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Social Media for Business

These are the library's two most comprehensive business databases. You'll get plenty of results searching just "social media". Add terms to provide a focus. Example: "social media" AND agriculture retrieves over 22,000 results in ABI/INFORM.

Consumer Spending, Produce Spending, Organic Spending

Consumer Price Index, Alaska area: February 2019 -- BLS
Table 1 shows fruits and vegetables.
Food Markets and Prices -- USDA ERS
Information from the USDA's Economic Research Service, including price indexes, expenditures & costs, marketing costs, local food data, and more.
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Fruits and Vegetables -- Federal Reserve
Shows monthly changes; scroll down to see related resources, including monthly, semiannual, and historical data.
Consumer Expenditure Surveys -- BLS
Contains both general and specific spending data in various tables. The most granular data is in the Metropolitan Statistical Area Tables. Anchorage is a column in the Western MSAs file.
Who's Buying: Executive Summary of Household Spending (ebook)
Overview of household spending in 2013, including specific information on fresh fruits and vegetables, and comparative spending data back to 2000.
QuickSearch: organic spending/purchasing articles
This is a results page for a QuickSearch (search box on the library home page) for articles about organic purchasing. Change search terms as necessary.
Organic Agriculture -- USDA ERS
Information from the USDA's Economic Research Service, including a market overview and several relevant related articles.

Agriculture in Alaska

QuickSearch: Alaska agriculture
This is a results page for a QuickSearch (search box on the library home page) for articles with the terms Alaska agriculture in the abstract. Change search terms as necessary.
Alaska information -- USDA NASS
Links to Alaska statistics and publications from USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Google search: Alaska agriculture -.com sites
Google search for Alaska agriculture excluding commercial .com websites from results.
Regional Business News search
Search results for Alaska agriculture in the library's Regional Business News database.

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