CCD-MP-12: Adding Value to Plant Production: A Summary of Kentucky Products

Matthew Ernst | Jun. 28, 2011 (New)

While a complete list of value-added crop products is impractical due to the number of these products marketed from Kentucky crops, producers considering new value-added enterprises may be helped by a summary of products with similar marketing characteristics. The major types of value-added products derived from Kentucky-grown crops listed here are grouped by marketing characteristics. This profile also includes brief summaries of several Kentucky value-added producer success stories.

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CCD-MP-14: Adding Value to Plant Production: An Overview

Matthew Ernst | Jun. 28, 2011 (New)

"Value-added agriculture" is a broad term encompassing many practices that increase the value of farm products. Value-added agriculture has come to describe practices as varied as agritourism activities that provide consumers value from visiting a farm to large-scale processing endeavors that create mass-market retail food products from commodity crops.