This one-hour session focuses on issues important to small and medium-sized farms. Attendees will learn techniques they can put in place immediately to improve produce safety on their farms.
* The Small-Scale Wash Pack: Tips and Tricks to Improve Food Safety and Efficiency
Have you dreamed about the perfect wash pack while the one you have feels like a perfect nightmare? Are you sick of constantly tripping over something while trying to wash produce? This half-hour talk will show how other growers solve produce flow problems in their wash pack. Attendees will be able to take home an idea or two that can make their lives a little more sane in the wash pack come harvest time.
10:30am - 11:00am
Sarah Geurkink - Organic Association of Kentucky
Bryan Brady - University of Kentucky
* Delivering Outstanding Produce Safety Worker Training on a Budget
Worker training is essential to effective produce safety implementation. That said, you don't need to spend weeks on it to do an excellent job. Join us in this half-hour session to get tools and strategies you can implement quickly, free and painlessly to meet your produce safety goals.
11:00am - 11:30am
Phil Tocco - Michigan State University
Phillip Tocco - Michigan State University
Bryan Brady - University of Kentucky