Cornell Cooperative Extension

Allegany County

Farm Marketing

The Guide to Marketing Channel Assessment: How to Sell Through Wholesale and Direct Marketing Channels - Where and How to Market Your Products Whether you’re still deciding where to market your products or you’ve already been selling through various channels, this guide will give you some tools to evaluate the success of these market channels and make sure they’re the best fit and most profitable for your business.

Guide to Farming in NY This publication provide several fact sheets related to marketing specific to NYS from assessing markets to pricing, regulation to taxes. 


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Lynn Bliven
Ag & Natural Resources Issue Leader
lao3@cornell.edu
585-268-7644 ext 18

Last updated September 1, 2020

Agriculture

MeatSuite Marketing Website Expanding

Banner image for meatsuite.com for use by Tompkins and Steuben Counties

Freezer trade meat sales are the most efficient direct marketing channel for farmers and the most affordable way for consumers to buy meat. The Meat Suite, developed by Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County, is an online directory where consumers can find a farm near them that is selling locally raised meat in quarters or halves. A recent grant from NYFVI is helping expand the project and will now including Allegany County. For more information contact Lynn Bliven lao3@cornell.edu. To add your farm to the directory visit www.meatsuite.com

Nationwide, consumer demand for local food is stronger than ever and the trend is also gaining momentum in this region, demonstrated by the growing number of farmers markets, roadside stands, farm stores, community supported agriculture farms, specialty food retail stores, and even local food ingredients being used in restaurant menu items. Get connected through From the Ground Up local food in Allegany, Cattaraugus, & Chautauqua Counties.

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