Introduction to food loss in the produce industry / Travis Minor and Suzanne Thornsbury -- Loss and waste: are we really measuring a problem? / Elise Golan, Travis Minor, and Suzanne Thornsbury -- Existing efforts in measuring and modeling early value-chain food losses / Brian E. Roe -- Economic...

This study introduces the accrual anomaly problem in the agribusiness literature. The authors document the accrual anomaly, introduced by Sloan (1996) for the complete U.S. market, in the food supply chain. A mimicked risk-free trading strategy shorting high accrual agribusinesses and longing...

This study examines empirical relationships of earnings, accruals, and cash flows for the U.S. food supply chain sector (i.e., agribusiness) and compares them with results for the complete U.S. market. In addition, we evaluate earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization...

This study examines empirical relationships of earnings, accruals, and cash flows for the U.S. food supply chain sector (i.e., agribusiness) and compares them with results for the complete U.S. market. In addition, we evaluate earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization...

Over the past twenty years, the R&D-based agricultural biotechnology industry has exhibited cyclical behavior in consolidation. This paper provides a positive, theoretical model of endogenous R&D, in which the number of firms engaged in R&D exhibits cyclical behavior. Additional, empirically...