Produce Safety Alliance Grower Training at
2025 Ag Trades Show

Register ASAP or you will likely need to bring your own lunch
Earn 3 pesticide credits and a certificate of completion

Visit the course website to register

The University of Maine Cooperative Extension in partnership with the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) will offer a Produce Safety Alliance Grower Training on Thursday, January 16, 2024, from 8:30am to 5:30pm.

This course, open to all Maine fruit and vegetable growers, will provide a foundation of produce farm food safety best practices, introduction to the FSMA Produce Safety Rule regulation, and details on how to develop a farm food safety plan required for Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) audits. This course is one way farms subject to the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule can meet the requirement for at least one person on the farm to have produce food safety training.

The class is being offered at the Maine Agricultural Trades Show in Augusta for $20, which includes breakfast, or $45 which includes breakfast and a box lunch. Register ASAP if you want a box lunch before that option expires.

Participants must be 14 years and older to receive the certificate of completion.

Contacts and more info

Please share this continuing education opportunity with Maine fruit and vegetable farms and growers. 

• For registration or accommodation, contact Theresa Tilton at tilton@maine.edu or 207-942-7396.
• For more information about the training, contact Robson Machado at machado@maine.edu or 207-581-3144.
• Visit the course website for more info and to register