Items by Brett Wolff | Extension Specialist
2022-2025: Price Trends of Three Spring Crops at Kentucky Farmers Markets
By Brett Wolff | Extension Specialist
Published on Jul. 28, 2025
I am a 2025 Center for Crop Diversification Summer Fellow, and this research is supported by the Kentucky Horticulture Council’s Student Research Grant Program and the Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund.
Annual Price Increases Slowing at Kentucky Farmers Markets
By Brett Wolff | Extension Specialist
Published on Jan. 31, 2025
The Center for Crop Diversification team has compiled the latest 3-year Average Price Report for Kentucky Farmers markets in their new publication (CCD-FS-32).
Farmers Market Purchase Frequency
By Azita Varziri | Postdoctoral Scholar,
Brett Wolff | Extension Specialist,
and Tim Woods | Extension Professor
Published on May. 24, 2024
Farmers markets are an anchor to a community's local food system and represent a high profile channel for local food system development in most communities. This study investigates various demographic and behavioral aspects that influence purchasing patterns at farmers' markets.
Price Dynamics at Kentucky Farmers Markets, 2021-2023
By Brett Wolff | Extension Specialist
Published on Feb. 28, 2024
In a previous Economic and Policy Update article, 2023 Kentucky Vegetable &am
Small Fruit, Big Local Demand
By Brett Wolff | Extension Specialist
Published on Aug. 31, 2021
In discussions with Direct Marketers (including farmers markets, on-farm and roadside markets, as well as Community Supported Agriculture operations) across the state an informal theme that continually arises is the popularity and demand for fresh local fruit, and particularly small fruit like strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries
Produce Auctions Have Seen Higher Prices Amid COVID-19 Challenges
By Brett Wolff | Extension Specialist and Tim Woods | Extension Professor
Published on Jul. 28, 2020
Like all agricultural businesses operating in the midst of the challenges posed by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, produce auctions have had to make some adaptations to comply with social distancing and other recommendations and mandates.