About this Event
As retailers struggle to keep up with tougher customer demands for sustainability and human rights accountability, they are turning to third party auditors to ensure their suppliers are engaging in ethical practices. Some of these practices have been long adopted by the industry because they make good business sense. Growers are not used to having to spell them out to their buyers. One practice like this is IPM.
Primus 3.2 Module 9 helps to give buyers an auditable framework to assess whether a farm has an IPM program in place. This webinar will give growers resources, tips and tricks to meet the requirements of Module 9 with a minimum of effort.
About the Host: Phil Tocco has served as Extension Educator with Michigan State University since 2004. He serves as an educator in on-farm produce safety for fruit and vegetable farmers statewide. He has provided leadership and coordination of statewide programming in on-farm food safety since 2009. He currently serves with several other educators, State Departments of Agriculture and the U.S. FDA to implement and train assessors on the On-Farm Readiness Review, a tool to help growers determine their level of readiness for FSMA inspection.
Phil has a Masters Degree in Plant Protection and Pest Management from the University of California-Davis and Bachelors Degree in Biology from Western Michigan University. He has training in field crop, vegetable and fruit production, with some experience in all three.
Event Venue
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