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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
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  • Subject: [Market-farming] (fwd) [COMFOOD:] USDA Survey on Farmer's Markets needs your Farmers' Input!
  • Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 16:32:37 -0400

>From the Community Food Security List ...
Pat


On Mon, 15 May 2006 13:21:56 -0400, "Alan Hunt"
<ahunt AT nemw.org> wrote:

>I thought you might be interested to know that USDA is conducting a
>Farmers' Market Survey. The link to the result last survey USDA (2000)
>conducted on farmers markets is at the end of this email. This is the
>only, federal data source on farmers' market and has been absolutely
>invaluable to me and other policy people on helping to make the case for
>farmers' markets. Please share this with farmers you know who sell at
>markets and other who have contact with these farmers. Thanks!
>

>
>USDA Conducting Farmer's Market Survey: USDA's Agricultural Marketing
>Service will be conducting its second Farmers Market Survey. The survey
>is designed to collect data from farmers markets administrators about
>current management and market practices, and will be used by the USDA to
>develop a current profile of the industry that details product mix and
>market performance, motivators for farmers market patronage, current
>promotional and administrative practices, and challenges facing managers
>and administrators. The survey is available online at
>http://farmersmarketsurvey.com/, and the deadline for its completion is
>May 31, 2006.
>
>All farmers markets are encouraged to participate in this USDA study as
>the results will also be used to demonstrate this importance of farmers
>markets to farm based income. It is expected that the results of the
>MSB analysis will be complete and available to the public on their
>website by the end of the summer. (Thank Ferd Hoefner of the
>Sustainable Agriculture coalition for reporting on this.)
>
>
>
>The link to the 2000 USDA survey:
>http://www.ams.usda.gov/tmd/MSB/PDFpubList/FarmMark.pdf
>
>
>
>
>
>Alan Hunt
>
>Northeast-Midwest Institute
>
>218 D St. SE
>
>Washington, DC 20003
>
>(202) 464-4016
>
>ahunt AT nemw.org
>
>
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  • [Market-farming] (fwd) [COMFOOD:] USDA Survey on Farmer's Markets needs your Farmers' Input!, Pat Meadows, 05/15/2006

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