Free Online Market Access Tool

Mar 31, 2017

Free online market access tool

Are you a processor or producer entering a new market? Not sure if you can meet your customer or regulatory requirements? There is a new resource that can help get you on your way.

Meeting Customer Requirements is a free, online resource developed by Alberta Agriculture and Forestry to guide producers and processors through the necessary steps to consistently meet market, standards and regulatory requirements.

This tool helps producers and food processors to evaluate their current ability to meet new requirements; create an action plan to address gaps; maintain their system through an internal audit; and prove they are meeting requirements through an external audit.

Meeting Customer Requirements started as a tool to help producers understand the terms of their contracts, and has expanded to prepare processors to meet the requirements of regulations, contracts, and customer requirements.

Source : Agriculture and Forestry

Video: Evolution of Beef Cattle Farming

The Clear Conversations podcast took to the road for a special episode recorded in Nashville during CattleCon, bringing listeners straight into the heart of the cattle industry. Host Tracy Sellers welcomed rancher Steve Wooten of Beatty Canyon Ranch in Colorado for a wide-ranging discussion that blended family history and sustainability, particularly as it relates to the future of beef production.

Sustainability emerged as a central theme of the conversation, a word that Wooten acknowledges can mean very different things depending on who you ask. For him, sustainability starts with the soil. Healthy soil produces healthy grass, which supports efficient cattle capable of producing year after year with minimal external inputs. It’s an approach that equally considers vegetation, animal efficiency, and long-term profitability.

That philosophy aligned naturally with Wooten’s involvement in the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, where he served as a representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association. The roundtable brings together the entire beef supply chain—from producers to retailers—along with universities, NGOs, and allied industries. Its goal is not regulation, Wooten emphasized, but collaboration, shared learning, and continuous improvement.