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Finding Food in MT Farm Country - Not as Easy as You'd Think

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012   

GREAT FALLS, Mont. - "Finding food in farm country" is the focus of a Montana Farmers Union workshop this Thursday in Great Falls. Although the state is well known for wheat and cattle-calf operations, ready-to-use local products for the dinner table are tougher to find, and MFU is committed to changing that.

Ken Meter, president of the Crossroads Resource Center in Minneapolis, will lead the discussion to dig into the details of local food development, which includes crop diversity, processing, storage, distribution and recycling.

"Rural regions can be much stronger because they'll have a better ability to trap the money they make and create wealth from it. They'll have a better ability to negotiate their own terms, instead of just following what someone else says the price should be, or the product they should raise is."

Meter presented research into the local food-market potential of the Golden Triangle region at the MFU convention in October. He says there's a $362 million market for food in the area, and almost all of it is shipped in from other states and other countries.

"It's a pretty substantial market, but there's no infrastructure that makes it efficient to trade food from local farms to local customers."

Meter says the workshop isn't just for farmers and ranchers. Direct marketers, food processors, CSA providers, local leaders, chefs and community gardeners will also find the information useful. The day-long event begins at 8:30 a.m. at the Great Falls Holiday Inn.



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