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The Southern Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Professional Development Program project is addressing ways to help farmers and livestock producers market their livestock products. Livestock production is an important enterprise found on many American small farms. Yet these livestock producers have difficulty marketing their products because of a maze of complicated regulations, market controls, restricted access and lack of information.
The goal of this SARE PDP project is to help producers and marketers increase their knowledge and their income, by training Extension and other personnel who work directly with farmers, ranchers and producers.
The main effort of the project is a train-the-trainer workshop , Producer Managed Marketing of Livestock Products, Sept. 13-15, 2005 in Greensboro, N.C. Marketing, producer-managed processing and slaughter, and other producer issues will be addressed in the six-session program. Representatives from across the South are invited to participate, with the expectation that they use information from the workshop to teach and train producers in their home regions.