2020 Midwest Foodservice Expo

Annake Ramsey
Produce Program Manager
CROPP Cooperative/Organic Valley


Annake has served as CROPP Cooperative’s Produce Program Manager for 14 years where she manages the produce farmer side of the business including procurement and production management, raw product quality, and new product development. Annake developed CROPP’s farmer food safety training program, which helps farmers create farm food safety plans. She serves as a Wisconsin representative to the North Central Regional Center for Food Safety Training at Iowa State and on the Wisconsin Produce Safety Advisory Council. She is a Produce Safety Alliance trainer, providing required training on the FDA’s Produce Safety Rule to farmers in Wisconsin. Annake began her relationship with Organic Valley as a produce farmer-member. In the early 2000s, she grew mixed vegetables for wholesale production for Organic Valley, CSA and farmers markets. Organic Valley is America’s largest cooperative of organic farmers and one of the nation’s leading organic brands. Organized in 1988, it represents more than 2,000 farmers in 35 U.S. states, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom and achieved $1.1 billion in sales. Focused on its founding mission of saving family farms through organic farming, Organic Valley produces a wide range of organic dairy, egg, meat and produce products.

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