Research Results

Business Management, Distribution and Marketing

These projects have been supported by the Leopold Center. Click on a project name to read a printable summary of the key findings and other details. Full final reports are available from the Leopold Center by request.

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Project Name [PDF] Project ID
NEW Researching and evaluating an effective web-based local food sales template One-page brief Full summary M2007-31
NEW Planning and facility for value-added farm business incubation and educational use One-page brief Full summary M2006-25
NEW Plan demonstration farm to include farm business incubators and educational use One-page brief Full summary M2006-24
Cash flow and product profitability analysis and improvement for small meat processors   M2007-16
Development of a niche agriculture small business money map and process to disseminate information   M2007-06
Strengthening the local and regional food system in the Iowa Valley
   M2007-17

Growing Farm to ISU: The first five months

   MSP2007-01
Case studies and benchmark transaction costs for select food products   M02-2006
Assessing needs and fostering agricultural entrepreneurship among immigrants in several Iowa communities   M2006-07
Bridging the gap: What does it take to bring small- and medium-sized producers and retail and foodservice distributors together?   M2006-05
Market Maker for Iowa   M29-2005
Growing your small market farm business planning program   M2005-19
Small/midsize Iowa farmer marketing, entrepreneurship, business planning training   M06-2005
Sustainable agriculture, marketing, entrepreneurship, and business planning skills   M03-2005
Southwest Iowa Entrepreneurial Center: An achievable product-to-market business model for niche ag producers   M13-2005
Pilot project to identify and measure the relevant costs of production for sustainable agriculture products   M2004-05
Web-based interactive decision model for determining economic feasibility of growing grapes and establishing a winery   M16-2004
Business organization and coordination in niche hog marketing   M2004-22
Supply chain options for biobased businesses   2004-M13
Sustainable and Entrepreneurial Agriculture Program at Marshalltown Community College   MSP07-2004
Cooperation: a survival strategy for small and medium-sized farms   P2003-16
Forming agricultural bargaining units for a sustainable and equitable agriculture   P10-2003
Alternative swine cost of production project   PNMWG5-2002
Sustaining agricultural producers through direct marketing of processed foods   2002-16
Our rural supermarket: Locally grown foods project   2002-LF
An internship program to help institutional food buyers develop links to local farms in northeast Iowa   2001-13
Institutional and commercial food service buyers' perceptions of benefits and obstacles to purchase locally grown and processed foods   2001-38
Sustainability and community food systems in four Iowa counties   2000-69
Making the connection—linking farms to HRIs   2000-67
Alternative and horticulture crop education and marketing pilot project   1999-56
Rural regeneration through direct marketing of Audubon County meats   1998-12

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