Completed Competitive Grant

Market analysis of alternative crop production in Iowa

Project ID: 2004-M9

Abstract

A spreadsheet was created to provide producers, distributors, and marketers with more information about county-level supplies of local food products.

Key Question: How much of my product is consumed by counties in Iowa? What produce items are least supplied by Iowa farmers to meet demand?

Findings: This kind of information may be found by using a simplified version of the spreadsheet at http:// www.leopold.iastate.edu/research/marketing.htm. We will be working with the Leopold Center to train food system educators who will use a more comprehensive version of the spreadsheet.

Lead investigator: Steve Andrie, ISU Center for Transportation Research and Education, et al

Year of grant completion: 2005

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

Topics: Community-based food systems, Models and assessment tools

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