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This research tests for causality between indexed retail pork revenues and pork advertising. Evidence was found of feedback between revenues and total pork advertising, but not between revenues and generic advertising. In fact, generic advertising was found to have no significant impact on...
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milk marketing institutions and their association with cooperative marketing functions sheds light the interdependency of … government involvement in milk marketing. We examine the role of cooperatives to determine whether cooperative market power can … on the dairy policies in place today. In absence of milk marketing orders, we find it likely that cooperatives will be …
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The study uses a partial equilibrium model to determine the benefits that would accrue to smallholder dairy producers and consumers from improved efficiency of Tanzania’s informal dairy value chain. Two sources of technical efficiency are analyzed, namely, cost efficiency and scale efficiency....
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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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Replaced with revised version of paper 07/18/10.
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The increasing use of production contracts in the hog sector has reduced the number of spot market transactions, raised concerns about price manipulation and helped to spur legislation requiring price reporting by packers. Using data from the 2002 and 2007 Censuses of Agriculture, this study...
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In this paper, the new empirical industrial organization approach with a dynamic model is simultaneously employed to measure the degree of oligopoly, oligopsony power, and cost efficiency in the U.S. beef packing industry. The oligopsony power is estimated with two effects: cash cattle...
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Ultrasound technology is available for accurately measuring intramuscular fat (IMF) in live pigs. This report provides information on the costs for pig producers and processors to implement this technology and what consumers are willing to pay for pork with improved levels of intramuscular fat....
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