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With a declining share of the domestic meat market, some beef producers are becoming more attentive to opportunities for value-added products tailored to the desires of certain consumer segments. Using a survey of St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri meat consumers, this study investigates...
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for owner-managers making marketing decisions. We assess whether managerial/firm characteristics directly affect the …
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expected utility theory, is related to several marketing alternatives, but does not exhibit substantially greater explanatory …
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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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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 study analyzes the effect of the presence of Wal-Mart Supercenters on the prices at conventional supermarkets in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Using price indexes constructed from primary price data on a basket of 54 goods and holding several demographics and market...
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Crop producers have numerous marketing and risk management tools available. Research relating producers’ risk attitudes …
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Pricing to market (PTM) has been examined extensively in the recent trade literature using Knetter's (1989) model. The technique is typically applied using export unit values that aggregate differentiated products. We examine the potential bias in PTM results when using export unit values using...
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CSA farms establish a loyal customer base and, potentially, market power. Two new empirical industrial organization (NEIO) approaches and survey data from Northeast CSA farms are used to determine the presence and extent of market power. Results suggest CSA farms exert only about 3.5 percent of...
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