Marketing Specialists in the Raleigh office provide marketing assistance to individual growers, packer/shippers, processors, commodity associations, and agribusinesses. Marketing services are available for crops ranging from corn to strawberries. Activities include developing marketing strategies, identifying potential buyers, organizing promotions with retailers, wholesalers, restaurants, and farmers markets, farm tours for produce buyers, planning marketing programs for commodity associations, training farmers in price risk management, and assistance to grain dealers, cotton gins and the tobacco industry.
E-Mail the designated marketing specialists for assistance with these commodities.
Kevin Hardison, Local Foods, Direct Markets and Produce |
Heather Barnes, Sweetpotatoes, Organics, Farm to School |
Christina Wrenn, Honey, Pine Needles, Sod, and Eastern North Carolina Christmas Trees, Strawberries |
Tommy Fleetwood, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Greens |
Tony Haywood, Christmas Trees, Blackberies, Green Industry |
Michele Roberts, Apples, Tomatoes |
Nick Lassiter , Grains, Oil Seed, Cotton, Peanuts |
Tim Parrish, Manager, Domestic Marketing |
Randy Maness, Retail Specialist |
Bruce Whitehead, Foodservice Specialist |