The Economic Importance of Agri-Food Industries in Iowa
Description
This study investigates the value of Iowa’s agri-food industries. The investigators define the agri-food industries to include agricultural production, primary food processing, other agricultural commodity processing, and agricultural input manufacturing and distribution activities. These definitions are used to aggregate data obtained from the IMPLAN economic impact modeling system (MIG, Inc.) to generate both industry-specific estimates of output value and value added in production and an export-based analysis of agri-food exports from Iowa which include all Iowa-sourced input values. These estimates are compared with statistics generally available from the USDA, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Census of Agriculture to provide a perspective of how and why statistics from various sources differ and the implications of these differences. The analysis consists of a state report for Iowa, which contains full explanatory text, and county supplements for each Iowa County, which provide county-specific data and references back to explanations in the state report.
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"The Economic Importance of Agri-Food Industries in Iowa"
Posted: 07 Aug 2008 11:10 AM
