This repository contains all of the data required to replicate tables and figures in Bauman et al. (2024) as well as the supplemental materials. All relevant data is available here so results are reproducible.
U.S. local and regional food systems (LRFS) garner significant support from the federal government. Congress has directed U.S. Department of Agriculture to collect data on farmers and ranchers that use these markets, but challenges remain. We provide information about the three national surveys that provide farm-level data on sales through LRFS, including how questions have changed over time. We highlight benefits and challenges of using each survey from scale/scope and producer implication perspectives and offer recommendations to improve the existing survey instruments to support enhanced economic understanding of the implications of local and regional food markets.
All data and code used in the paper can be found in FoodSystemsModeling Git Hub site.
Last update date: June 5, 2024
Bauman, Allison, Becca B.R. Jablonski, D. Adeline Yeh, Lauren Chenarides and Dawn Thilmany McFadden. 2024. Federal Economic Data on Local and Regional Food Producers. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
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Funding for this research was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, and the Colorado Ag Experiment Station. The authors have no financial interest or benefit from the direct application of this research. The funders played no role in the decision to submit the paper for presentation. The findings and conclusions in this presentation are those of the authors and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy.
For further inquiries, please contact: Allison Bauman allie.bauman@colostate.edu