http://www.valuechains.org/fruitvegetable/postharvest.htm
Post Harvest Handling Tool, One more great idea from Iowa.

http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs/nwl/2009/2009-4-leoletter/local.html
Here are the results from a study by the Leopold Center in Iowa. The findings may surprise a lot of people.

http://sare.org/publications/FromTheField_Schwen1.htm


At Minnesota’s latitude, farmers who can extend their growing season have a distinct advantage in the marketplace: By offering a product outside the “normal” growing season, they can often receive a higher price. That’s what Steven Schwen (Earthen Path Organic Farm) has done with his greenhouse, starting earlier in the year with seedlings of warm-season vege… Continue

Small business owners are encouraged to do things to hold on to or increase business: add value through customer service and tell them the story about your product/farm/business read more at

For the first time ever, the Department of Justice is on a fact-finding mission looking at how big business controls food and farming - and they want to hear from US. They are specifically seeking comments and stories about how corporate control of the food system affects average citizens. If you're concerned that just a few big businesses have so much power over where our food comes from and how it's produced, tell the folks at DoJ! Your comments will help to inform a series of hearings on the… Continue