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The Economic Feasibility of Expanding Iowa's Fresh Vegetable Production for the Commerical Wholesale Market

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  • Weimar, Mark R.
  • Hayenga, Marvin
  • Hallam, Arne
  • Calkins, Peter H.

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The current financial crisis in Midwestern agriculture has prompted farmers and policymakers to search for profitable alternative crops that can diversify Iowa's agriculture so that farmers and the state economy will be less reliant on corn, soybeans, cattle and swine. Among the alternative crops suggested for diversifying Iowa agriculture are fresh vegetables for the commercial wholesale market.

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  • Weimar, Mark R. & Hayenga, Marvin & Hallam, Arne & Calkins, Peter H., 1987. "The Economic Feasibility of Expanding Iowa's Fresh Vegetable Production for the Commerical Wholesale Market," ISU General Staff Papers 198701010800001160, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
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