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2010 Florida Small Farms and Alternative Enterprises Conference

When:
July 31st and Sunday, August 1st, 2010

Where:
Osceola Heritage Park, Kissimmee Florida, near Orlando

Benefits to small farmers include:
- Discover the latest products and technologies to
• Increase your productivity
• Diversify your operation
• Shave production costs
• Increase your profit

- Listen to cutting-edge presentations that address
• Productivity problems
• Marketing issues
• The future of the industry

- Network with other small producers to find solutions to common problems.

Why Attend:
All Florida small farmers are faced with similar economic challenges such as direct and indirect costs of land, energy and farming inputs. In addition are the constant challenges of regulatory pressures, business and marketing,

The goals of the conference are:
• To provide a forum for discussion of these problems
• To identify potential solutions
• To make this information widely available to small farmer.

Who Should Attend:
The Small Farms Conference is useful and important to all small farmers, allied industry representatives, researchers, educators, institutional members, policy-makers, small farm commodity associations, foundations, and others interested in strengthening the small farm community in Florida.

Partners:
The two Land Grant Universities; The University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) and Florida A&M University are your proud hosts of the conference.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• farming
• small farms
• sustainability
• alternative crops