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The Agricultural Marketing Resource Center is an electronic, national resource for producers interested in value-added agriculture. Browse commodities and products, investigate market and industry trends, study business creation and operation, read research results and locate value-added resources.


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Commodities and Products

  • Catfish - Did you know that farm-raised catfish are the fourth most popular seafood consumed in the United States? Only shrimp, tuna and cod are more popular.

  • Eggs - Americans are eating fewer in-shell eggs but more processed egg products such as frozen and dried eggs. This coincides with the domestic trend toward increased consumption of prepared foods and fast foods, which often incorporate processed eggs.

  • Onions - Onions are one of the three largest and most highly valued vegetable crops. Traditionally, Northern states grow storage onions, which are harvested in the fall, stored and sold from September to March. Southern states grow fresh market onions, which are shipped immediately and sold from March to August.  


Markets and Industries

  • Tourism - What are the chacteristics of typical domestic travelers? According to the Travel Industry Association of America, they take short trips (two nights or less) to visit family and friends, driving their own vehicle to the destination. While there, their most common activities are shopping and dining. 


Food Industry MarketMaker  


Market Maker national portalMarketMaker is a national partnership of land grant institutions and State Departments of Agriculture dedicated to the development of a comprehensive interactive data base of food industry marketing and business data. It is currently one of the most extensive collections of searchable food industry related data in the country. All the information can be mapped and queried by the user.  . . MarketMaker

 

 
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