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Small Farmers Find
Success In Marketing
WASHINGTON, D.C. The
USDA has issued four “Small Far
mer Success Story” bulletins
which outline the experiences of
the New North Florida
Cooperative.
The bulletins describe how a
group of growers with limited
resources in the northern Florida
area formed a cooperative to mark
et fresh produce to local school
districts.
“An important part of USDA’s
small farm initiative is to encour
age farmers to develop innovative
marketing strategies for value
added products,” said Kathleen A.
Merrigan, administrator of
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing
Service. “We hope that pilot pro
jects like this cooperative serve as
models for small farmers in other
regions of the country.”
The small farm operators organ
ized to concentrate on local school
districts as a market. To provide
fresh, high-quality products, the
cooperative developed a post
harvest handling system including
a packing shed, refrigerated stor
age, a rinsing system, a chopping
system, packaging procedures, and
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transportation practices.
The cooperative worked with
the Gadsden and Jackson County
school districts to provide leafy
green vegetables on a schedule that
would meet the menu plans of the
school food-service directors.
They produced, processed, pack
aged, and delivered an average of
2,000 pounds of leafy greens every
two weeks. They also produced
strawberries and blackberries that
were sold to the schools for
desserts and as additions to the
School Breakfast Program.
The project received support
from AMS, USDA’s Natural
Resources Conservation Service,
the West Florida Resource Conser
vation and Development Council,
and the Small Farmer Outreach
Training and Technical Assistance
Project of Florida A&M
University.
For more information or to
obtain a copy of the bulletins, con
tact Dan Schofer, USDA , 1400
Independence Ave., SW, STOP
0266, Washington, DC
20250-0266. tel. (202) 690-1170,
fax (202) 690-3616, or e-mail
dan.schofer@usda.gov.
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