Welcome
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.
Featured Information
Commodities and Products
Pumpkins - Pumpkins are grown primarily for processing, but a small percentage is grown for ornamental sales. U.S. pumpkin production in 2007 was valued at $117 million.
Wine Industry - After Prohibition (1920-1933), the U.S. wine industry had to be re-established. By 2007, however, the number of commercial wineries had grown to nearly 5,000 and the retail value of wine sales totaled $30 billion.
Renewables
Feasibility Assessment Template for an Enzymatic Hydrolysis Lignocellulosic Ethanol Plant - This newly released tool, prepared at Oklahoma State University, is designed to assess the feasibility of building an ethanol plant. Users may input such key information as plant capacity, feedstock, equipment costs and personnel and then perform a sensitivity analysis, thus determining how plant profits will be affected by internal and external changes. A guide to using the template is provided.
Food Industry MarketMaker
Data from Around the Country
MarketMaker 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.
