Agriculture Retail Industry
One of our clients, a project team at a professional services firm, would like to speak to individuals knowledgeable about the agricultural retail industry, including how it has evolved over the past 10-20 years.
Note: north american-based contacts only, please.
Note: client is working on behalf of an agricultural retailer. Ideal contacts will have recently left agricultural production/retail companies (ex: crop production services, growmark, helena chemical co, chs, etc.), and had 10-20+ years of industry experience.
Topics of discussion might include:
- how has agricultural retail evolved over the last 20 years in terms of risks, challenges, margins, etc.?
- what does it take to succeed in agricultural retail today, and how is this different from 10-20 years ago?
- how variable is performance among the different agricultural retailers, and how much of a role does scale play?
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in the land of industrial-scale agriculture, truck farming -- small-scale fresh fruit and vegetable production -- is booming, encouraged by the rising consumer interest in food grown locally, an industry worth $7 billion. The country has 8,100 farmers' markets, and nearly 150,000 farmers and ranchers sell their products directly to consumers. Some 44 percent of schools have links to local farms for student meals.
To encourage the trend, the us government on june 9 launched local food, local places, a program that provides experts in agricultural, transportation, the environment and the regional economy to rural communities to help them build local food systems
but it is a tough row to hoe. Âto make a good standard of living for a conventional corn and soybean farm, it takes up to 2,000 acres (800 hectares). If you want the same standards of living on a vegetable farm, you could probably do it on 10 acres, said craig chase, an economist at iowa state university who has been watching the rise of sustainable, organic, and local farming in the us since the 1980s.
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