This report examines the aggregation, distribution, and marketing of eight food value chains to glean practical lessons … about how they operate, the challenges they face, and how they take advantage of emerging opportunities for marketing … chains include: (1) Recruiting producers and developing producer networks; (2) Identifying, branding, and marketing …

The Marketing Services Division of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) was asked by USDA’s Agricultural … existing efforts to assist Maine fresh potato farmers in their search for alternative marketing strategies, and reverse the … the course of the investigation, they determined that Maine producers needed help in marketing their products and turned …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Illinois and Kansas over 1982 … average difference between farmer and market benchmark prices are sensitive to the market benchmark considered. Marketing … benchmark is used. The sensitivity of marketing performance to the market benchmark considered is explained by the seasonal …