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Supply Chain Basics: Niche Agricultural Marketing, The Logistics

Vanwechel, Tamara; Vachal, Kimberly; Berwick, Mark - Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009

Many small and mid-size farm operators compete successfully in today’s agricultural marketplace by supplying specialty farm products. Growing numbers of consumers and commercial buyers are interested in purchasing farm products with specific qualities. These customer preferences may be as...

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Moving Food Along the Value Chain: Innovations in Regional Food Distribution

Diamond, Adam; Barham, James - Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture - 2012

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 …

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Marketing Maine Tablestock Potatoes

Berney, Gerald; Grajewski, Gregory; Hinman, Don; … - Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture - 2010

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 …

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RETAIL SALES: DO THEY MEAN REDUCED EXPENDITURES? GERMAN GROCERY EVIDENCE

Loy, Jens-Peter; Weaver, Robert D. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2003

Retail pricing strategies incorporate promotions, sales, and rigidities. A number of models have been proposed in particular to explain the occurrence of sales. Focussing on the market for fresh foods the model by Varian and the loss leader argument seem to be intuitively best fitting to the...

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THE IMPACT OF TRANSPORT- AND TRANSACTION-COST REDUCTIONS ON FOOD MARKETS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: EVIDENCE FOR TEMPERED EXPECTATIONS FOR BURKINA FASO

Ruijs, Arjan; Schweigman, Caspar; Lutz, Clemens - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2003

Reductions in transport and transaction costs are expected to have a major effect on the functioning of food markets in developing countries. For many developing countries, this is a relevant issue as it may have important consequences for the food markets in urban and rural deficit areas. A...

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Milk Handling in the Supply Chains: The Case of Smallholder Retail Outlets In Nakuru, Kenya

Birachi, E. Abucheli; Owuor, George; Hanf, C.-Hennig - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

This paper characterises smallholder milk outlets in Nakuru district one of the major milk producing Districts in Kenya, and also analyses factors that influence their current operating and handling capacities. Data comes from four divisions of the district. A sample of 137 smallholder milk...

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Local Polynomial Fitting and Spatial Price Relationships: Price Transmission in the EU Markets for Pigmeat

Serra, Teresa; Gil, Jose Maria; Goodwin, Barry K. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

We apply nonparametric methods to assess price transmission processes within the EU pig markets. We compare results derived from nonparametric regressions with those obtained using alternative nonlinear threshold models. Results show that nonparametric regressions support the parametric results....

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Quality Premiums and the Post-Harvest Spot Market Thinness: The Case of U.S. Peanuts

Nadolnyak, Denis A.; Fletcher, Stanley M. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

In the paper, we analyze two issues that are important in the U.S. peanut markets: the absence of explicit quality premiums in the crop contracts, and the thinness of the postharvest cash/spot markets, which obstructs the operation of current production support policies. We argue that...

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Differential Effects Rail Deregulation in the U.S. Grain Industry

Vachal, Kimberly; Bitzan, John; Vanwechel, Tamara; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

The efficiency benefits of U.S. rail industry deregulation are well documented in previous studies of rail productivity and declining rail rates. This research provides new insight regarding the accrual of these benefits within the grain industry. A disaggregate study of corn, wheat, and soybean...

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Trust and Control Dynamics in Agrifood Supply Networks: Communication Strategies for Electronic Transaction Environments

Fritz, Melanie; Hausen, Tobias - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

Agrifood supply networks are dynamic structures where firms regularly face the need to search for new market partners. A decision for a transaction with a new partner requires the existence of appropriate control and safeguard mechanisms as well as trust to overcome perceived risk and...

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