Escalating media advertising costs have prompted shifts away from advertising to non-advertising promotion activities in the dairy industry’s generic commodity promotion program. As advertising budgets become tighter, determining the optimal allocation of these funds becomes particularly...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the impacts of generic milk and cheese advertising on dairy markets. The results indicated that generic milk and cheese advertising by dairy farmers and fluid milk processors had major market impacts for the dairy industry. The main conclusion of the...

By endogenizing unit value and coupon redemption, we estimate U.S. household cheese purchase, quality choice, and coupon redemption equations simultaneously. Zero purchases and missing values are taken into account in the model to correct for the selectivity bias. The correlations among the...

An analysis of 102 survey responses from generic commodity promotion organizations was completed. Details regarding objectives, export promotion, funding sources, program evaluation, and the allocation of expenditures for promotion organizations were evaluated. We estimate that the organizations...

Thispaperexaminestwo majorgenericfluidmilkadvertising campaigns in New York City during the 1986-92 period Estimates from a time-varying parameter model show that the evolution ofthe impact ofgeneric advertising on fluid milk sales over each campaign followed a bell-shaped pattern. Results also...

The purpose of this report is to catalog, describe, and provide information concerning existing models of the dairy sector. Many types of dairy models are listed in this report. The models vary by geographic aggregation (e.g., farm, state, regional, national, and international levels), time...

Previous constant-parameter demand models have estimated generic advertising elasticities for cheese to be below that for fluid milk. We relax this assumption, allowing for generic advertising response to vary over time. Cheese advertising elasticities were found below fluid milk up until the...