Farmer Direct Marketing

Direct Marketing Publications

• Enhancing Commercial Food Service Sales by Small Meat Processing Firms (.pdf format) New!
• The California Agricultural Direct Marketing Study (.pdf format)
• How To Direct-Market Farm Products on the Internet (.pdf format)   
• Farmers Market Fact Sheet
• How to Establish a Farmers Market on Federal Property  
• A Citizen's Guide to Food Recovery
• 2000 National Farmers Market Directory
• Farmer Direct Marketing Bibliography - 2001  - Online and .pdf version available.
• Proceedings of the Farmers Market Development and Minority Participation Workshop (Santa Fe, NM) 
• Direct Marketing Today:  Challenges and Opportunities - In English (.pdf format)    
                                                                                       - In Spanish (.pdf format)   
• Farmers Market Coloring Book  (.pdf format)   (microsoft word)  
• National Directory of Farmers Market and Direct Marketing Associations 2001
• Improving and Facilitating a Farmers Market in a Low-Income Urban Neighborhood:  A Washington, DC, Case Study  (.pdf format)
• U.S. Farmers Markets--2000:  A Study of Emerging Trends (.pdf format) 

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Farm to School Publications

• Innovative Marketing Opportunities for Small Farmers: Local Schools as Customers  (.pdf format)
• How Local Farmers and School Food Service Buyers Are Building Alliances (.pdf format)
• Small Farm Bulletin No. 1 - "Marketing Fresh Produce to Local Schools:  The North Florida Cooperative Experience" (.pdf format)
• Small Farm Bulletin No. 2 - "Cultivating Schools as Customers in a Local Market:  The New North Florida Cooperative" (.pdf format)
• Small Farm Bulletin No. 3 - "Acquiring Capital and Establishing a Credit History:  The North Florida Cooperative Experience" (.pdf format)
• Small Farm Bulletin No. 4 - "Success of the New North Florida Cooperative:  A Progress Report on Producer Direct Sales to School Districts" (.pdf format)

Marketing Services Branch Publications: Selected Executive Summaries

• The Burlington Public Market: Phase I - Producer Survey and Analysis
• A Review of Little Rock's River Market Public Market and Farmers Market Operations  (.pdf format)
• Public Markets: Development and Management of Satellite Markets
  in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Boston Public Market: Facility and Business Development Plan
• Southwest Virginia Shipping-Point Market Project Cooperative Development
  and Facility Design
• Evaluation of the Feasibility of a Centralized Marketing Facility for
  Maine's Agricultural Industries
• Floral Product Marketing in Greater Los Angeles, California
• Redevelopment Plans for the North Market - Columbus, Ohio
• Horticultural Shipping-point Market Project for Southwest Virginia
• The Feasibility of a Mid-Hudson Valley Wholesale Fresh Product Facility
• Thomasville, Georgia, Regional Market Facility Feasibility Study
• Farmers' Market Survey Report
• Green Book/Produce Market Information Directory
 Updated 10/31/03
• Survey of Interest in Creating an Agribusiness Park for
  Selected Maine Resource-based Industries
• New Agricultural Marketing Facilities for Northern Kentucky
• Toledo (Ohio) Fresh Food Public Market, A Feasibility Analysis
• A Model for Determining the Maneuvering Space Requirements for
  Tractor-Trailers at Loading Docks
• Regional Farmers' Market - A Marketing and Design Study
  Conducted for Springfield and Columbia, MO
• The Importance of Wholesale Produce Markets
• Refrigeration Systems for Wholesale Food Distribution Centers
• The Southwestern Michigan Fruit and Vegetable Industry: A Marketing Facilities Analysis
• Wholesale Food Distribution Center Grown and Development (Jessup, Maryland)
• Revitalization of Marketing Facilities for Syracuse, New York
• Feasibility of Establishing a Wholesale Farmers' Market in Upstate South Carolina
• Feasibility of Establishing a Farmers' Market in Tupelo, Mississippi

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