….we recently hosted a roundtable on the problems smaller producers face in marketing their grass fed beef.  (see below, “Roundtable: Can I make money selling grass fed beef”) We were a bit surprised that farmers markets didn’t come up.  Several cattlemen we know have tried them and generally found them useful in building a customer base.  Eventually, they tired of the commitment, of being tied-down every weekend, and settled for marketing from their farm. A better solution might be so-called “Food Hubs”, which are really a higher octane version of farmers markets.  They have legal structure, and financial underpinning, but again require a real commitment from the participants.  By coincidence the USDA…