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The Food Marketing System in 1996

Gallo, Anthony E. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1998

New food product introductions fell sharply in 1996. The number of new plants, consumer advertising expenditures, and common stock prices reached new highs in 1996, as did the number of mergers in the foodservice industry. Profitability from food manufacturing and retailing was higher due to...

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How Transport Costs Affect Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Prices

Volpe, Richard; Leibtag, Ephraim S.; Roeger, Edward - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2013

This report examines the ways that fuel prices are transmitted to wholesale produce prices via transportation costs. Specifically, it focuses on marketing costs for asparagus,cantaloupes, table grapes, oranges, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Results of the study indicate that transportation costs...

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Welfare Impacts of a Trade Restriction: An Equilibrium Approach and Application in the Potash Industry

Canning, Patrick N.; Vroomen, Harry - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1994

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World Agriculture: Trends and Indicators, 1970-91

Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1993

The tables in this bulletin provide aggregate economic and agricultural growth, performance, production, and trade … account for over 99 percent of the world population, agricultural production, and trade. The indicators cover such topics as … population, macroeconomic indicators, food consumption, factors of production, commodity production, trade, and efficiency of …

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Fertilizer Trade Statistics, 1970-91

Vroomen, Harry; Taylor, Harold - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1993

trade balance, relatively stable before 1983, has shifted as the United States became a net importer of nitrogen beginning …

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U.S. Strawberry Industry

Bertelsen, Diane - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1995

Record-high U.S. strawberry production in 1993 and another large crop anticipated in 1994 continue the growth trend that began in the 1970's. California produced nearly 80 percent of the U.S. crop on less than half of the strawberry acreage due to higher output per acre than other States. Grower...

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Examining Intertemporal Export Elasticities for Wheat, Corn, and Soybeans: A Stochastic Coefficients Approach

Conway, Roger K. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1985

The response of export demand to price changes for selected agricultural products did not become elastic over the 1969-77 period. This report is the first to test empirically the hypothesis that, during the 1970's, competition increased and the United States became a marginal exporter of farm...

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Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States September/October 1990

Warden, Thomas - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1990

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Agricultural Statistics of Australia, 1960-86

Swann, Nina M. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1987

, consumption, and trade of grains, oilseeds, other crops, and livestock, poultry, and dairy products for Australia. Selected data …

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Japan’s Agri-Food Sector and the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Dyck, John; Arita, Shawn - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2014

Japan’s agriculture has been inward oriented, protected by trade barriers from foreign competition. Even though the … agreement would lead to more agricultural exports to Japan from TPP partners, likely dominating the total agricultural trade …

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