The project proposes a planning and implementation process for the development of a permanent certified organic dry bean processing facility located in olathe colorado

The facility will provide a certified organic process for the cleaning of dry beans received directly from field harvesting and enable versatile packaging of dry beans. The planning process will consist of completing technical and economic feasibility analyses and marketing and business plans for such a facility. The first goal is to optimize the technical aspects of processing to ensure efficiency and increase capacity in a certified organic dry bean cleaning and packaging facility. This will provide a finished product packaged in various weights which accommodate market needs and consumer demand. The project will develop a marketing and business plan to optimize economic benefits and purchase of equipment to implement a facility. Project is expected to improve access for producers in the western slope to sell products into regional and national organic dry bean markets provide incentives to expand the volume and varieties of organic dry beans grown in these regions and increase regional organic dry bean sourcing accessibility for buyers and consumers.