Subject: Re: looking for statistics (fwd)

From: "five springs farm" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:27:29 -0500

The Robyn Van En Center at Wilson College is coordinating a census of CSA
farms and will be compiling much of the information listed here. Contact
them at 717-264-4141 x3247 or [email-masked] They have a web site that
you can find by going to our site and click on "State by State Guide to
CSAs".

The census forms just went out and if you have a CSA you should have
received one. If not, it probably means that they didn't know about you.
Contact them right away if you want to be included in the research and data
base.

Jim and Jo
The Community Farm Newsletter
http://www.mufn.org/public/tcf
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. <[email-masked]>
To: community supported agriculture <[email-masked]>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 6:45 PM
Subject: looking for statistics (fwd)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:06:33 -0800
From: Michael Straus <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], Andrew Marshall <[email-masked]>
Subject: looking for statistics

Howdy.  Writing an article (roughly:  new internet direct marketing
opportunities for small farmers) specifically: CSAs, Farmers Markets and
U-Picks - and I'm looking for some base-line statistics and information,
such as:

* the number of small scale produce growers nationally
* breakdown of crop types and volume
* total acreage represented by these farmers
* percentage of over-all market
* number who are either registered or certified organic, biodynamic
* profile or farmers available for profiles
* Any statistics about how many of these farmers are on-line or have access
to computers, or use computers for operations and/or marketing

Many thanks.

Michael

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Michael Straus
Beyond Organic - Public Relations & Marketing for Progressive Agriculture
22890 Highway 1, Marshall, CA 94940 USA
phone: 415-663-8343; fax: 415-663-8346
www.beyondorganic.com; [email-masked]

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