Robert Weybright is the Agricultural and Horticultural Program Leader at Cornell Cooperative Extension in Dutchess County.
Prior to joining Cornell, he was the Executive Director of Hudson Valley FOODWORKS, a non-profit shared use food production facility for small-scale specialty food entrepreneurs. Weybright has over 25 years of experience working in a variety of responsibilities associated with the service, food and food manufacturing industries.
Weybright's comments are from a panel discussion entitled "Selling Your Goods - More Than Talk, It's A Process!". The panel was from the 2007 Cornell Strategic Marketing Conference that was held on November 5 and 6 at the Henry A Wallace Visitor and Education Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.
Bob Weybright received his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and his MBA from California State University - Hayward.
Part of the value was I would bring to my customers myself, my interaction. And I think they got a lot for that. Does anyone remember the Alar scare. When the Alar scare came out, all of my schools and my hospitals had a letter from me by the end of that day that all the apples I sold them were A...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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