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Sample Cut Sheets: Pork

This example cut sheet for pork provides suggestions that may be used as a basis for bulk or retail pork sales.

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Sample Cut Sheets: Beef

This example cut sheet for beef provides suggestions that may be used as a basis for bulk or retail beef sales.

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How to Identify Your Ideal Customers

Identifying your customer is a critical step in developing a successful marketing strategy.  This document will help guide you through the basics of this process.

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Creating Consumer-Friendly Bulk Meat

Most consumers are not familiar with buying locally-raised meat by the quarter, half, or whole. To increase the opportunity to gain first time customers and retain them as repeat customers, it is important to understand the consumer’s needs, preferences, and the decisions that drive their purchases.

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Bulk Meat Purchase Agreement Template (2020)

Committing to selling meat in bulk (whole, halves, quarters, or bulk bundles) involves a large financial investment. The bulk purchasing agreement template is intended to reduce risk by outlining specific terms of bulk purchasing between farmers and consumers.

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NC Catch Local Seafood Market Lists (2017)

NC Catch and NC Growing Together created these brochures that include retail locations across the state for sourcing NC Seafood.

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Strategies to Increase Sales of Local Meat at Farmstands and Small Retailers (2018)

This guide outlines a few key strategies to increase the sales of local, pasture-raised meat at independent, small-scale grocery retailers, and retail farm stands.

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Hubs & Kitchens: Food Hubs, Commercial Community Kitchens, and Copackers in NC (2017)

Produced by the NCGT and UFOODS.  Food hubs, commercial community kitchens, and copackers are intermediaries vital to the successful operation of supply chains connecting food that is grown in one area to consumers in that same area. This directory is designed to inform farmers and other food businesses of the location and services offered by these intermediaries.

The directory also provides grocery and food service buyers – including restaurants and institutional food service at universities and hospitals – with information on where they can find North Carolina food and farm products packed for retail and wholesale markets.

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Distributors of NC Wild-Caught Seafood (2016)

Compiled by NC Catch and NC Growing Together, this sheet provides information on wholesale/retail companies that distribute locally caught North Carolina seafood throughout the state.

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Breaking Down the Cost of Grassfed Beef (2016)

This user-friendly infographic helps explain the total and per-pound cost of producing grassfed beef, including feed, labor, fixed costs, transportation, processing, and marketing/sales.

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