@article{O’Hara_Benson_2019, place={Ithaca, NY, USA}, title={Where Have All the Direct-Marketing Farms Gone? Patterns Revealed from the 2017 Census of Agriculture}, volume={9}, url={https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/735}, DOI={10.5304/jafscd.2019.091.046}, abstractNote={<p>Food system researchers and practitioners have used the U.S. Census of Agriculture historically as a bellwether to measure changes in the direct-marketing sector. The U.S. Department of Agricul­ture has made considerable improvements in meas­uring this sector in recent years, which formed the basis for the phrasing of the 2017 Census of Agri­culture direct-marketing questions. While the new ques­tions make it challenging to infer direct-marketing trends between 2012 and 2017, the 2017 Census of Agriculture data nonetheless reveals a considerable decline in the number of farms selling directly to consumers and wholesalers in the U.S. We discuss possible explanations for this decline and implica­tions for the direct-marketing sector</p> <p>See the <a title="press release archive " href="http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=488966&f=60033&s=84565&m=982411&t=257c360ddc23fcec50d37942ed548ee4169a6c0d76d51e227fa886af9ecdf0c7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> for this article. </p>}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development}, author={O’Hara, Jeffrey and Benson, Matthew}, year={2019}, month={Aug.}, pages={31–37} }