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Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud!
Market Assessment & Analysis
SWOT ANALYSIS
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
SWOT ANALYSIS
•It’s important that when you do a SWOT analysis, that you are honest in how you assess your business. Having friends, family, peers, or anyone else who knows your business well can be very valuable.
•You can use SWOT to assess your business, your marketplace, your workforce, or any other aspect of your business.
•What is a strength in one community may not be in another. This is snapshot of market strengths across the country.
•If there is a strength from your community we've missed, please share when we get to the feedback section.
StrengthsStrengths
StrengthsStrengths
History and Tradition
Growing Public Awareness
Unmatched Growth
Quality
Creativity
Cool Factor
•History and Tradition
• holidays
• celebrations
• ethnic diets
StrengthsStrengths
StrengthsStrengths
•Growing Public Awareness
• 75% of specialty food retailers say “local” is the most influential food claim.
• www.bealocalist.org
StrengthsStrengths
• Unmatched Growth
• Buying locally has moved from a trend or a fad, into a full-blown movement.
StrengthsStrengths
•Quality
• Food picked at the peak of ripeness is better. It tastes better and it’s more nutritionally dense.
StrengthsStrengths
•Creativity
• Creative people are drawn to the local food movement. Find ways to put them to work for you.
StrengthsStrengths
•Cool Factor
•Weaknesses can also represent opportunity, especially if you're able to overcome it in a creative or collaborative way.
•If there is a weakness from your community that you've been able to overcome, please share when we get to the feedback section.
WeaknessesWeaknesses
WeaknessesWeaknesses
Price is still King
Seasonality
Traditional wholesale accounts are built for the big guys
Lack of Collaboration
Technology barriers
Some less polished business skills
WeaknessesWeaknesses
•Price is still King
• Some consumers will always value the lowest price over anything else. Small scale production tends to be more expensive.
WeaknessesWeaknesses
•Seasonality
• People are not in tune with seasonality the way your farm is! They want what they want, when they want it.
WeaknessesWeaknesses
•Traditional wholesale accounts are built for the big guys
• Retailers and restaurants prefer being able to buy everything they need on the back of one truck.
WeaknessesWeaknesses
•Lack of Collaboration
• Some farmers and food producers see the other farmers in their community as the competition, rather than as a partner. A rising tide raises all boats.
WeaknessesWeaknesses
•Technology barriers
• Shoppers are buying online more than ever. And local food shoppers are learning about local products and farms online as well.
WeaknessesWeaknesses
•Smaller infrastructures and support networks.
•Threats are usually things you can't control. That doesn't mean you shouldn't recognize them. You need to know thereout there, and be prepared in case they affect you.
ThreatsThreats
Localwashing
Catastrophic weather events
Lack of succession Planning
Changing Regulations
Environmental Degradation
ThreatsThreats
•Localwashing
• Big companies have already started advertising campaigns to leverage the idea of buying locally.
ThreatsThreats
•Catastrophic weather events
• Floods
• Droughts
• Hurricanes
• Tornadoes
ThreatsThreats
•Lack of succession planning
• Farms are being lost to changing generations.
ThreatsThreats
•Changing Regulations
While some states are changing regulations to make it easier to produce food, some agencies are doing the opposite.
ThreatsThreats
•Environmental Degradation
Keep in touch with what environmental concerns are being raised in your community.
Some of you out there will be affected by these issues.
ThreatsThreats
•The local food system right now is a world of opportunity. This list is in no way all encompassing.
•Please share places you've seen opportunity!
OpportunitiesOpportunities
Facilitated Market Places
Places People Gather
Emerging Demographics
Value Added Products
Social Media
Allergen Communities
SNAP
OpportunitiesOpportunities
•Facilitated Market Places
Examples in New York State
• www.wholeshare.com
• www.farmiemarket.com
• www.field-goods.com
• www.foodshedbuyingclub.com
• www.thegoodfoodcollective.com
OpportunitiesOpportunities
•Places People Gather
• large workplaces
• community centers
• hospitals
• schools & universities
OpportunitiesOpportunities
•Emerging Demographics
• new parents
• Latino
• Southeast Asian
• African
OpportunitiesOpportunities
•Value Added Products
• your own line
• selling ingredients to other producers
• co-branded
OpportunitiesOpportunities
•Social Media
OpportunitiesOpportunities
•Allergen Communities
• Gluten Free
• Soy-Free
OpportunitiesOpportunities
•Changing Regulations
• Check with your state Agriculture & Markets office to find out about cottage food laws.
OpportunitiesOpportunities
•SNAP
• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
OpportunitiesOpportunities
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•www.iamsmallpotatoes.com
•facebook.com/SmallPotatoes42
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www.nyfvi.orgfacebook.com/NewYorkFarmViabilityInstitute