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2. Rise of virtual farmers markets, the
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Borts-Kuperman, Leah (author)
- Format:
- Online Article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-01-31
- Published:
- United States: Modern Farmer Media
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12887
- Journal Title:
- Modern Farmer
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 10pgs, Why farmers are increasingly banding together to take their products online, targeting consumers directly without the fuss of a physical market
3. Development and assessment of a food safety training program for farmers’ market vendors
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Scheinberg, Joshua (author), Radhakrishna, Rama (author), and Cutter, Catherine (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-12-19
- Published:
- USA: Clemson University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12832
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 60, N. 4
- Notes:
- 9 pages, Based on results collected through a comprehensive needs assessment of farmers market (FM) vendors in Pennsylvania, the purpose of this study was to develop and pilot-test a customized, food safety training program for FM vendors. A customized 3-hour, in-person, training program was developed and pilot tested. Using pre- and post-test assessment tests through piloted training, the results found participants scores on knowledge questions increased significantly by ~20%.
4. All roads lead to the farmers market?: using network analysis to measure the orientation and central actors in a community food system through a case comparison of yolo and sacramento county, california
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fuchs‑Chesney, Jordana (author), Raj, Subhashni (author), Daruwalla, Tishtar (author), and Brinkley, Catherine (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-18
- Published:
- USA: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12600
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 17 pages, Little is known about how farms and markets are connected. Identifying critical gaps and central hubs in food systems is of importance in addressing a variety of concerns, such as navigating rapid shifts in marketing practices as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic and related food shortages. The constellation of growers and markets can also reinforce opportunities to shift growing and eating policies and practices with attention to addressing racial and income inequities in food system ownership and access. With this research, we compare network methods for measuring centrality and sociospatial orientations in food systems using two of America’s most high-producing agricultural counties. Though the counties are adjacent, we demonstrate that their community food systems have little overlap in contributing farms and markets. Our findings show that the community food system for Yolo County is tightly interwoven with Bay Area restaurants and farmers’ markets. The adjacent county, Sacramento, branded itself as America’s Farm-to-Fork capital in 2012 and possesses network hubs focused more on grocery stores and restaurants. In both counties, the most central actors differ and have been involved with the community food system for decades. Such findings have implications beyond the case studies, and we conclude with considerations for how our methods could be standardized in the national agricultural census.
5. Facilitators and barriers to farmers’ market use in a rural area
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jarvandi, Soghra (author), Johnson, Kristen (author), and Franck, Karen (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-06-16
- Published:
- United States: Clemson University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12614
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 60 Iss. 2
- Notes:
- 7 pgs, Farmers’ markets may improve access to healthful foods in rural areas. Our objective was to identify facilitators and barriers to farmers’ market use in a rural county. We collected data via surveys, focus group sessions, and key informant interviews. Study participants identified the two existing farmers’ markets as community assets. Barriers to use farmers’ markets included inconvenient market hours, not accepting nutrition assistance program benefits, limited transportation, and limited variety. Interventions to improve food access should include ways to meet the needs of specific populations such as low-income residents and residents living in outlying areas without farmers’ markets.
6. COVID-19 and marketing challenges for food producers in Louisiana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bampasidou, Maria (author), Frelier, Johannah (author), Coleman, Marcus A. (author), and Motsenbockerd, Carl E. (author)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2022-03
- Published:
- USA: Food Distribution Research Society
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12649
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Food Distribution Research
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 53, Iss.1
- Notes:
- 2 pages, The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the operations of many farm and food businesses across Louisiana. Producers had to adapt to changes or closures of market outlets, including farmers markets, farm-to-school programs, and restaurants. Using data collected from an online survey, this research examines pre- and post-pandemic marketing channels and challenges faced by food producers.
7. U.S. farmers markets—essential business survival in disrupting times
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Rossi, Jairus (author), Zare, Mahla (author), and Woods, Tim (author)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2022-03
- Published:
- USA: Food Distribution Research Society
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12635
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Food Distribution Research
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 53, Iss.1
- Notes:
- 10 pages, In this paper, we evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on farmers market (FM) sales across the United States during the 2020 operating season using survey responses from 420 market managers. Using a multinomial logit model, we evaluate how certain market characteristics are associated with increased probabilities of market organizations gaining or losing revenue in 2020. We find that SNAP sales changes, market location, and COVID-19 intensity impacted revenue outcomes. State COVID-19 policies for FM and the existence of FM assistance organizations had less of an impact.
8. Describing North Dakota small farmers and their connection with extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Berg, Lindy (author), Marx, Adam A. (author), and Hoffman, Travis W. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022
- Published:
- USA: American Association for Agricultural Education
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12670
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 63, N. 3
- Notes:
- 17 pages, Small farms and small farmers are a growing sector of the agricultural economy nationwide. Notably, small farms are influenced by similar antagonists to the success of their business as large, concentrated operations, but they experience it differently. The purpose of this study was to describe small farms and farmers in North Dakota to assist North Dakota State University Extension in defining their needs for programming development. We found that nearly 45% of small farmer respondents are women. Small farmers prefer to access information for their operations in a variety of ways but like to engage with Extension through more direct and personal means. Recommendations include developing programming targeted at female farmers and organizing Extension information resources targeted at small farm needs, specifically.
9. Covd-19’s impact on farmers market sales in the Washington, D.C., Area
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- O’Hara, Jeffrey K. (author), Woods, Timothy A. (author), Dutton, Nony (author), and Stavely, Nick (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01-31
- Published:
- UK: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12870
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 53, Iss. 1
- Notes:
- 16 pages, We use a sales database of farmers market vendors in the Washington, D.C., area to estimate how first half 2020 sales were impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. We use 2019 data as a counterfactual for sales that would have occurred in 2020 in the absence of COVID-19. For neighborhood weekend markets that were able to remain open during the pandemic, the change in 2020 average sales between the winter and spring is between 75% and 79% lower than in 2019. Other farmers markets, particularly weekday markets in business districts, experienced delayed openings or were closed for the entire year.
10. Social media use for farmers market communications in illinois
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tao, Dandan (author), Ruth, Taylor Kathryne (author), Maxwell, Janie (author), and Feng, Hao (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-12
- Published:
- United States: Extension Journal, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12275
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- vol. 58, num. 6
- Notes:
- 9 pages, Social media has been recognized as a powerful tool supporting communication of many topics in the agriculture industry. We explored the use of social media platforms among farmers market managers and specialty crop growers in Illinois through an online survey. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter were platforms used by the majority of respondents. We found that social media was used primarily for communicating with consumers for marketing purposes. We identified major training needs of farmers market stakeholders related to using social media to promote business and convey food safety information.
11. Survey of farmers market managers in california: food safety perspectives
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pires, Alda F. A. (author), Kukielka, Esther A. (author), Haghani, Viktoria (author), Stover, James K. (author), de Melo Ramos, Thais (author), Van Soelen Kim, Julia (author), and Jay-Russell, Michelle T. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10
- Published:
- United States: Extension Journal, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12287
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- v. 58, n. 5
- Notes:
- 14 pages, We conducted a survey to characterize certified California farmers markets (FMs) regarding location, seasonality, size, product, product labeling, advertising methods, postharvest practices, regulations governing vendors, training offered, and training interests. Data obtained from the survey highlight the need for improvement regarding food safety and can serve as a basis for development of collaborative education by Extension educators, regulatory agencies, and FMs. Extension professionals can play a proactive role in such training opportunities, focusing outreach efforts for training according to applicable findings and including online training venues to maximize reach to stakeholders.
12. Puerto Rico's push for food independence intertwined with statehood debate
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Miller, Jenna (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-06-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 198 Document Number: D09754
- Notes:
- NPR: The Salt. 5 pages.
13. What characteristics define participants of Michigan’s healthy food incentive program?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Parks, Courtney A. (author), Jaskiewicz, Lara J. (author), Dombrowski, Rachael D. (author), Frick, Hollyanne E. (author), Hortman, Sarah B. (author), Trumbull, Elissa (author), Hesterman, Oran B. (author), and Yaroch, Amy L. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-04-27
- Published:
- USA: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 11 Document Number: D10342
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Planning Education and Research
- Notes:
- 7 pages., Via online journal., To characterize participants of a statewide healthy food incentive program in terms of shopping behaviors, surveys were collected at farmers markets (N = 436) and grocery stores (N = 131). Farmers market and grocery store respondents were mostly forty-five to fifty-four years old (21 percent to 24 percent) and female (72 to 82 percent). Grocery store respondents were more diverse. Farmers market participants were more likely to be female (p = .011), not have children (p = .006), and traveled further compared to grocery store participants. As healthy food incentive programs expand, participant characteristics should inform tailored outreach to expand to diverse populations to have a greater public health impact.
14. New urban-rural relationships and the emerging of places for joint consumption and innovation of food
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Milone, Pierluigi (author), Ventura, Flaminia (author), and Swagemakers, Paul (author)
- Format:
- Proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08822
- Notes:
- Pages 683-703 in Rob Roggema (ed.), Agriculture in an urbanizing society volume two: proceedings of the sixth AESOP conference on sustainable food planning. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pages 601-1274.
15. Consumers' sense of farmers' markets: tasting sustainability or just purchasing food?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Giampietri, Elisa (author), Koemle, Dieter B. A. (author), Yu, Xiaohua (author), and Finco, Adele (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-11-10
- Published:
- Italy
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08765
- Journal Title:
- Sustainability
- Journal Title Details:
- 8(11), 1157
- Notes:
- 14 pages.
16. Chicago marketplaces: advancing access to healthy food
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Roubal, Anne (author) and Morales, Alfonso (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08845
- Notes:
- Pages 191-211 in Dawson, Julie C. and Morales, Alfonso (eds.), Cities of farmers: urban agricultural practices and processes. United States: University of Iowa Press, Iowa City. 333 pages.
17. Cities of farmers: urban agricultural practices and processes
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dawson, Julie C. (author) and Morales, Alfonso (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- United States: University of Iowa Press, Iowa City.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08840
- Notes:
- 333 pages.
18. Foregrounding community building in community food security: a case study of the New Brunswick community farmers market and Esperanza Garden
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lawson, Laura (author), Drake, Luke (author), and Fitzgerald, Nurgul (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08843
- Notes:
- Pages 141-158 in Dawson, Julie C. and Morales, Alfonso (eds.), Cities of farmers: urban agricultural practices and processes. United States: University of Iowa Press, Iowa City. 333 pages.
19. Communication at farmers’ markets: commodifying relationships, community and morality
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Garner, Benjamin (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-07-01
- Published:
- USA: SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10231
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Creative Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 10(2) : 186-198
- Notes:
- 13 pages., Via online journal, Consumers are increasingly using their purchasing power to enact their politics and activism. I examine how consumption at farmers’ markets fits into this trend. The consumption of local and organic food and the number of farmers’ markets have drastically increased in recent years. This research examines the ways interpersonal relationships, community ties and morality (ethical consumption) relate to commodification at local farmers’ markets. Specifically, this research is framed through Marx’s understanding and critique of capitalism, including his concept of commodity fetishism. Using Radin’s (1996) indicia of commodification, I explore the degree to which relationships, community and morality either are commodifiable or resist commodification. Using a combination of extant literature as well as interview and observational data from a 2011–2012 market study, I discovered that relationships and community ties resist commodification but morality is commodifiable in this space. Specifically, I argue that the contingent and voluntary nature of human communication as a two-way process is one of the key reasons that interpersonal relationships and community ties resist commodification.
20. Examining farmers markets’ usage of social media: An investigation of a farmers market Facebook page
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cui, Yue (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- New Leaf Associates, Inc
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10899
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(1):87-103
- Notes:
- 17 pages., via online journal., Social media are transforming communication between organizations and their audiences, and even changing the organizations themselves. Social media's low cost and low requirements for technical skills needed to both use and maintain an online presence allow small businesses with limited marketing budgets to use the same marketing strategies as bigger businesses with large marketing budgets. In addition, social media provides businesses direct and interactive ways to reach out and retain customers. This case study analyzes Cedar Park Farmers Market (CPFM)'s use of its Facebook page. Using Facebook Graph API Explorer, we extracted data regarding posts and fans of CPFM's Facebook page since the page was created. We then examined the data to explore the social networks, including farmers market organizers, vendors, and customers, within CPFM's Facebook page and how the market used its Facebook page, by looking at the Facebook page layout, composition of fans, post intensity, post ownership, media type, and degree of engagement. We found that (1) the market organizers, customers, vendors, and local communities were all engaged with the CPFM Facebook page; (2) the CPFM used Facebook as a marketing platform to publish timely information (e.g., available products or upcoming events) and to reach and retain customers and vendors; and (3) the CPFM's Facebook page functioned as a cyber–social hub to connect and engage the local community.