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We conduct a best worst-ranking exercise to investigate consumers’ perception of the importance of twelve possible actions for a dairy farm engaging in Corporate Social Responsibility. Animal welfare is clearly identified as the most preferred activity and a top priority for most consumers....
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Using a best-worst ranking exercise we compare the inferences made by consumers regarding the nutritional value and healthiness of fluid milk and soymilk beverages under several combinations of three labeling regimes: front label, back label ( including the nutritional information panel), and an...
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This paper evaluates the economic consequences of milk marketing orders for producers and consumers in organic and … exemption of organics from marketing order regulation would make organic farmers better off at the expense of conventional …
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This paper documents the remarkable experience of the Far West mint producers in the operation of their marketing order …. From 1993 to 2002, the marketing order witnessed a dramatic reduction its share of the Scotch spearmint market, as well as … marketing order price as a logical consequence of increased world production of spearmint oil. We estimate an econometric model …
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This research shows that the existing literature on milk marketing orders misses an important effect. Previous work … ignores the interaction of marketing orders with milk grading regulation. We model this interaction and show that producer … benefits from marketing orders have been smaller than previous work suggests, and, under some conditions, may even be negative …
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Over the past two decades, consumer demand for niche products has grown substantially. The primary objective of this paper is to disentangle the value consumers place on two prominent food claims, organic and local (defined as Colorado Proud in this study) as they relate to fresh produce. Using...
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with developing, certifying, and marketing such products. We investigate the impact of several health-related credence …
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We develop a multi-market equilibrium displacement model that allows for demand linkages (substitutes or complements) across downstream product markets, and supply linkages through the common use of a raw commodity as the key input. Applying the model to the dairy sector, we find that the...
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