Ken Meter Crossroads Resource Center (Minneapolis)

1. The Future of Food in Oregon Ken Meter Crossroads Resource Center (Minneapolis) Oregon Food Bank Network Meeting Portland April 24, 2008

2. Financial partners: • Oregon Food Bank • The Holland / Burgerville • University of Minnesota • Experiment in Rural Cooperation (SE Minnesota) • Northwest & West Central Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships • Food Systems Working Group (Value Chain Partnerships project) — Aldo Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University • University of Wisconsin Extension • Northern Arizona University — Ctr Environmental Studies • W. K. Kellogg Foundation (Michigan) • Community Alliance with Family Farms (California) • Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Program (NC) • University of Hawaii — Manoa • FarmAid • Northwest Area Foundation • ALCES Foundation(Massachusetts) • Washington State University • Roots of Change (San Francisco) • Manitoba Food Charter (Winnipeg)

3. “Finding Food in Farm Country” Studies plus Maui & Hawai’i 35 regions — 17 states

4. Local Farm & Food Economies The perspectives of the communities where commodities are produced and used... …are often overlooked

5. Vision for local food economies Build: Health Wealth Connection Capacity

8. Clark County, Washington Source: 2000 Census

9. Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

10. Poverty 31,027 School Lunch 73,062 (21%) Source: 2000 Census

11. Clark County Four of every five farms is less than 50 acres Source: Ag Census

12. Clark County rankings in state • 2nd in broiler chicken inventory (662,000) • 3rd in sheep & goat sales ($253,000) • 4th in acres of berries grown (1,389) • 4th in Christmas tree acreage (1,057) • 6th in sales of Christmas trees • ($1.3 million) • 6th in poultry sales ($7 million) Source: Ag Census

14. Farm Production Balance in Clark County, Washington, 1969- 2005 Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

15. Farm Production Balance in Clark County, Washington, 1969- 2005 Costs reduced since 1987 One great year little improvement since 1985 $4.7 million lost over last 11 years Source: BEA

16. Clark County • County farmers sell • $58million of crops & livestock per year (11-year average 1995-2005) And… • Spend $59 million to produce them Source: BEA

17. Clark County • Lose $400,000 in production costs • (average loss per year since 1995) Source: BEA

18. Crop & livestock sales in Clark County, Washington, 1969- 2005 Source: BEA

19. Clark County 67% of county’s farms reported net losses in 2002 Source: Ag Census

20. Clark County Farms Dairy & livestock decline Fruit orchards decline Farmers raise nursery plants Farms sold to developers Number of consumers increases

21. $30 million of farm inputs are purchased from outside the county each year. Source: Ken Meter using data from Ag Census

22. Clark County food businesses All told… $ 2,302 million sales 22,870 jobs 1,667 firms Source: Dun & Bradstreet (2007) and U.S. Economic Census (2002) — understates actual

23. Clark County consumers spend $807 million on food each year To eat at home: $ 449 million To eat out: $ 358 million • $700 million fromoutside county Source: Census & BLS

24. All told, Clark County... • Loses $400,000 in production, & • Buys $30 million of outside inputs • Buys $700 million of outside food Potential wealth lost each year

25. Total loss to Clark County is: • $730 millioneach year! • 12 times the valueof all products produced in the county • 91% of the value of all food consumed in the county

26. Columbia Gorge Partner: Gorge Grown Network

27. Columbia Gorge Partner: Gorge Grown Network

28. Columbia Gorge • Orchards export to: • Mexico • Columbia • India • Russia

29. Columbia Gorge Hood River Valley: Respected producer of organic fruits for juice

30. $124 million less than 1969 $750 million loss since 1990

31. Ten Rivers region Partners: Ten Rivers Food Web, OSU, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, NWAF

32. Ten Rivers region Map: OSU Extension

33. Ten Rivers region Partners: Ten Rivers Food Web, OSU, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, NWAF

34. City of Corvallis — Household Income Levels Poverty 9,166 School Lunch 15,537 (35%) Source: 2000 Census

35. Ten Rivers Food Web Linn County: First in U.S. in grass & seed acreage (2002) 184,000 acres — 48% of harvested land $85 million of grass and hay sold (56% of county farm sales)

36. Benton & Linn Counties

38. Crop & livestock sales in Ten Rivers region, 1969 - 2004

39. Ten Rivers 67% of region’s farms reported net losses in 2002 Source: Ag Census

40. Portland Metro area

42. Oregon

43. $560 million less than 1969 $2.2 billion lost since 1982

45. U.S. data

46. Farm Production Balance in U.S., 1969- 2001 $40 billion less than 1969 Source: BEA

47. Change in Farm Production Balance, 1969 - 2002 Map by Ken Meter, 2005 Source: BEA

49. Wall Street Journal: US is becoming net food importer Source: Adamy, WSJ, January 31, 2005

50. U.S. agri-trade balance 1976 1986 1996 Source: USDA/ERS and Census Bureau