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Counting Values: Food Hub Financial Benchmarking Study

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Farming, Food Hubs, Local and Regional Food Systems, Metrics, Supply Chains

Authors: Farm Credit East, Wallace Center at Winrock International, Morse Marketing Connections and Farm Credit Council,

Are food hubs able to support themselves with their operations? What management decisions make the most financial difference? This 2015 report, coordinated by the NGFN Food Hub Collaboration presents a set of financial and operational performance benchmarks to measure and analyze food hubs. By attempting to establish a basis for comparing results across food hubs, a business sector that is both new and multipurpose, this study sheds light on food hubs as business enterprises. Determining such metrics is an important step in the local and regional food sector’s evolution.

Trend in U.S. Local and Regional Food Systems: Report to Congress

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Conservation, Farm to Institution, Farming, Food Hubs, Food Safety, Local and Regional Food Systems, Policy & Advocacy, Supply Chains

Authors: Sarah A. Low, Aaron Adalja, Elizabeth Beaulieu, Nigel Key, Steve Martinez, Alex Melton, Agnes Perez, Katherine Ralston, Hayden Stewart, Shellye Suttles, and Stephen Vogel, of USDA Economic Research Service; Becca B.R. Jablonski, of Colorado State Univ

This U.S. Department of Agriculture Report provides an overview of local and regional food systems across several dimensions.