Commercial growers in the East operate on a relatively small land base with production costs that are generally higher per unit of crop output. This places them at a competitive disadvantage against larger commodity growers from other states where production costs are comparatively lower and the...

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This study integrates production and financing to examine the impacts of financial structure change on the production, profitability, and productivity growth in the U.S. food manufacturing industry. Empirical results show that during the period covered by this study, agency cost associated with...

This paper reexamines supply response in the Northeastern fresh tomato market during the 1949-94 period by employing cointegration and error correction technique. It tests whether there has been a long-run equilibrium relationship between Northeastern production and a set of price and nonprice...

This study analyzes U.S. consumers' valuation of five types of genetically modified food labels on a cornflakes cereal product. Using a nationwide survey and choice-modeling framework, results indicate that consumers value the label "contains no genetically modified corn" the most with a mean...