A visual guide to USDA Local Food Survey results
The dashboard below presents all farms that defined themselves as participating in “Direct to Consumer Marketing.” It shows the number of farmers, their sales, and the representative percent of the total of those values. The data is broken down by region as well as marketing channel. If you click here to view an interactive map of the dashboard, you can move your mouse around the dashboard to quickly see corresponding detail and summary information.
The South East region had the highest number of respondents using FM as a direct marketing channel (9,966), and the North East region had the highest farmers market sales ($208m).
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