In addition to the conventional auction method of cattle marketing, alternative marketing arrangements include sale by private treaty, video auction, retained ownership, and use of strategic alliances. This study examines use of alternative marketing arrangements and types of producers using...

Factors influencing farmer selection of a crawfish marketing outlet were analyzed using 2008 survey data from the Louisiana crawfish industry. Most farmers sell directly to wholesalers. Probit results show farm size, farm income, household income, age, education, and pre-market grading and...

This paper analyzes historical movements in the commodity futures market and the relationship to inflation. Specifically, the relationship between the Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) Index and United States inflation is investigated. It is said that the relationship between the CRB index and the...

Steel is used as a case study to decompose the links between primary and secondary markets, in order to examine how prices in the one market influence the prices in the other, and how volatility can be transmitted between them.

Replaced with revised version of paper 04/21/04.

Budgets were used to estimate additional identity-preserved wheat production costs that ranged from $0.81 to $5.35 per bushel. A survey was developed to estimate the feasibility for country elevators to market identity-preserved wheat and the premiums required to do so; estimated premiums...

Researchers have been preoccupied with finding ways to select among various functional forms of demand system. This study addresses this concern by proposing a formulation which obviates the need to choose among various functional forms. The approach is tested using four functional forms of the...

GIS is an emerging marketing tool. This study examines the Georgian landscape plant retail market using GIS in conjunction with other traditional market research tools. Spending and logistic regression propensity scores are analyzed for prevailing geographic patterns. This allows retailers to...

Examine the integration between U.S. and Mexican cantaloupe and watermelon prices using cointegration and error correction model approach. Cointegration analysis shows significant post-2002 improvement in market integration, particularly in the speed at which the market adjusts to departures...

Replaced with revised version of paper 02/13/07.