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Browsing by Author "Vallotton, Amber"

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    2020 Virginia Tech Eastern Shore AREC Virtual Research Field Day
    Reiter, Mark S.; Deitch, Ursula; Pittman, Theresa; Flessner, Michael; Rideout, Steven L.; Zhang, Bo; Vallotton, Amber; Thomason, Wade E.; Wolters, Bethany; Templeton, Jenny; Lawrence, Cris; Strawn, Laura K.; Neill, Clinton L.; Sutton, Kemper; Britt, Kadie; Boyle, Sean; Pagini, Mika; Kuhar, Thomas P. (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2020-08-18)
    Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center Virtual Research Field day includes various presentations and publications of the authors’ above, which are each linked in the body of the publication
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    Accessing Virginia Market Sectors: Establishing a Market Perspective
    Vallotton, Amber; Battah, Alexandra; Knox, Ryan; Vargo, Adrianna; Archibald, Thomas G.; Boyer, Renee R.; Cook, Natalie E.; Drape, Tiffany A. (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2017-11-27)
    Discusses marketing perspective, and emphasizes the importance of understanding the market, before investing lots of time, effort and money.
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    Accessing Virginia's College & University Market Sector: Fresh Produce Food Safety Considerations
    Vallotton, Amber; Battah, Alexandra; Knox, Ryan; Vargo, Adrianna; Archibald, Thomas G.; Boyer, Renee R.; Cook, Natalie E.; Drape, Tiffany A. (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2017-11-27)
    Highlights from a 2015-2016 market assessment survey are discussed in this document.
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    Accessing Virginia's Hospital Market Sector: Fresh Produce Food Safety Considerations
    Vallotton, Amber; Battah, Alexandra; Knox, Ryan; Vargo, Adrianna; Archibald, Thomas G.; Boyer, Renee R.; Cook, Natalie E.; Drape, Tiffany A. (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2017-11-27)
    Discusses hospitals as a potential market for locally grown foods and products. Identifies school purchasing priorities, and some of the likely barriers to purchasing.
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    Accessing Virginia's Market Sectors: Fresh Produce Purchasing Considerations
    Vallotton, Amber; Battah, Alexandra; Knox, Ryan; Vargo, Adrianna; Archibald, Thomas G.; Boyer, Renee R.; Cook, Natalie E.; Drape, Tiffany A. (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2017-11-17)
    Discusses the results of a survey of colleges and universities, direct-to-consumer markets, hospitals, public schools, restaurants, retailers and regional wholesalers.
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    Accessing Virginia's Public School (K-12) Market Sector: Fresh Produce Safety Considerations
    Vallotton, Amber; Battah, Alexandra; Knox, Ryan; Vargo, Adrianna; Archibald, Thomas G.; Boyer, Renee R.; Cook, Natalie E.; Drape, Tiffany A. (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2017-11-27)
    Discusses public schools as a potential market for locally grown foods and products. Identifies school purchasing priorities, and some of the likely barriers to purchasing.
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    Accessing Virginia's Regional Wholesale Market Sector: Fresh Produce Safety Considerations
    Vallotton, Amber; Battah, Alexandra; Knox, Ryan; Vargo, Adrianna; Archibald, Thomas G.; Boyer, Renee R.; Cook, Natalie E.; Drape, Tiffany A. (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2017-11-17)
    Discusses wholesale market distributors and regional food hubs, and how to market locally grown food crops to them. Also notes the results of a 2015-2016 a Virginia statewide market assessment survey.
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    Antimicrobial Resistance: What is it and What's at Stake?
    Maurer, Ellen; Vallotton, Amber; Pruden, Amy (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2017-10-25)
    Examines the issue of bacterial resistance to antimicrobial drugs, and the implications for human health.
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    Are you a Beginning Farmer?
    Kloetzli, Cathryn; Vallotton, Amber; Niewolny, Kimberly L. (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2013-11-19)
    The purpose of this tool is to help you gather a solid basis of information as you consider your start-up situation. Once you have completed as much as you can of this worksheet (or if you have any questions along the way), please bring it to your local Virginia Cooperative Extension office to get guidance on where to go next.
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    Assessing On-Farm Produce Safety Risks: General Practices
    Understanding on-farm produce safety risks is essential for all farms who grow, harvest, pack, hold and/or ship fruits and vegetables. Assessing the general practices of a farm operation is the second step to developing and implementing best practices to reduce those risks and reduce potential produce contamination. This publication is the second in a series of seven factsheets to assist farmers in creating a food safety program
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    Assessing On-Farm Produce Safety Risks: Harvest Stage
    Understanding on-farm produce safety risks are essential for all farms who grow, pack, harvest, hold and/or ship fruits and vegetables. Identifying risks that may be associated on the farm during the harvest stage, is the fifth step to developing and implementing best practices to reduce those risks and reduce potential produce contamination. This publication is the fifth in a series of six publications to assist the industry in creating a food safety program
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    Assessing On-Farm Produce Safety Risks: Performing a Hazard Analysis
    Bardsley, Cameron; Vallotton, Amber; Edwards, Ashley; Strawn, Laura K. (2021)
    Understanding on-farm produce safety risks is essential for all farms who grow, harvest, pack, hold and/or ship fruits and vegetables. The first step to developing and implementing best practices to reduce risks and reduce potential produce contamination is to perform a hazard analysis, where producers identify risks that may be associated on their farm. This publication is the first in a series of seven factsheets to assist farmers in creating a food safety program
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    Assessing On-Farm Produce Safety Risks: Post-Harvest Handling Stage
    Understanding on-farm produce safety risks are essential for all farms who grow, pack, harvest, hold and/or ship fruits and vegetables. Developing and implementing best practices to reduce risks and reduce potential produce contamination during the post-harvest handling stage is critical. This publication is the sixth in a series of seven factsheet publications to assist farmers in creating a food safety program.
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    Assessing On-Farm Produce Safety Risks: Pre-Plant Stage
    Understanding on-farm produce safety risks is essential for all farms who grow, harvest, pack, hold and/or ship fruits and vegetables. Identifying risks that may be associated on the farm during the pre-plant stage is the third step to developing and implementing best practices to reduce those risks and reduce potential produce contamination. This publication is the third in a series of seven factsheets to assist farmers in creating a food safety program
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    Assessing On-Farm Produce Safety Risks: Preparing for GAP Certification
    Understanding on-farm produce safety risks is essential for all farms who grow, harvest, pack, hold and/or ship fruits and vegetables. After a farmer has developed and implemented best practices to reduce risks and contamination during each stage, they are ready to prepare for a GAP audit and certification. This publication is the seventh in a series of seven factsheets to assist farmers in creating a food safety program.
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    Assessing On-Farm Produce Safety Risks: Production Stage
    Understanding on-farm produce safety risks are essential for all farms who grow, harvest, pack, hold and/or ship fruits and vegetables. Identifying risks that may be associated on the farm during the production stage is the fourth step to developing and implementing best practices to reduce those risks and reduce potential produce contamination. This publication is the fourth in a series of seven factsheet publications to assist farmers in creating a food safety program
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    Battling Resistance: Judicious Antibiotic Use in Beef and Dairy Cattle
    Gleason, Claire B.; Maurer, Ellen; Knowlton, Katharine F.; Vallotton, Amber (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2017-11-06)
    Discusses the use of antibiotics in the dairy and beef cattle industry, and the increasing drug-resistance of many strains of bacteria.
  • Catalyzing Agricultural and Educational Resources to Move the Local Food Value Chain Needle in the Shenandoah Valley and Northern Piedmont Regions of Virginia
    Bendfeldt, Eric S.; Latimer, Joyce G.; Niewolny, Kimberly L.; Morgan, Kim O.; Vallotton, Amber; Price, E. French; Marston, Cyndi; Love, Kenner; Sutphin, Mark; Sastre-Flores, Beth; Cooper, Jason; Mize, Tim; Hilleary, Jim (2019-10-08)
    The Shenandoah Valley and Northern Piedmont Regions of Virginia are fortunate to have agricultural, cultural, and educational resources to catalyze and strengthen Virginia’s food system from farm-to-table. Despite growing demand and support for local food systems, barriers to sustainable success remain for farmers and food businesses, including limited or unwieldy value chain coordination, logistical hurdles, lack of transparent market signals, and inadequate scale, match and fit between producers and buyers.Educational outreach and value chain coordination has included: a Farm2Fork Affair and ongoing producer-buyer networking, Virginia Market Readiness Farm to Restaurant Workshops, On-farm Food Safety Walkthroughs, exploring a Soil Health Awareness/Action Campaign, and expanding the scope of the Shenandoah Valley and Northern Piedmont Buy Fresh Buy Local chapters in coordination with Virginia Market Maker.
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    Changes to USDA GAP & GHP, Produce Harmonized GAP, and Harmonized GAP Plus+ Audit Billing and Scheduling
    Vallotton, Amber; Bowen, Eric (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2019-06-17)
    Discusses auditing conducted by VDACS, and recent changes in requirements, fee structure, etc.
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    Changes to USDA GAP and GHP, Produce Harmonized GAP, and Harmonized GAP Plus+ Audit Billing and Scheduling
    Vallotton, Amber; Bowen, Eric (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2019-03-29)
    Discusses auditing conducted by VDACS, and recent changes in requirements, fee structure, etc.