Organic farmers have traditionally relied on a variety of marketing channels, suggesting that earned organic income will depend on the farmer's experience in producing and selling organic products and their comparative advantage in bargaining and marketing skills. A discrete choice model of the...

We model a two-level supply chain where Nash bargaining occurs upstream, while firms compete in a differentiated products logit setting downstream.The parameters of this model can be calibrated with a discrete set of data on prices, margins, and market shares. Using a series of numerical...

Participation rates for farm women in off-farm labor markets continue to increase, as does their participation in making major farm decisions such as whether to buy or sell land, adopt a new production practice or invest in farm equipment. Data from the Survey of U.S. Farm Women conducted in...