For many farmers and ranchers, branching into institutional sales alone might seem daunting. Some producers may rely on independent distributors or co-ops to engage with these markets.<\/p>\n
This newly archived webinar on the ATTRA website, NCAT and partners discuss topics including developing partnerships, direct marketing, wholesaling, forward contracting, utilizing MOU\u2019s, and briefly, food safety.<\/p>\n
Though focused on Montana, the principles discussed in the video can be applied elsewhere in the country.<\/p>\n
Go directly to the hour-long video<\/a> or find it on the ATTRA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For many farmers and ranchers, branching into institutional sales alone might seem daunting. Some producers may rely on independent distributors or co-ops to engage with these markets. This newly archived webinar on the ATTRA website, NCAT and partners discuss topics including developing partnerships, direct marketing, wholesaling, forward contracting, utilizing MOU\u2019s, and briefly, food safety. Though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":27,"label":"Announcements"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/maine-farmer-resource-network\/author\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"Announcements","slug":"announcements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":317,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":27,"category_count":317,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Announcements","category_nicename":"announcements","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/maine-farmer-resource-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/maine-farmer-resource-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/maine-farmer-resource-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/maine-farmer-resource-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/maine-farmer-resource-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/maine-farmer-resource-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/maine-farmer-resource-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/maine-farmer-resource-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/maine-farmer-resource-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/maine-farmer-resource-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}