Market Update

The February 2022 Farmer Direct Newsletter is here!
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Farmer Direct Organic goes Plastic Neutral!

Farmer Direct Organic has partnered with RePurpose Global to offset our plastic footprint.
 
RePurpose Global is the world’s leading Plastic Action Platform dedicated to reducing waste and restoring nature's balance. Through their solution driven approach, RePurpose Global helps companies calculate, reduce, and offset their plastic footprint, while empowering grassroots innovators on the cutting edge of solving for our planet’s future.
 
Farmer Direct Organic is pleased to be collaborating with RePurpose Global on impact project Anant Pranay, which works with a women-owned business in Aurangabad, India to collect and ethically process low-value, soft plastic packaging waste that would otherwise been dumped in overflowing and hazardous landfills.
 
Check out the RePurpose Global website here…
https://repurpose.global/

Growing with Farmer Direct Organic

Farmer Direct Organic has built a traceable, transparent pipeline to market that will assure retailers that the organic products they are selling their customers have organic integrity and are grown by family farmers like you, not imported from faceless corporations being accused and convicted of organic fraud or domestic players who are floating the rules.  
 
Simply put, our strategy to take back markets by combating organic fraud and offshoring through transparency, traceability, pesticide testing ad exclusively sourcing from US and Canadian farms is working and retailers want more of your grains.
 
As a direct example of this, Farmer Direct Organic presented in front of 200 retailers in early November to educate them about our bulk bin program and how it connects the farmers we source our grains from, directly to the buying public. This is done through QR codes and a lot numbering system, presented on the bulk bins, that connects those consumers right back to your family farm. For those producers who are shy we simply need one photo from you and for those characters out there who could be the next viral farmer superstar, feel free to share as much as you’d like with our marketing team.
 
There are over 22,000 independent Natural & Organic foods retailers in the US. This group of retailers drives tremendous volume for organic grains and will pay for organic integrity, domestic production, traceability and can provide the volume to maintain strong prices even in years where the supply of grains is long.
 
We have a real opportunity to establish lasting relationship with retailers that will assure premium prices regardless of the pressures to organic commodity markets.
 
Please call Fabiola Coates at 403-999-4161 if you have grain to market or me, Jason Freeman at 306-201-6948 if you have general questions about FDO.