model with respect to their implications for declining farm value shares. …

local economies through total sales, net revenue, farm value, taxes paid, payroll, and purchases of fertilizer, seed, and …

investigate the impacts of these three factors on the determination and changes of farm value share systematically. Our results … imply that non-constant return to scale and market power is central to the understanding of farm value share. These in turn … impacts of exogenous shocks on the changes on farm value share. …

. The prices farmers received for commodities, as measured by the farm value of USDA's market basket of foods, dropped 4 ….4 percent. The farm value share of the food dollar spent in grocery stores in 1997 was 23 percent, a decrease of 2 percent from …

value, the farm value, and the spread of a fixed sample of food products included in the market basket. The first model …