{"id":29272,"date":"2025-01-15T18:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T18:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/market-opportunities-for-farmers-from-socially-disadvantaged-communities\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T18:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T18:26:22","slug":"market-opportunities-for-farmers-from-socially-disadvantaged-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=29272","title":{"rendered":"Market opportunities for farmers from \u201csocially disadvantaged\u201d communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If you are a \u201csocially disadvantaged\u201d Vermont farmer or food producer who is selling or is willing to sell direct-to-consumer or direct-to-institution and who is looking to find a new institutional market, add your contact information to <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/forms.office.com\/g\/1JmF7B6668');\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/g\/1JmF7B6668\">this farmer signup form<\/a>\u00a0by February 28 to self-identify as eligible and interested in selling to organizations who will distribute food to underserved communities.<br \/>The Agency of Agricuture,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3431\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/wagn\/files\/2023\/02\/20D8315B-0F03-4379-BBDD-AFE2576D09D8-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/wagn\/files\/2023\/02\/20D8315B-0F03-4379-BBDD-AFE2576D09D8-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/wagn\/files\/2023\/02\/20D8315B-0F03-4379-BBDD-AFE2576D09D8-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/wagn\/files\/2023\/02\/20D8315B-0F03-4379-BBDD-AFE2576D09D8-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/wagn\/files\/2023\/02\/20D8315B-0F03-4379-BBDD-AFE2576D09D8-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/wagn\/files\/2023\/02\/20D8315B-0F03-4379-BBDD-AFE2576D09D8-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Food and Markets (AAFM) has provided several organizations federal funds to purchase foods from \u201csocially disadvantaged farms\u201d and distribute it to \u201cunderserved communities\u201d (as defined by USDA).<\/p>\n<p>According to the USDA definition for these funds, a \u201cSocially Disadvantaged Farmer or Rancher is a farmer or rancher who is a member of a Socially Disadvantaged Group. A Socially Disadvantaged Group is a group whose members have been subject to discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, and, where applicable, sex, marital status, familial status, parental status, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, political beliefs, reprisal, or because all or apart of an individual\u2019s income is derived from any public assistance program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AAFM has 5 projects underway with community partners and are currently in the process of finalizing the next round of project recipients. AAFM anticipates more funding coming from USDA this year. <\/p>\n<p>Interested farmer\/producer information will be shared with entities that have received funding; AAFM does not guarantee any sales will result from the connection nor do they endorse any entity, but they are happy to make the connections. Please fill out the form before February 28th to make it on the first copy of the interested producer list, which AAFM will periodically update thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Questions? Contact Julia at <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/mailto\/Julia.Scheier@vermont.gov');\" class=\"linkified\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/wagn\/2023\/02\/20\/market-opportunities-for-farmers-from-socially-disadvantaged-communities\/mailto:Julia.Scheier@vermont.gov\">Julia.Scheier@vermont.gov<\/a> or 802-522-7042<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"entry-author-info\">\n<div id=\"author-avatar\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cdc20c30413e224a7c7b1c85d954c8e6?s=60&amp;d=blank&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cdc20c30413e224a7c7b1c85d954c8e6?s=120&amp;d=blank&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-60 photo\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- #author-avatar --><\/p>\n<div id=\"author-description\">\n<h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout Beth Holtzman\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBeth Holtzman is outreach and education coordinator for the UVM New Farmer Project the Women&#8217;s Agricultural Network.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- #author-link\t-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- #author-description -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a \u201csocially disadvantaged\u201d Vermont farmer or food producer who is selling or is willing to sell direct-to-consumer or direct-to-institution and who is looking to find a new institutional market, add your contact information to this farmer signup form\u00a0by February 28 to self-identify as eligible and interested in selling to organizations who will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12026],"tags":[10928,19827,15919,11209,14445,19826],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-29272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-communities","tag-disadvantaged","tag-farmers","tag-market","tag-opportunities","tag-socially"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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