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The Ag Marketing Resource Center at Iowa State is a rich library of information to help you understand and analyze the food industry in terms of value-added markets and industries.
The food industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and impacts all of United States' agriculture. For more information on specific topics within the food industry, click here.
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Kenny's Farmhouse Cheese
In the early 1990's, Kenny Mattingly of Kenny's Farmhouse Cheese, whose family milks about 120 dairy cattle in Barren County, Kentucky, was worried about the future of milk as a commercial commodity - and especially about whether he and his family could continue to make a living on their 200-acre farm. After a farm trip to Europe, he returned with a different notion. He was impressed with the way small family farms in Western Europe were finding ways to add value to their products and market to their local communities. It gave him a new vision for his farm.
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MarketMaker is Seeking Partners
MarketMaker has enjoyed an extensive network of partners and collaborators over the years that includes universities, governmental agencies and agricultural organizations. Grass roots engagement has been key to our successes. If you would like to bring Food MarketMaker and its suite of tools and services to your group, locality or state please consider becoming a partner. We are a scalable platform that can serve the local community or a national network of stakeholders.
MarketMaker was the most successful tool that gave me access to wholesale markets. A Farm-to-Fork grocery store in the next state was able to find my okra operation from a post (Buy-Sell Forum) in minutes.
—Thomas Leonard, Modern Harvest Farms, Woodruff, SC
News
USDA Value-Added Producer Grants Announced for 2018
Sep 1, 2017 - Approximately $18 million available in grants for value-added ag enterprises started by farmers, ranchers, foresters, or fishermen. Read more»
2016 Farm Credit MarketMaker Innovation Awards
Nov 15, 2016 - Louisiana, Michigan, and Iowa Honored with 2016 Farm Credit MarketMaker Innovation Awards Read more»
Collaboration between AgMRC and MarketMaker Paves Way for New Food Mapping Tool and Educational Resources
Nov 24, 2015 - Finding food-related businesses and related educational information on a single website will soon get a lot easier. Thanks to collaboration… Read more»
Events
Sep16
20th National Value-Added Ag Conference
The 20th annual National Value Added Conference is coming to Alexandria, Virginia, September 15th-18th, 2018 Read more»