Local Food Production and Farm to School Expenditures

Jeffrey K. O'Hara and Matthew Benson

No 252669, 2017 Annual Meeting, February 4-7, 2017, Mobile, Alabama from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: While use of local foods in U.S. school meal programs has increased dramatically since the 1990s, supply constraints are often cited as an impediment. We use responses from the nationally administered 2015 Farm to School Census to estimate a double hurdle model exploring how local food purchases by schools are influenced by local agricultural conditions. We find that direct to consumer agricultural production and milk production had a positive impact on local non-milk and local milk purchases, respectively. We find this result is robust to endogeneity and sample selection tests.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31
Date: 2017-01
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.252669

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