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  2. Impact of farmers' markets on economies within the United ...

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    The IMPLAN input-output model is a quantitative economic software, technique, or data that facilitates analysis of spending. [1] This analytic tool, created by the U.S. Forest Service and the University of Minnesota, uses the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) input-output criterion combined with other data to compile tables that identify cash flows between different sectors of the economy.

  3. Farmers' market - Wikipedia

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    An autumn farmers' market in Farmington, Michigan A farmers' market at twilight in Layyah, Pakistan Blueberries in late July 2023 at the Jean Talon Market in Montreal. A farmers' market (or farmers market according to the AP stylebook, [1] [2] also farmer's market in the Cambridge Dictionary [3] [4]) is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers.

  4. Agricultural economics - Wikipedia

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    In the field of environmental economics, agricultural economists have contributed in three main areas: designing incentives to control environmental externalities (such as water pollution due to agricultural production), estimating the value of non-market benefits from natural resources and environmental amenities (such as an appealing rural landscape), and the complex interrelationship ...

  5. Why Supply and Demand Is Important to You and the Economy - AOL

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    In an unimpeded market, supply and demand determine the value of a product or service. ... like the kind the government pays to farmers to compensate for low crop prices. Other times, governments ...

  6. Community-supported agriculture - Wikipedia

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    This kind of market holds "economic rents" where the consumer surplus comes from the consumers' willingness to pay for something further than the product as well as for the products inputs themselves. [1] Although these markets still exist within a larger capitalist economy, they are able to exist because of the "economic rents" that are collected.

  7. Agrarian society - Wikipedia

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    In agrarian society, cultivating the land is the primary source of wealth. Such a society may acknowledge other means of livelihood and work habits but stresses the importance of agriculture and farming. Agrarian societies have existed in various parts of the world as far back as 10,000 years ago and continue to exist today.

  8. What are the most important issues for NJ farmers ... - AOL

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    Rep. Josh Gottheimer met with agricultural constituents Thursday at the New Jersey State Fair to hear what issues they believed should be addressed.

  9. Agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. [1] Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in the cities.