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Vermont

Vermont has been conducting Local Food Counts since 2011, with the most recent taking place in 2020. Vermont’s count has utilized the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Expenditure Series to estimate total in-state food expenditures. NEFNE’s local food counts for the other New England states utilizes the USDA’s Food Expenditure Series, which prior to 2023 was unavailable at the state level. Utilizing the State Food Expenditure Series increases the estimate for total food purchases within Vermont, and therefore changes the estimated percentage of local food purchasing in the state. In order to include Vermont’s data for our regional percentage, our Research team used the local food sales data from Vermont’s 2020, applied the total food expenditures from the USDA series for 2020 to recalculate the local percentage of the total, and then held that percentage constant and adjusted it to the 2022 USDA food expenditure data. As a result, the Vermont calculations and percentages for total and local food expenditures in this reporting reflect a 2022 estimate and do not match what is reflected in Farm to Plate’s Data Dashboard from 2020.

Note about Connecticut Maps

Note About Connecticut Maps: Although Connecticut has not had county governments since 1960, county boundaries have historically been used to depict data. For example, all USDA Census of Agriculture data for Connecticut is collected at a county-level. In 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau shifted to using Connecticut’s nine planning regions as county equivalent geographic units for data collection. This has presented a challenge for depicting data for Connecticut’s planning regions in Tableau. This mapping challenge has not been resolved yet, but when a solution is available, we will update Connecticut maps.