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Understanding how consumers respond to information about animal production systems is important both for animal activist groups and for agricultural producers alike. This is particularly true as information conveyed over platforms such as YouTube both decrease the cost of communication and...
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A bivariate probit model was used to examine the relationship between actual and intended purchase of irradiated beef. The likelihood ratio test rejected the equality of parameters affecting actual and intended purchase decisions. Actual purchases were affected by package labels and appearance,...
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An analytical framework where consumers display preferences for various qualities of an agricultural commodity is used to investigate the producer welfare effects of generic advertising assessments. Depending upon the degree of product differentiation present in the final goods, some producers...
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The elimination of the marketing quota system that regulated the peanut market since the 1930s has been accompanied by … the emergence of marketing contracts between farmers and peanut buyers (mainly peanut shellers). Two types of contracts … the main role of the contracts is to replace the marketing structure existing prior the 2002 Farm Act, where peanut …
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This paper considers whether generic promotion lowers the differentiation among competing brands as claimed in the 1997 Supreme Court case (Wileman et al. v. Glickman). Commodity promotion is modeled as a multi-stage game where products are vertically differentiated. Analytical results show that...
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n the paper, we study price transmission from wholesale peanut prices to retail peanut butter prices. Using monthly data since 1984, we show that, while an increase in peanut prices is almost immediately transferred to peanut butter prices, it takes several months for a price decrease to be...
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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 …
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This paper estimates the impact of generic and brand advertising on the demand for peanut butter in the U.S. An error correction model is estimated with quarterly data from 1985 to 2004 to study both the short- and long-run adjustments. The results indicate that brand advertising has a...
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