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Building Successful Food Hubs: A Business Planning Guide for Aggregating and Processing Local Food in Illinois
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Building Successful Food Hubs is a resource for communities, businesses, not-forprofits,
and others interested in establishing food hubs.
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The Role of Food Hubs in Local Food Marketing
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An analysis of the roles that food hubs play in building local/regional food systems across the United States.
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Findings of the 2017 National Food Hub Survey - Executive Summary
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Infographic-style executive summary of findings of the third biennial National Food Hub Survey conducted by Michigan State University's Center for Regional ...
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Local Food System Assessment for Northern Virginia
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The study assesses the feasibility of building a successful fruit and vegetable aggregation and distribution system in the Northern Virginia agricultural ...
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Grand Traverse Regional Market Feasibility Study
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In December 2011, the Traverse Bay Economic Development Corporation, working in partnership with the Grand Traverse Regional Market Initiative, retained Market ...
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Central Indiana Food Hub Feasibility Study
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A food hub in Central Indiana has been deemed feasible by this study. The study emphasized seeking answers to the question: ‘Do we have enough
farmers ...
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Food Hubs and Farm to School
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Food hubs hold great promise to help farm to school programs and food service professionals get good, healthy, local, whole foods to our nation's students.
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Clearing the Roadblocks: Market Based Strategies for Getting Good Food to All Communities
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Three cutting edge models for food access explained and demonstrated.
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Central Oregon Food Hub Feasibility Study
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The purpose of this study was to assess the capacity of the region to support a local food hub – defined as a centrally located facility with a business ...
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Understanding Local Food Transportation Costs
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The Land Stewardship Project has adapted a series of worksheets by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry to help farmers understand the ...
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Pork: Marketing Alternatives
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This publication suggests that sustainable hog producers consider alternative marketing approaches for their pork. Direct marketing and niche markets are among ...
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The Whole(sale) Deal
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Eugene, Oregon-based Organically Grown Company is the largest wholesaler of organic produce in the Pacific Northwest. For more than two decades, they've ...
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Northwest Michigan's Farm Factor: Economic Impacts, Challenges, and Opportunities
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This report documents the economic impact of agriculture in a six-county region of Michigan’s northwest Lower Peninsula, explores opportunities for improving ...
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Internet Buying Clubs Combine Emerging Technologies and Community Values
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Two entrepreneurs committed to the local food movement are about to make their marketing models available to the public.
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Banding Together to Build an Alternative Meat Market
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This article profiles Diana & Gary Endicott and Rainbow Farms. Summary of Operation:
- 75 head in cow/calf operation
- Tomatoes, grain and hay on 400-acre ...
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A Survey of Pork Niche Marketers in the Midwest
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This study identifies the business and technical assistance needs of producers and producer groups in Iowa and five surrounding states who are working in pork ...
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Making Value Chains Work: Best Practices for Success - Workshop Proceedings
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This document provides a synthesis of the proceedings of the April 2008 Making Value Chains Work: Best Practices for Success Workshop.
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See the Local Difference: Regional Food Systems Become Essential Ingredient for Michigan's Future
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Provides a tour of the emerging good food system in Michigan: How it is taking shape, what it contributes, and how local and state leaders can pitch in to both ...
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A New Kind of Middleman
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A new kind of middleman is helping small farmers get their produce into
larger stores—without sacrificing quality or income.
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Bringing Local Food to Local Institutions: A Resource Guide for Farm-to-School and Farm-to-Institution Programs
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This publication provides farmers, school administrators, and institutional food-service planners with contact information and descriptions of existing ...
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Food, Fuel, and Freeways: An Iowa perspective on how far food travels, fuel usage, and greenhouse gas emissions
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This paper discusses transportation from farm to point of sale within local, regional, and conventional food systems. Using fresh produce and other foods as ...
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Institutional buying models and local food markets: The Iowa experience
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This paper provides a brief overview of several models of institutional food buying projects in Iowa and critical factors that make these systems work - both ...
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Marketing Specialty Hogs: A Comparative Analysis of Two Firms from Iowa
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We study business organization and coordination of specialty-market hog production using a comparative analysis of two Iowa pork niche-marketing firms. We ...
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Market Makers
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Four years ago, a group of farmers in northern Minnesota were having trouble accessing markets for their organic grain crops. So they bought a processing and ...
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Characterizing Optimal Business Conditions for Commerce Between Farmers and SYSCO - Phase 2
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A study of the business dynamics between SYSCO, a national distributor of products to the food service industry, and three Iowa-based, small-to-midsize food ...
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Ins-TRUCK-tion Manual: Lease, Buy, or Other?
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A case study and a calculator tool help food hubs navigate the buy/lease trucking decision.
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Before You Leap: Hidden Implications of Food Hub Business Growth
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Three "roads not yet taken" a hub with may encounter. Each road has the possibility of great success, but has potholes to avoid.
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Scaling-up Connections between Regional Ohio Specialty Crop Producers and Local Markets: Distribution as the Missing Link
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Many local food systems advocates focus on increasing the number of farmers
selling their products directly to consumers, but this type of direct
marketing ...
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Innovations in Value Chain Infrastructure - Red Tomato
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Can Red Tomato build a regional supply chain that maintains the highest quality, and satisfies both farmers and consumers alike?
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Regional Food Hubs: Linking producers to new markets
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Regional Food Hubs: Definition & Core Components; Two Food Hub Examples (Urban and Rural); Current Research and Lessons Learned; Maps of Existing and Potential ...