Member Services

AgriMissouri™ members receive a variety of membership benefits, including:

Participation in AgriMissouri™ Markets.

Use of AgriMissouri™ logo.

Individual company profile in Buyer’s Guide.

Trade show support and opportunities.

Ability to purchase AgriMissouri™ point of purchase materials.

Participation in Bar Code Coop.

Dual membership with Missouri Farmers’ Market Association.

To learn more about AgriMissouri™ membership, download our Membership brochure and the 2008 Membership Application.

AgriMissouri™ Logo

All AgriMissouri™ members receive the ability to use the AgriMissouri™ logo on their packaging, marketing materials, Web site and other published materials. AgriMissouri™ asks that you follow the standards set up for using the logo. These standards can be found in the AgriMissouri™ Style Guide. After a member reviews the Style Guide and determines the AgriMissouri™ logo format needed, e-mail Sarah Gehring and request that version of the logo.

Consumer Outreach

AgriMissouri™ staff is always working to build the AgriMissouri brand and showcase members to the public. The AgriMissouri Buyer’s Guide online is a large part of the consumer outreach. The Buyer’s Guide search page averages over 750 hits per month. The hits to the Buyer’s Guide are both consumers and retailers looking for products for their stores.

Promotion across the state is again the plan for 2008. The year will kick-off with AgriMissouri products being featured on the main stage at the St. Louis Food & Wine Experience and the Missouri Governor’s Conference on Agriculture.

Winter offers members the opportunity to network and attend many workshops and conferences. The Missouri Farmers’ Market Association, Missouri Department of Agriculture and AgriMissouri will host Market to Market Workshops across the state for farmers’ markets. Additional conferences are the Midwest Grape and Wine Conference, Great Plains Vegetable Conference, Missouri Small Fruit and Vegetable Growers Conference, Missouri Farmers’ Market Association Annual Meeting and Missouri Organic Association Annual Meeting.

Spring and summer will bring additional promotional opportunities. The AgriMissouri Market will again be featured at the Missouri State Fair. This event provides members the opportunity to sample and sell their products throughout the fair. The Missouri Grocers Association Convention and Trade Show continues to be popular among members. This show offers the opportunity to reach Missouri’s independent grocers all in one location.

Right now the details are still being worked out on several activities including the Missouri School of Journalism’s Celebration and the Tour of Missouri. Keep watching the web site for details on these activities.

Bar Code Assistance Program

The Missouri Department of Agriculture is happy to announce that we are now providing assistance in obtaining bar code for AgriMissouri™ members. Providing AgriMissouri™ members and Missouri entrepreneurs the opportunity to obtain a bar code will open up more doors for Missouri-made products.

If you are interested in learning more about the AgriMissouri™ Bar Code Assistance program, please contact Sarah Gehring at 573-522-9213 or Sarah.Gehring@mda.mo.gov.

Missouri Association of Meat Processors Convention & Trade Show
Some may be thinking why in the world would I want to attend a meat processors trade show? Here’s why, many of the meat processors have retail areas where they sell their summer sausages, bacons and other meats as well as complimentary specialty products. There are lots of products that compliment meat products, like mustards, barbecue sauce and cheese, just to name a few. The Missouri Meat Processors members are small businesses and want to support other small businesses so it is a great opportunity to meet the members and market your products to them for their retail areas.

The trade show at the Missouri Association of Meat Processors Convention takes place Friday, February 29 from 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. and Saturday, March 1 from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Select in Columbia, Missouri. AgriMissouri™ is offering two options for participating in this show. Members can either exhibit in their own booth at a reduced rate or can send product to be sampled an displayed in the AgriMissouri booth.

Members interested in participating should contact Sarah as soon as possible at 573-522-9213 or Sarah.Gehring@mda.mo.gov.

St. Louis Food & Wine Experience

AgriMissouri™ has sponsored a chef on the main stage at the St. Louis Food & Wine Experience for the last three years. This chef demonstrated recipes using AgriMissouri products. In 2008, AgriMissouri sponsored the entire cooking stage so that all the chefs used AgriMissouri products in their recipes.

The chefs participating in this event included Father Dominic, local St. Louis favorite chefs and PBS and FoodNetwork chefs. The event took place January 26 & 27 at the Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis. Over 3,000 people attended this event. To see pictures from this event, visit the AgriMissouri Showcase.

Visit the Photo Gallery to view pictures from past events.