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 …

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 …

soybean production forecasts during 1970/71 through 2003/04 marketing years. The analysis revealed that markets consistently …

producers' marketing philosophy are hypothesized to influence the impact of MAS on producers' marketing decisions. Data from 656 … U.S. producers were used and the impact of MAS on producers' marketing decisions was tested using an ordered probit … recommendations are delivered, and the match between MAS and producer's marketing philosophy are important factors explaining the …

program's marketing recommendations and the average price/revenue offered by the market along the marketing window. The … portfolios of advisory programs. Results suggest that farmers can benefit from following the marketing recommendations of …

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 …