Northeast Iowa Local Food Survey Summary Report

July 2007

Craig Chase, ISU Extension

This is a preliminary report of findings from a survey of 140 institutional buyers in a five-county region in northeast Iowa for the Northeast Iowa Food and Farm Coalition. The survey found that 57 percent of respondents currently use locally grown food. This was a Leopold Center special project, RWG2007-01, related to the Regional Food Systems Working Group.

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