{"id":1913,"date":"2010-04-26T15:18:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T19:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2010-04-26T15:18:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T19:18:21","slug":"is-local-produce-more-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/04\/26\/is-local-produce-more-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Is local produce more expensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not in Iowa, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leopold.iastate.edu\/pubs\/staff\/prices\/prices.pdf\">according to a study by the Leopold center for Sustainable Agriculture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Specific findings of the research show that the mean price per pound for the local farmers\u2019 market vegetable basket1 is $1.25, while the mean price per pound for the non-local supermarket vegetable basket is $1.39. It should be noted that the differences in price between the local and non-local vegetable baskets were not statistically significant. Additionally, if an individual were to buy one pound of each vegetable in the vegetable market basket, the local vegetable basket would total $8.84 while its non-local supermarket counterpart would total $10.45. Local price advantages mainly stem from the competitive pricing of zucchini and summer squash at farmers\u2019 markets. These price advantages could be due to factors such as abundant supply, seasonality, or weather.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tons of caveats, however, with seasonality being the biggest variable.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be great if someone in the North Country could conduct a similar study here.<\/p>\n<p>HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/berdie.wordpress.com\/\">Bernadette Logozar<\/a> at Cornell\u00a0 Ext.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not in Iowa, according to a study by the Leopold center for Sustainable Agriculture: Specific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}