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The nine counties surrounding Grinnell and Fairfield

Mon, 07/17/2006 - 3:30pm — Jelal Younes
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Outline of Two Regions36.94 KB
Davis County Map31.65 KB
Henry County Map31.79 KB
Jasper County Map40.96 KB
Jefferson County Map36.88 KB
Marshall County Map34.22 KB
Poweshiek County Map33.83 KB
Tama County Map31.89 KB
Van Buren County Map31.67 KB
Wapello County Map37.45 KB

There are nine Iowa counties of interest in this project. These include the four counties surrounding the town of Grinnell (Marshall, Tama, Jasper, and Poweshiek), and the five in the vicinity of Fairfield (Wapello, Jefferson, Davis, Van Buren, and Henry).

A map of the state of Iowa with the two regions outlined is shown in the attached file entitled "Outline of Two Regions."

Grinnell Region
Total Farmers' Markets: 7
Total Number of Residents: 113,442
Number of Farmers' Markets per 100,000 Residents: 6.17

Marshall County:

  • Population: 39,311
  • Area (square miles): 572.316467
  • Median household income (U.S. Census 2003 estimate, in dollars): 39,887
  • Number of Farmers' Markets: 3
  • Number of Farmers' Markets per 100,000 Residents: 7.63
  • Farmers' Market Map (A green circle next to a city's name indicate the presence of a Farmers' Market in that city): See attached file "Marshall County Map"
  • Farmers' Market: Marshalltown
    • Hours in session per week: 5
  • Farmers' Market: Marshalltown
    • Hours in session per week: 6
  • Farmers' Market: State Center
    • Hours in session per week: 3

    • Tama County:

    • Population: 18,103
    • Area (square miles): 721.297920
    • Median household income (U.S. Census 2003 estimate, in dollars): 38,939
    • Number of Farmers' Markets: 2
    • Number of Farmers' Markets per 100,000 Residents: 11.05
    • Farmers' Market Map: See attached file "Tama County Map"
    • Farmers' Market: Toledo
      • Hours in session per week: 2
  • Farmers' Market: Traer
    • Hours in session per week: 2

    • Jasper County:

    • Population: 37,213
    • Area (square miles): 729.988413
    • Median household income (U.S. Census 2003 estimate, in dollars): 44,698
    • Number of Farmers' Markets: 1
    • Number of Farmers' Markets per 100,000 Residents: 2.69
    • Farmers' Market Map: See attached file "Jasper County Map"
    • Farmers' Market: Newton
      • Hours in session per week: 3

    Poweshiek County:

    • Population: 18,815
    • Area (square miles): 585.034711
    • Median household income (U.S. Census 2003 estimate, in dollars): 39,884
    • Number of Farmers' Markets: 1
    • Number of Farmers' Markets per 100,000 Residents: 5.31
    • Farmers' Market Map: See attached file "Poweshiek County Map"
    • Farmers' Market: Grinnell
      • Hours in session per week: 5

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    Fairfield Region
    Total Farmers' Markets: 6
    Total Number of Residents: 88,918
    Number of Farmers' Markets per 100,000 Residents: 5.62

    Wapello County:

    • Population: 36,051
    • Area (square miles): 431.808628
    • Median household income (U.S. Census 2003 estimate, in dollars): 34,448
    • Number of Farmers' Markets: 1
    • Number of Farmers' Markets per 100,000 Residents: 2.77
    • Farmers' Market Map: See attached file "Wapello County Map"
    • Farmers' Market: Ottumwa
      • Hours in session per week: 6

    Jefferson County:

    • Population: 16,181
    • Area (square miles): 435.340811
    • Median household income (U.S. Census 2003 estimate, in dollars): 33,726
    • Number of Farmers' Markets: 1
    • Number of Farmers' Markets per 100,000 Residents: 6.18
    • Farmers' Market Map: See attached file "Jefferson County Map"
    • Farmers' Market: Fairfield
      • Hours in session per week: 9

    Davis County:

    • Population: 8,541
    • Area (square miles): 503.239640
    • Median household income (U.S. Census 2003 estimate, in dollars): 33,954
    • Number of Farmers' Markets: 1
    • Number of Farmers' Markets per 100,000 Residents: 11.71
    • Farmers' Market Map: See attached file "Davis County Map"
    • Farmers' Market: Bloomfield
      • Hours in session per week: 3

    Van Buren County:

    • Population: 7,809
    • Area (square miles): 484.818445
    • Median household income (U.S. Census 2003 estimate, in dollars): 32,088
    • Number of Farmers' Markets: 2
    • Number of Farmers' Markets per 100,000 Residents: 12.81
    • Farmers' Market Map: See attached file "Van Buren County Map"
    • Farmers' Market: Keosauqua
      • Hours in session per week: 4
  • Farmers' Market: Bonaparte
    • Hours in session per week: 3

    • Henry County:

    • Population: 20,336
    • Area (square miles): 434.437309
    • Median household income (U.S. Census 2003 estimate, in dollars): 39,899
    • Number of Farmers' Markets: 1
    • Number of Farmers' Markets per 100,000 Residents: 4.92
    • Farmers' Market Map: See attached file "Henry County Map"
    • Farmers' Market: Mount Pleasant
      • Hours in session per week: 4.5

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    Iowa Farmers' Market directory information from http://www.agriculture.state.ia.us/farmermarket.asp

    Iowa county maps from http://www.iowa.org

    Iowa county population and income data from http://www.census.gov
    Iowa county area data from http://county-map.digital-topo-maps.com/iowa.shtml

    Keywords: 
    Food economies
    Local food systems
    Farmers Markets

    Want to find out where your food comes from?

    Thu, 06/29/2006 - 4:37pm — Jelal Younes

    Check out http://www.foodroutes.org/

    Find out where your food comes from, how you can buy local, why you should buy local, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), "Buy Fresh, Buy Local," and much more.

    Keywords: 
    Food economies

    Forecasting Consumer Price Indexes for Food

    Fri, 08/04/2006 - 4:21pm — Jelal Younes

    Located here is an article entitled "Forecasting Consumer Price Indexes for Food: A Demand Model Approach," by Kuo S. Huang. Huang uses an inverse demand function to assess the change in quantity demanded for a variety of goods (including beef, eggs, fruits, vegetables, cereal) based on a one percent change in price of that good. Huang presents a chart that shows, for example, that a one percent increase in the price of poultry would result in a .84 percent decrease in the quantity demanded of poultry. He also gives figures for cross elasticity of demand: A one percent increase in the price of red meat, for example, .91 percent decrease in the quantity demanded of beef.

    Huang uses six aggregate food quantities and per capita income to for forecasting consumer price indexes. Huang himself admits that relying on this information may harm the accuracy of his study.

    Not only can we not be sure that his information is reliable, the figures he presents are not as useful as I first thought for our model. Most importantly, we are interested in data for very precise demographics It does us little good to see how the American in general responds to a change in price of a particular good (even if this information is accurate): we need to know a middle income Poweshiek County resident who buys 40% of her food locally responds to a change in price. Perhaps Haung's data and methodology will provide us with a starting point for obtaining relevant figures of our own

    Keywords: 
    Economics
    Markets
    Food economies

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