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  • From: MariavHM AT aol.com
  • To: iffs AT nal.usda.gov, market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Help!: Looking for contract commitments to buy from local farmers
  • Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:16:44 EDT

We are looking for language to put in a contract with a large institutional
food service to require them to purchase products from local  farms.  Has
anyone had experience in this type of negotiations and if so could you
recommend key language to negotiate?  Did you incorporate dollar volumes,
percent of sales, number of farms, or other goals/benchmarks?  How did you
define the product - grown in state, by what size farmers?  What about
products processed in the state, bought from local farmers - how did you
specify the amount of product purchased from local farms? We are interested
in actual experiences and contracts.
Thank you.

Duane Perry
Farmers' Market Trust
Future of Our Food and Farms Summit
http://www.ibiblio.org/farming-connection/fffconf/
1201 Chestnut St 4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-568-0830 Ext 11
215-568-0882 FAX




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