The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) invites you to a free, interactive webinar on USDA’s Fruit and Vegetable Market News, a Web-based resource that provides price and movement data for hundreds of agricultural commodities. Market News reports cover this information for domestic and international wholesale markets, production areas and ports of entry.
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012, Time: 2 – 3 p.m., Eastern Time
Whether you’re a grower, packer, processor, wholesaler, distributor or a representative from academia and government – if you’re part of the fruit and vegetable industry this webinar is for YOU.
Join Audrina Lange, Assistant to the Director of AMS Fruit and Vegetable Market News, to learn about the wealth of timely, valuable data available from the free, Web-based National Fruit and Vegetable Retail Report, including:
· Fresh produce prices at the retail level on a national and regional basis,
· Graphs and overviews of price and market activity data, and
· Analyses of fresh produce inclusion in weekly retail advertised specials at thousands of stores across the country.
We’ll also take you through the Market News Portal to show you how you can use and benefit from the wide array of retail data, customized reports and other market news that is free and at your fingertips 24/7!
The webinar is free, but you must register to participate. Space is limited. Register today at http://bit.ly/y6w4jS
For additional information about Market News visit www.marketnews.usda.gov/portal/fv or contact Audrina Lange via phone at (202) 720-3344, or e-mail: audrina.lange@ams.usda.gov
If you have any questions about USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, please contact Christopher Purdy at (202) 720-3209 or christopher.purdy@ams.usda.gov.
Source: USDA Agricultural Marketing Service
