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This study examines vertical coordination in the wine industry emerging in Illinois. We find that quality matters as temporal issues related to grape perishability increase the probability of written contracts being used to procure grapes. Holdup concerns related to sourcing adequate quality...
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The Oklahoma Food Cooperative (OFC) facilitates transactions between producers and consumers of locally-grown food … items. Although the OFC has more than 3,000 members, the cooperative is still working to discover member needs and ensure … driving their current and continued participation in the cooperative. Findings suggest that producer-members and consumer …
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This paper examines the profitability of a balanced sample of 58 North Dakota farm supply and grain marketing cooperatives over the period 2003– 2007. Our findings reveal that increased liquidity tended to allow farm supply cooperatives to operate more efficiently, but reduced the...
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partnerships, 5) cooperative corporations, and 6) limited liability companies. Various organizational features of these forms of …
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n the Peruvian jungle, there are two main cocoa marketing channels: the intermediaries and the cooperative. The … Acopagro Cooperative, a Peruvian organization, for example, has contributed to the shift from illegal crops like cocoa to an …
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The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete …
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Since the seminal work of Adam Smith, markets have been considered an efficienttool for co-ordinating the behaviour of economic agents. The basic characteristicof a market economy is that the complex system of interaction amongindividuals is not centrally coordinated. Under the assumption of...
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In recent decades there has been a substantial increase in the scale of production and the use of production contracts in the hog sector. This paper explores empirically whether these two phenomena are related by examining whether the use of production contracts has allowed finish hog operations...
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This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agriculturalenterprises during their transition to a market economy in Ukraine. In this case the efficiencyis calculated by data envelopment analysis and the productivity change is measured by theMalmquist...
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