Specialty Crop

The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service’s Specialty Crops Program helps buyers and sellers of all sizes in the U.S. produce industry to efficiently market their perishable products. This national program partners with state agencies and other industry organizations for the benefit of growers, shippers, brokers, receivers, processors, retailers, restaurants, direct to consumer sales, and the foodservice industry (see the Wyoming Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grant Program listing in the Statewide section).

The USDA program offers a wide array of services that span from helping market the quality of products to ensuring that there is fair trade in the produce industry. The program also helps specialty crop growers and handlers to combine their resources to help their respective industries overcome marketing barriers.