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The Virginia Wineries’ Websites: An Evaluation
Ferreira, Gustavo F.C.; Ferreira, Joao P.C. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012
the following four different dimensions: (1) general features of a website; (2) wine tourism; (3) marketing; and (4 …
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End User Preferences for USDA Market Information
Pruitt, J. Ross; Tonsor, Glynn T.; Brooks, Kathleen R.; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013
. Results indicate preference for farm level reports by Extension agents and leading economic indicators by agribusiness or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880632
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Fresh Vegetable Growers' Risk Perception, Risk Preference and Choice of Marketing Contracts: A Choice Experiment
Vassalos, Michael; Hu, Wuyang; Woods, Timothy A.; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013
Growers’ preferences for a number of marketing contract attributes as well as the effect of growers’ risk perception … and risk preferences on the choice of marketing contracts were examined with the use of a choice experiment. The main data …
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The Comparison of three Non-hypothetical Valuation Methods: Choice Experiments, Contingent Valuation, and Experimental Auction
Xie, Jing; Gao, Zhifeng - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013
This article examines the preferences revealed by three non-hypothetical experiments. We found that WTP estimates from the choice experiment are the highest, followed by that of contingent valuation methods, and then experimental auctions. Our results also suggest that the discrepancies among...
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Will Higher Shipping Costs Drive the U.S. to Source More Localized Produce?
Woods, Timothy A.; Saghaian, Sayed H.; Ona, Lucia Y. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009
The recent wide fluctuations in diesel fuel costs and subsequent trucking costs has raised speculation within the produce industry of potential structural shifts in the location of production. Recent increases in demand for local produce seem to further support speculation toward this end. A...
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Predicting the Corn Basis in the Texas Triangle Area
Mkrtchyan, Vardan; Welch, J. Mark; Power, Gabriel J. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009
This study develops a new and straightforward economic model of basis forecasting that outperforms the simple three-year average method suggested in much of the literature. We use monthly data of the corn basis in the Texas Triangle Area from February 1997 to July 2008. The results and the...
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Economics of Fish Marketing in Central Uganda: A Preliminary Analysis
Bukenya, James O.; Hyuha, Theodora; Twinamasiko, Julius; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012
was designed to solicit information on traders’ socio-economic characteristics, marketing characteristics, operating costs … and returns, and problems associated with fish marketing in the study area. Percentages were used to describe the socio …-economic characteristics, market characteristic and problems associated with fish marketing while gross profit and marketing performance models …
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Economic Performance of U.S. Multinational Agribusinesses: Foreign Direct Investment and Firm Strategy
Garcia-Fuentes, Pablo A.; Ferreira, Gustavo F.C.; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012
effect of firm size and FDI, marketing intensity and FDI, and capital intensity and FDI on performance. These findings … provide evidence that FDI activity is an important factor for U.S. agribusiness financial strength. …
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Market Competitiveness and Demographic Profiles of Dairy Alternative Beverages in the United States: The Case of Soymilk
Dharmasena, Senarath; Capps Jr., Oral - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012
Data from U.S. households for year 2008 were used in examining market competitiveness of soymilk using tobit procedure. Unconditional own- and cross-price elasticities are larger than their conditional counterparts. Income, age, employment status, education level, race, ethnicity, region and...
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Willingness to Pay for Imported Beef and Risk Perception: An application of Individual-Level Parameter
Lim, Kar Ho; Hu, Wuyang; Maynard, Leigh J.; Goddard, … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012
The controversy surrounding the Mandatory Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) has attracted research attentions. A number of studies have reported consumers are willing to pay more for beef labeled with U.S. origin versus beef from unknown or other origins. Despite that, relatively little is known...
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