Specialty Crops Conference, 2007

The UC Small Farm Program hosted the 2007 Specialty Crops Conference on Dec. 12-13, 2007. The event consisted of a day of conference presentations at UC Davis, followed by a limited-seats bus tour of Bay Area markets.

Read about it:

A special edition of Small Farm News reviews the events of the 2007 Specialty Crops Conference. The newsletter also includes summaries of each conference presentation.

Presentations:

Below are pdf copies of each PowerPoint presentation given by speakers at the Specialty Crops Conference.

Specialty Fruits and Vegetables (2.37 MB)
Richard Molinar, Small Farm advisor for Fresno County, and Michael Yang, program representative for Small Farm Program
Produce Food Safety and Postharvest Handling (4.1 MB)
James Gorny, executive director of UC Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center
Grower Returns in Alternative Marketing Channels (113 kb)
Shermain Hardesty, director of UC Small Farm Program
Pitahaya/Dragon Fruit (4.1 MB)
Ramiro Lobo, Small Farm advisor for San Diego County
Consumer Preferences: Colors & Flavors (7.46 MB)
Aziz Baameur, Small Farm advisor for Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties
Reinventing the "Tasting of Summer Produce" (2.85 MB)
Sibella Kraus, preident of Sustainable Agriculture Education
Specialty Crops (32.5 MB)
Manuel Jimenez, Small Farm advisor for Tulare County
Market for US-grown Botanicals (1.3 MB)
Josef Brinckmann, vice president of research & development for Traditional Medicinals
New Enterprise Screening Tool (481 kb)
Ramiro Lobo, Small Farm advisor for San Diego County
Determining What to Grow: Looking at Markets (1.8 MB)
Mark Gaskell, Small Farm advisor for Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties