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This session you will learn how to know your markets and grow what they demand. Conduct market research, Building relationships with customers both wholesale and retail; promoting your farm and marketing plans

We will also be learning about implements for no till gardening. Participants will learn how to use a paper pot transplanter and seeder.

• Sell farm products & services
• Distribute farm products (e.g. deliver, ship)
• Obtain customer feedback
• Keep good records (e.g. customer comments, competition, price changes, sales, promotional activities)
• Conduct market research (e.g. research industry, competition, markets/customers, production potential, marketing strategies)
• Prepare marketing plan (e.g. pricing, marketing strategies, logo, product line, target customers, sales potential, promotion, product placement, labor needs, consumer trends, name, organic/”green” label options, potential for value-adding)
• Research legal requirements (e.g. zoning, organizational structure, product handling, liability, tax abatement options, development rights)
• Prepare annual/seasonal marketing plan (e.g. marketing strategies, sales outlets [on-farm, farmers’ markets, retail, wholesale], pricing, value adding).
• Monitor market conditions (e.g. price, supply, competition, consumer trends)
• Develop promotional materials
• Promote farm products & services (e.g. advertise, participate in “buy local” or “green label” campaigns)
• Obtain necessary supplies (e.g. scales, receipt books, cash box, packaging, labels)
• Contact buyers (e.g. retail and/or wholesale)
• Inventory tools, equipment & supplies
• Acquire necessary tools, equipment & supplies (e.g. purchase, borrow, rent)
• Monitor condition of tools & equipment
• Maintain tools & equipment

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Participants will learn the requirements of the USDA Livestock watering grant, will learn how to operate a trencher, install PVC water lines, and witness the certification and sign off from the USDA upon completion of the class

Skills Taught:

1. Basic construction
2. Basic fabrication
3. Farm tool safety
4. Build and install infrastructure
5. Material supply calculations
6. Infrastructure damage prevention
7. Farm safety
8. Farm infrastructure development planning

Instructors:

Doug Havemann, Army Veteran, Co – Owner, Mesquite Field Farm Melissa Havemann, Co-Owner, Mesquite Field Farm, NRCS

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