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The authors recommend the following to help farmers
reach compliance with FSMA and support those not covered
by FSMA:
* One of the biggest resources and sources of produce
safety updates mentioned was extension agents and
employees of state departments of agriculture or health.
CAP recipients might consider prioritizing their federal
CAP funds to pay for staff.
* CAP recipients should take advantage of the three ways
to hold the PSA grower training. Using multiple options
could be beneficial as states continue to offer the course
even as most growers covered by FSMA have taken it.
Offering multistate, remote trainings might allow states
to continue to offer PSA trainings in an economical
way to the few covered growers who have not already
completed the course. In addition, states could consider
using their CAP funds to subsidize the cost of the online
PSA Grower Training. This independent study version of
PSA Grower Training might be an effective program for
some growers, especially if states could cover some costs,
similar to the way most states subsidize the in-person
and remote versions of the course. Going forward,
extension staff may want to consider offering GAP
training to growers on small farms who have not been
covered by FSMA, instead of the certificate-earning PSA
Grower Training.
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* Extension educators and state departments of
agriculture or health should invest in ways to help
overcome the main barriers that growers identified:
time, money, and labor constraints. They might share
grant opportunities (such as the 2022 Food Safety
Certification for Specialty Crops Program or Natural
Resources Conservation Service funding) and share
stories of growers who have made cost-effective or timesaving
changes.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was supported by the Food Safety Outreach
Program (grant 2018-70020-28877) from the USDA
National Institute of Food and Agriculture. We acknowledge
all parties who recruited growers for this study. Specifically,
we thank Kansas State University, Purdue University,
Michigan State University, Minnesota Department of
Agriculture, University of Missouri Columbia, Purdue
University, South Dakota State University, and Wisconsin
Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection.
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