World fresh vegetable trade increased more than fourfold between 1962 and 1982. The major trading areas include virtually the entire world- Latin America, the United States, Canada, the European Community, the Middle East, the Far East, Africa, and the non-EC Western European nations. An...

Changes over time in consumer demand, influenced by advertising, may not be accounted for in traditional, fixed parameter explanatory and forecasting models. A distributed lagged advertising model was developed and tested with coefficients that had random and systematic adjustments. A variable...

US expenditures on beef products have shown a slow but consistent increase during the last decade. Beef purchases are determined largely by product attributes and the importance that consumers attach to them. Preferences have changed and consumers have become more concern about beef quality,...

In 2002, a new farm bill radically changed the U.S. peanut industry by eliminating the marketing quota system, requiring the industry to adjust to a more uncertain, market-oriented environment. This paper reports results from a survey of peanut manufacturers in nine countries identifying their...

Probit models based on household diaries show the likelihood for buying beef, fish, pork and poultry by brand. Brand preferences for each meat type are estimated and the impacts of a range of variables are ranked according to the likelihood of buying branded meats.