Comparing Apples to Apples: An Iowa Perspective on Apples and Local Food Systems

October 1999

Rich Pirog and John Tyndall, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

This paper looks at Iowa's once thriving apple industry from a food system perspective.

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