USDA Declares National Farmers Market Week Aug. 3-9

The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — and incentives that can double your sales to SNAP recipients — could be an untapped marketing opportunity for your produce .

Break down barriers with proven ideas to put your produce in front of consumers.

SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program allows recipients to redeem funds at both farm and farmers markets, and the number of markets accepting the funds is steadily increasing nationwide.

Davis, CA, is a college town, specifically an agricultural college town, as the university was recently ranked as […]

Editor’s note: King presented this information in January 2013 at the Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention in Pennsylvania. […]

Farmers’ markets have been a good way of providing consumers with locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables. Producers […]

The Pennsylvania Apple Marketing Program is once again encouraging consumers to visit local farm markets through a marketing […]

The fourth annual Florida Small Farms and Alternative Enterprises Conference was held in Kissimmee in July. The event […]

In a recent teleconference, Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced a 9.6% increase in National Farmers’ Market Directory […]