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China’s melamine milk adulteration crisis highlights the challenges that arise as large well-capitalized companies … procure raw materials from a diffused supply chain of scattered small farmers and milk collection stations. As milk prices … climbed sharply in 2007 and companies branched out into new territories, intense competition for raw milk supplies …
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The analysis of the 2009 Uganda National panel Survey (UNPS) collected by the UBoS shows that milk production from … smallholder farm units was 1 billion litres, and about 52 percent (524 million litres) joined the second level of the milk value … chain – and of which 72 percent was marketed in unprocessed form to consumers. High informality in milk marketing can be …
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in the paper. The findings are used to test an econometric model utilizing data on Polish milk processing firms in the …
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The New York State Milk Price Gouging Law establishes that the retail prices of fluid milk products are not to exceed … 200% of the prices that NYS milk processors pay for Class I milk. The enforcement of this law significantly affected the … nature of the Class I fluid milk price transmission process and the milk pricing strategies of supermarkets in the five …
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The New York State Milk Price Gouging Law establishes that the retail prices of fluid milk products are not to exceed … 200% of the prices that NYS milk processors pay for Class I milk. The enforcement of this law significantly affected the … nature of the Class I fluid milk price transmission process and the milk pricing strategies of supermarkets in the five …
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In processing industries, plant location decisions are costly and have consequences for firm profitability. When raw materials are heavy or perishable, transportation costs limit shipping distances and processors must compete locally for raw material inputs. To determine the likely profitability...
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Conventional wisdom holds that a small and decreasing number of hog slaughter firms are using their "market power" to take advantage of U.S. hog producers. Existing studies have simply calculated industry concentration ratios and assumed/asserted that the performance of such a concentrated...
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evidence on competitive strategies in the skim/low fat milk, whole milk, cottage cheese, butter, margarine, and ice cream …
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We find sale prices and net revenues received by sellers in the Midwestern club pig market are higher at traditional face-to-face auctions than at comparable Internet auctions. The comparison overcomes adverse selection issues that commonly plague such analyses by using data from sellers that...
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A changing world of increasing complexity, fluctuating prices, high energy costs and limited data necessitate creative blending of economic theory and available empirical statistics to understand the welfare impacts in a specific market. In this paper, a programming approach is used in tandem...
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