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The University of Kentucky's New Crop Opportunities Center provides production and marketing information on new crops and value-added versions of current crops.

New Marketing Tool!
Kentucky MarketMaker is an exciting new Web-based marketing aid that provides a link between agricultural producers and potential buyers of food products. The Kentucky MarketMaker profile explains this resource and tells you how to register.

More features
The 2008 Kentucky Produce Planting & Marketing Intentions Survey and Outlook and the 2006 Kentucky Restaurant Produce Buyer Survey are available online. To access a series of marketing profiles, go to our Marketing page at http://www.uky.edu/Ag/NewCrops/marketing.html. The Regional Winegrape Marketing and Price Outlook for 2006, Wine Grape Price Comparisons for 2003 and 2006, a paper on organic markets, Supply Chain Management and the Changing Structure of U.S. Organic Produce Markets, and a resource for herb growers, Selected Internet Resources for Herb Marketing (updated September 2005), are also available.

Submit Your Ideas
Are you aware of "new" horticultural and/or specialty grains crops for which there is a market interest, or for which you believe a market could be developed? Click here to submit your ideas.

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