Measuring the Economic Impacts of Increased Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Production in Iowa Considering Metropolitan Demand

April 2011

Dave Swenson, ISU Department of Economics

This study looks at the number of jobs that would be created and acres needed for Iowa farmers to provide more fresh fruit for Iowa's nine metropolitan areas (populations over 50,000).

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