What makes consumers buy, or what causes them not to buy, has long been the subject of research, and today it is a well worn topic of conversation. Agricultural economists are professionally concerned with consumers' demand for food and the motivation of their choices. Through the years,...

A recently published model of the livestock-meat economy is used to illustrate modifications that permit us to obtain a reasonable and consistent set of projected values to 1980. Ecollomic theory and an understanding of the industry were used to introduce a set of assumptions about institutional...

The Hop Administrative Committee of the hop marketing order has been reasonably accurate m projecting quantities supplied and demanded and in formulating their recommended salable percentage to the Secretary of Agriculture The Federal Hop Marketing Order has helped stabilize hop acreages and...

In analyzing the behavior of firms, economists have long distinguished between the in,f1nence of fixed and variable costs. There have gradually appeared in the budgets of many companies certain cost items like promotion and advertising which are allocated for a given period, but which are...

Cover; In This Issue written by Clark Edwards; Contents

Cover; In This Issue written by Gerald Schluter; Contents

The costs of obtaining a given level of accuracy in estimating yields of tree fruit might be lowered by the use of photographs or supplemental information on fruiting potential. A small-scale experiment of this sort is described for peaches and apples. A procedure for evaluating the relative...

Books Reviewed: "Farmers in the Market Economy"; "The Concept of Poverty"; "The Techniques of Urban Economic Analysis"; "Agriculture in Economic Development"; "Natural Resources and International Development"; "Introducing Social Change, A Manual for Americans Overseas"; "Oxford Regional...