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The Infant Formula Market: Consequences of a Change in the WIC Contract Brand
Oliveira, Victor; Frazao, Elizabeth; Smallwood, David M. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2011
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is the major purchaser of infant formula in the United States. To reduce cost to the WIC program, each State awards a sole-source contract to a formula manufacturer to provide its product to WIC participants in the...
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Direct and Intermediated Marketing of Local Foods in the United States
Low, Sarah A.; Vogel, Stephen J. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2011
This study uses nationally representative data on the marketing of local foods to assess the relative scale of local … food marketing channels. This research documents that sales through intermediated marketing channels, such as farmers … marketing food locally are most prominent in the Northeast and the West Coast regions and areas close to densely populated urban …
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How Much Lower Are Prices at Discount Stores? An Examination of Retail Food Prices
Leibtag, Ephraim S.; Barker, Catherine; Dutko, Paula - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2010
Nontraditional stores, including mass merchandisers, supercenters, club warehouse stores, and dollar stores, have increased their food offerings over the past 15 years and often promote themselves as lower priced alternatives to traditional supermarkets. How much lower are food prices at these...
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U.S. Cotton Prices and the World Cotton Market; Forecasting and Structural Change
Isengildina-Massa, Olga; MacDonald, Stephen - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009
This report analyzes recent structural changes in the world cotton industry and develops a statistical model that reflects current drivers of U.S. cotton prices. Legislative changes in 2008 authorized USDA to resume publishing cotton price forecasts for the first time in nearly 80 years....
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The U.S. Food Marketing System: Recent Developments, 1997-2006
Martinez, Stephen W. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2007
Major recent developments in the U.S. food system include the increasing presence of nontraditional grocery retailers, such as supercenters and drugstores, and competitive responses by traditional grocers, such as supermarket chains. These developments have contributed to sharp increases in...
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Growth and Equity Effects of Agricultural Marketing Efficiency Gains in India
Landes, Maurice R.; Burfisher, Mary E. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009
efficiency gains in agricultural marketing and reduce agricultural input subsidies and import tariffs. More efficient … agricultural marketing generates economywide gains in output and wages, raises agricultural producer prices, reduces consumer food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008546872
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Comparing Two Sources of Retail Meat Price Data
Hahn, William F.; Perry, Janet E.; Southard, Leland W. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009
The livestock industry uses information on meat prices at different stages in the marketing system to make production …
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The Decline in Consumer Use of Food Nutrition Labels, 1995-2006
Todd, Jessica E.; Variyam, Jayachandran N. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2008
This report examines changes in consumers’ use of nutrition labels on food packages between 1995-96 and 2005-06. The analysis finds that, although a majority of consumers report using nutrition labels when buying food, use has declined for most label components, including the Nutrition Facts...
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Menu Labeling Imparts New Information About the Calorie Content of Restaurant Foods
Stewart, Hayden; Hyman, Jeffrey; Dong, Diansheng - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2014
little new information from menu labeling. In this study, following research in marketing science and behavioral economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098004
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Effects of Marketing Loans on U.S. Dry Peas and Lentils: Supply Response and World Trade
Lin, William W.; Lucier, Gary - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2008
The 2002 Farm Act required USDA to implement marketing loans for the 2002-07 crops of dry peas, lentils, and small … that marketing loans played a role in expansion for dry peas in 2003-05 and for lentils in 2003. For dry peas and lentils …, marketing loans contributed to acreage expansion in North Dakota and Montana. Simulation model results suggest that marketing …
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