Marketing Your Business

2008-2009 Kentucky Farmers' Market Manual - All the information you need to work at or help manage a farmers' market in KY
KY Farmers Market Report
Are you curious about what prices your product will get at the market? Prices and reports from Farmers' markets around the state. Updated weekly during the season.
KY Produce Auction Price Report
Prices from Fairview, Bath and Lincoln County Produce Auctions, updated weekly throughout the growing/auction season.
ID-134: Marketing Options for Commercial Vegetable Growers
Many Kentucky growers are taking a closer look at commercial vegetable production as a way to increase farm income. This University of Kentucky article gives some of the pros and cons of vegetable marketing and production.
ID-107: Understanding Produce Marketing for Kentucky's Direct Marketers
This University of Kentucky publication offers some suggestions on how to promote and advertise locally- grown fresh produce directly to consumers.
Kentucky MarketMaker is a new Webbased marketing aid adapted for Kentucky markets to provide a link between agricultural producers and potential buyers of food products. MarketMaker also contains demographic and business datayou can use to find new markets for your products. Registering your business is free and easy to do. [more]
For growers who are considering using the Internet for marketing or advertising your farm business, Using the Internet to Market New Crops is a useful introduction to ways you can use a web site and email to sell online, advertise your products, or communicate more effectively with your customers.
Make your own web page (Kentucky Dept. of Agriculture) - walks you through creating a single web page for your farm business.
