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Farm and Food: Local growers and rural grocers should be allies
By Alan Guebert
If you think growing food in rural America is a tough business, you should try selling food groceries in rural America.
Just how tough is it?
The 2019/20 Minnesota Rural Grocery Survey Report that found 77% of the state’s rural grocery stores make “an average or lower than average net profit of 1.1% after taxes.”
As thin as that ice might be, the Minnesota report, conducted by Regional Sustainable Development Partnership of the University of Minnesota’s Extension Service, still found many rural storeowners are committed to serving their communities and customers.