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nature of the Class I fluid milk price transmission process and the milk pricing strategies of supermarkets in the five …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 …
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milk prices have seen dramatic increases in volatility. Further, shrinking profit margins are requiring more and more dairy …Fluid raw milk has become one of the largest agricultural commodities, as measured by gross sales, produced in the … United States. Since the federal government began to loosen its control over dairy prices in the early 1980’s, farm level …
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Legislation has prompted changes in milk price volatility. Milk price volatility impacts the producer's exposure to … futures contracts to lock in a price for milk produced. The producer's risk preferences dictate the producer's hedge ratio …
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The recently signed Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) grants the U.S. livestock industry with preferential access to South Korea's import market. This study evaluates the likely impacts of the KORUS FTA on the U.S. livestock sector.Using the Food and Agricultural Policy Research...
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bargaining position of individual farmers.This article investigates the relative bargaining strength of one milk marketing … cooperative andseveral fluid milk processors. The Nash bargaining model can be used to analyze the negotiatedprice in the Florida … fluid milk market which acts like a bilateral monopoly. The milkmarketing cooperatives have bargained well with the milk …
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making digester adoption more widespread. For the U.S. Dairy sector, we examine digester adoption rates, emissions reductions … would need to adopt digesters to meet the policy goals of reducing 25% of greenhouse gas emissions from dairy manure or … generating one million megawatt hours of electricity per year. A carbon pricing program provides the highest net social benefits …
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The New England fishing industry is presented in detail including an historical review, a discussion of current difficulties, and an examination of the public policy dilemma between resource conservation and industry promotion. Continuing efforts to revitalize the United States fishing industry...
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In 1973, the New England Fishery Development Program (NEFDP), an industry/government partnership was formed to offset a portion of the economic decline of the New England fishing industry while encouraging the development of underutilized species and nontraditional fishery products. The purpose...
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This paper examines the potential causes of the subprime loan crisis and discusses its impact in the United States. The root causes of the crisis include unethical practices by brokers and lenders, a lack of corrective action by credit rating agencies, lax regulation by the Federal Government of...
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