Benefits: How Can Sourcing Directly from Farmers Benefit Specialty Food Manufacturers?

Larry Lev, Gail Feenstra, Shermain Hardesty, Laurie Houston, Jan Joannides and Robert King

No 278664, USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture

Abstract: Sourcing directly from farmers can have both benefits and challenges for manufacturers. So what tips the scales? What are the advantages that outweigh the challenges, and how can you, as a farmer, use this to your advantage? Here we address six categories of benefits: communication, interdependence, marketing advantages, transparency, value alignment, and simple economics.

Keywords: Demand and Price Analysis; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4
Date: 2018-10
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.278664

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