A spatial, multiproduct equilibrium model featuring United States-Mexico long-grain rice trade is developed to determine the effect of removing Mexico's rice tariffs in 2003 on U.S. rough and milled rice exports to that country. Analysis considers rice milling costs and yields in the United...

The geographic diversification mode for U.S. agribusinesses to establish an international presence is examined, using the example of table grapes. This study extends the analytical work on geographic diversification strategy in a firm-level application that considers how longer marketing seasons...

This study investigates the performance of meat and poultry plant managers in discovering and responding effectively to food safety problems that lead to product recalls. Timing is used as a performance measure of managers' response to recalls of food, using survival distributions of times...

Canada and Japan import about three-fourths of US onion exports. Imports demands are specified for Canada and Japan and then estimated by joint generalized least squares. Results show FOB onion price in the United States and the price of domestically produced onions in the importing country have...

This study identifies several socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of individuals who have consumed food away from home using the recent 1987-1988 National Food Consumption Survey (the individual intake portion). The analysis was performed using logit analysis. The significant...

Testing for asymmetric price transmission and calculating elasticities of price transmission are important areas of research for providing insights into market efficiency issues. We analyze the behavior of tests for asymmetry according to the conventional Houck approach and to the von...

This study identifies several demographic and psychographic characteristics of consumers who have tried lean meat products from a particular retail food chain in Houston. The relevant characteristics included: (1) age, (2) residency in Texas, (3) education level, (4) household size, and (5)...

Using IRI Infoscan data for six brands of spaghetti sauce and employing the Rotterdam model, estimates were obtained for own-price, cross-price, and total expenditure elasticities for 43 market areas of the United States. Variability of own-price, cross-price, and expenditure elasticities across...

This article constitutes a trial of the use of scanner data to investigate the demand for fresh beef products (brisket, chuck, ground, loin, rib, round, and all other beef). Own-price elasticities are negative, statistically significant, and in the elastic range. Own-advertisement elasticities...