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Developing A Social Marketing Plan For Direct To Consumer Agricultural Operations, Madelaine Giebler
Developing A Social Marketing Plan For Direct To Consumer Agricultural Operations, Madelaine Giebler
Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology Undergraduate Honors Theses
Since the 1980 farm crisis, the agricultural economy has continued to decline with United States farmers receiving less than 16 cents per dollar spent on food (Dunnum, 2017). As a way of combatting decreased profitability, agricultural producers are turning to direct marketing (Rainey, et al., 2011). Direct marketing exists as a social marketing in which producers develop a personal relationship with their customers (Rainey, McGraw, & Popp, 2011; Weinreich, 2011). In order to be successful in social marketing, the audience with which they are trying to reach must be determined as well as the most effective way to meet the …