Completed Competitive Grant

Alternative and horticulture crop education and marketing pilot project

Project ID: 1999-56

Abstract

How do farmers embark on a new type of production system, such as for vegetable and horticultural crops? This project helped a group of southern Iowa farmers organize infrastructure and find markets for these crops outside the usual farmers markets.

Lead investigator: Rodney R. Fleharty, Southern Iowa Ag Diversity Corporation, et al

Year of grant completion: 2002

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Business management, distribution and marketing, Community-based food systems, Supply networks

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