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 …

This paper tests the conventional wisdom that U.S. marketing orders act as profit-maximizing cartels. The paper … analyzes the marketing order for U.S. almonds in both the domestic and export markets. Such a case study is relevant to all U ….S. marketing orders because the size and scope of the U.S. almond industry on the world market, and the legal authority of the …

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 …