Agricultural Programs
Special Report
- The Economic Importance of Agri-food Industries in Iowa
- Mark Imerman, David Swenson, Liesl Eathington, Daniel Otto
- September 2005
- Department of Economics
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
- This research was funded by the Coalition to Support Iowa’s Farmers
- This study investigates the value of Iowa’s agri-food
industries. The investigators define
the agri-food industries to include agricultural production, primary food
processing, other agricultural commodity processing, and agricultural input
manufacturing and distribution activities. These definitions are used to aggregate data obtained from the IMPLAN
economic impact modeling system (MIG, Inc.) to generate both industry-specific
estimates of output value and value added in production and an export-based
analysis of agri-food exports from Iowa which include all Iowa-sourced input
values. These estimates are compared
with statistics generally available from the USDA, the Bureau of Economic
Analysis, and the Census of Agriculture to provide a perspective of how and why
statistics from various sources differ and the implications of these
differences. The analysis consists of a
state report for Iowa, which contains full explanatory text, and county
supplements for each Iowa County, which provide county-specific data and
references back to explanations in the state report.
- State report
- County reports:
