MFMA's Annual Conference is Wednesday & Thursday, December 6 & 7, 2023 from 9am - 4pm both days. Below is the list of topics suggested to date. We will move some of these topics to our Minnesota Farmers' Market Academy - free zoominars December 2023 through April 2024.

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CONFERENCE TOPICS LIST

• Recap of 2023 MN Legislative session & issues we're working on for 2024
• • Organizing MN's 375 farmers' markets for 2024 issues
• MFMA's new grants: 
• Field Conditions & Market Price Reports
• Emerging Farmers technical Assistance: 65% Refund for Premiums Paid for the Micro Farm Insurance Policy
• What did FM360 tell us this year?

• Manager panel: all the 2023 issues!!
• • Preparing for more extreme weather - what's our plan?
  • Produce farmers suffering hail damage
  • How to verify farmers & vendors practices?
• Launch our Farmers' Market Academy - zoominars for managers & vendors
• Market Bucks update from Hunger solutions
• Market software - Manage My Market
• Marketing: how to use videos; what's beyond social media?
• How financially sustainable are our markets? Lessons learned from PPS training
• Post market sales streams: what doesn't sell at market, can we connect vendors to wholesale buyers?
• Growing more farmers:
• • How can we work with the Emerging Farmers Office?
  • What about urban ag food production?
  • What's happening with youth vendors at markets?
• How can we build the foodshed infrastructure our vendors need? 
• • Farmers' market food hubs and their LFPA contracts
• Changes coming in 2024 to WIC

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