for fruits and vegetables together using a trade-weighted arithmetic average of 1989 to 1992 wholesale prices of selected … on prices of fruits and vegetables and to determine the hedging effectiveness of potential futures contracts written on … these indexes. Twenty representative fruits and vegetables were chosen to compile indexes for fruits, for vegetables, and …

civilians, and price inflation, prices received for fruits and vegetables have greatly increased. Undoubtedly the present price …. Returns were low. During this period keen competition for the sale of fruits developed between individual growers and various … producing areas. Although the problems of adjustment were severe in most fruit areas of the west, the marketing situation was …