Center for Crop Diversification

Do You Need PBPT for the Upcoming Season? Produce Best Practices Training for safe food handling

The Produce Best Practices Training (PBPT) is a Kentucky-specific training and is currently voluntary. Although, some markets and wholesale buyers may require PBPT as an added layer of confidence to know the growers they work with have been trained in safe food handling procedures.

Agritourism Trends to Pay Attention To in 2025 Lessons from the International Agritourism Conference

Last month, I attended the NAFDMA conference, which is the international agritourism association. I took note throughout the conference on themes that emerged over and over to try to get a better understanding of what the major trends in agritourism are today. Here's a list of 5 things that I learned, in no order of importance.

UK Plant Pathology Extension Seeks Information on Watermelon Anthracnose