"Farmers' markets are valuable market channels for small farmers and important venues for the economic, nutritional, and social lives of communities. Efforts to make farmers' markets sustainable should focus on two influences on markets: external (related to public policy) and internal (related to market management). Well-crafted public policy is needed...
Oregon growers produced 53.8 million bushels of wheat in 1989 with an estimated farm value of $228.8 million, making wheat among the highest valued farm crops in the state. Wheat production is a particularly important agricultural enterprise in Oregon's Columbia Plateau. In 1989, five counties in the Columbia Plateau accounted...