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What would happen if each person bought just $5 more per week of food directly from a local farmer?
Posted January 19th, 2012 by admin


This is a question the Ken Meter of the Crossroads Resource Center addresses in a report on Indiana.

The study combines economic data and close interviews with more than 100 Hoosier food practitioners to show how the state's food system has adapted to changing circumstances. Food business clusters, growing in Indiana since the mid-1970s, are now taking root in commodity producing regions. Young members of the Indiana Farm Bureau are positioning themselves for a future of farming that may be very different than the past, knowing that if each Hoosier spent less than $5 per week buying food directly from Indiana farms, this would generate $1.5 billion of new farm income for state farmers—a 20% increase in farm revenue.

Read the report, Hoosier Farmer? Emerging Food Systems in Indiana.

Shorter summaries of the report, and many other food system resources, can also be linked from http://www.crcworks.org