Ryan Severance:
"With growing season just beginning, farmers in the Rocky Ford region are focused on gaining consumer confidence back after a deadly listeria outbreak in cantaloupe last year.
"I think there are people who will still be wary of our product and of the listeria outbreak last year, but we haven't had any problems with food safety in Rocky Ford in 120 years and we are all committed to high quality," Brian Knapp, who runs Knapp Farms in Rocky Ford, said..." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
While the contamination occurred many miles away in a packing plant near Granada, farmers in the Lower Arkansas Valley say it's best to be proactive and to assure the public that they are taking all the right steps in food handling safety.
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