Conference
Agricultural Marketing
Outreach Workshop for Limited Resource Farmers - Information and Remarks by
Under Secretary Michael V. Dunn
Update on the
Burlington, VT, Public Market Feasibility Study
Report on USDA Farmer
Direct Marketing Focus Groups Held in Memphis, TN
Features:
1997 Census of
Agriculture and Direct Marketing
Announcements:
"Law and the New
Agriculture: Direct Marketing and Local Food Systems" - Neil Hamilton of
Drake
University's 4-day course to be offered this summer
Community Food Security
Coalition Workshops
New in Print/Audio - Publications/Tapes about Direct Marketing:
Getting Food on the
Table: An Action Guide to Local Food Policy (Community Food Security Coalition)
From the Field to the
Table:Suggested Food Handling Guidelines for Open-Air Farmers' Markets and Fairs
(ECOnomics Institute)
Audio Tapes from
"Cultivating the Harvest: Inland Northwest Small Acreage Farming Conference
Contents:
Introduction
Wholesale and Alternative Markets Activities:
Farmer Direct Marketing
Bibliography Available
USDA Hosts Farmer
Direct Marketing Focus Group
Notes on the Northeast
Sustainable Agriculture Working Groups's 5th Annual Resource Harvest
USDA News Releases:
USDA Invites State
Participation in Marketing Improvement Program (12/15/98)
USDA Offers Farmer
Direct Marketing Information on the Internet (11/18/98)
New Directory Shows
Farmers Markets on the Rise (11/12/98)
Features:
"Featured
Market/Market Manager" - American Farmland Trust's FRESHFARM Market
Research in Progress at
Cornell
Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
November 1998 - Introduction to Website and Newsletter