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Food Flows

Last week I posted some crude calculations on how much states import and export various foods from other U.S. states.  Sandy Dall'erba from the University of Illinois alerted me to a dataset that gets at this question in a different way through records of interstate shipments (the FAF database from the Bureau of Transportation).  Sandy graciously agreed to let me share this figure he created based on these data.

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You can read more about Sandy's work with Zhanglaing Chen here or contact Sandy to get a copy of their working paper "Drought, Interstate Trade and Agricultural Profit: Theory and Evidence" presented this year at the North American Regional Science Conference in Vancouver.