Survey data from 311 garden centers, landscapers, and combined garden center|landscaping firms in selected western US trade centers were factor analyzed. Six first-order factors of product and service attributes were identified: plant selection, product information, supplier services and...

A cost-minimizing spatial model of the US grain marketing system is used to evaluate impacts of locational changes in the demand for US grain exports. The major grain exports are included in the analysis. Total supply and demand are held at representative levels as the location of export demand...

The signing of the 1988 Japan Beef Market Access Agreement has provided the US beef industry easier access to the Japanese market. To fully exploit the export opportunities afforded by the agreement, US producers may need to target, at least partially, the high-valued market niches. A hedonic...

The demand for and supply of Norwegian farmed Atlantic salmon in the United States and European Community are estimated using a dynamic specification and monthly statistics spanning from 1983 through 1987. Time series analysis is conducted to generate future values of exogenous variables which...

A survey of professional tomato buyers indicated that handlers and nonhandlers of organic tomatoes had common perceptions of the organic market and its limitations. Both groups identified the following factors as constraining the organic market: low demands by consumers and retailers,...

Household beverage consumption is investigated using data from the National Food Stamp Program Survey conducted in the United States. A censored Translog demand system is estimated with the full-information maximum-likelihood procedure. All own-price effects are negative and significant, and...

Previous studies using consumer surveys based on contingent valuations gave inconsistent or even contradictory results with respect to the impact of some consumer characteristics on organic foods consumption. Using actual retail-level data, this study provides an objective view of the consumers'...

The recent plunge in the price of Norwegian farmed Atlantic salmon provoked salmon farmers in the United States, Scotland, and Ireland to file dumping litigations against Norway. A dynamic econometric model was constructed to depict the world salmon market and was used to simulate the impacts of...