FOREST PARK, Ga. (AP) -- Will Harris stood in the State Farmer's Market pushing samples of his hot cooked beef on people passing by his booth -- what he calls a difficult task."I'm new to this. I am a cow man, not a marketer," said Harris, fifth generation owner of White Oaks Pastures in Bluffton, Ga. "But now I find myself marketing in meat science."
Harris and some 60 other exhibitors touted the best of what they grow and sell at the "Georgia Grown Food Show" on Monday. The Georgia Department of Agriculture hosted the trade show in effort to increasfe the sale of Georgia products to grocery stores and restaurants in the state.
"Our issue here is that so many people do not have any opportunity to market to the entire state, and many people were asking about how they could," said Terry Coleman, deputy commissioner of agriculture.
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