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Recap of the Tours Value Add Food Processing Conversation IMCP 11/18/2014 Outline List of the tours Companies visited during the tours What we heard? 2 Tours April 17th and 18th 2014 Dickey Farms Gorge Delights

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Recap of the Tours

Value‐Add Food Processing Conversation IMCP 11/18/2014

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Outline

  • List of the tours
  • Companies visited during the tours
  • What we heard?

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Tours

  • April 17th and 18th 2014

– Dickey Farms – Gorge Delights – Gunkel’s Orchards – Oregon Brineworks – Blue Bus

  • Sept 24th and 25th 2014

– Muirhead Canning – Oregon Brineworks – Oregon Cherry Growers – Ryan's Juice

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Food Industry in Gorge

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Pictures from the Tours

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Pictures from the Tours

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What we heard?

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Needs/Challenges of businesses:

  • Technical Support: machinery, new technologies, continuous

improvements, food processing and others.

  • Expensive Machinery: Sourcing, funding, operating expensive machinery

like “optical sorting” and “brine recovery technology” and others.

  • Sourcing of Raw Materials: Seasonal supply of raw materials. Storage

needs for fresh produce.

  • Sourcing niche Raw Materials: such as pectin, arrowroot, ginger, caraway

seed, organic fruits and vegetables, non‐GMO materials and others.

  • Marketing: How to approach markets? Marketing strategies?
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What we heard?

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Needs/Challenges of businesses, continued:

  • Distribution: Challenges in distributing local products.
  • Food Safety: GAPs, GMPs, HACCP and other certifications, need to

better understand regulations, challenges in meeting standards and

  • thers.
  • Contracts: Forward contracts, contracts between packers/product

makers and others.

  • Inventory Management: Quickbooks training and others.
  • By‐products Utilization: Pomace and others.
  • Aging Equipment: How to handle old equipment?
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Thank You

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