USDA news release indicates growing importance of food hubs to expansion of local / regional food systems
From the first-ever benchmarking survey on local food marketing practices, conducted by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service:
“More than 167,000 U.S. farms locally produced and sold food through direct marketing practices, resulting in $8.7 billion in revenue in 2015, according to the results from the first Local Food Marketing Practices Survey released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).”