Determining the Methods for Measuring the Economic and Fiscal Impacts Association with Organic Crop Conversion in Iowa

March 2007

David Swenson, Liesl Eathington and Craig Chase, Iowa State University

This is a final report for a Leopold Center Marketing Initiative grant project (M2006-12). It shows that the potential regional economic impact of organic crop production exceeds that of conventional crop production.

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