Below are links to the PowerPoint slides presented by today’s speakers addressing the topics:
– Local Food Systems in the West
– Product Development and Food Safety: Issues for Farms
– Agritourism in the Western US

Presenters include:
  * Martha Sullins, Ag Business Management Specialist, Colorado State University Extension – Local Food Systems in the West
  * Karin Allen, Assistant professor, Department of Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences, Utah State University – Product Development and Food Safety: Issues for Farms
  * Shermain Hardesty, Extension Economist, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California—Davis, and Director of the University of California’s Small Farm Program – Agritourism in the Western US

LINKS to presenter resources:
  * (grants, market information, directories, toolkits)
  * (grants, data sources)
  * Chttps://www.agcensus.usda.gov/
  * http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-markets-prices/local-foods.aspx
  * (EI toolkit, secondary data sources)
  * “Producing and Selling Value-Added Products” full curriculum