The late 1990's is a period of substantive change in U.S. dairy policy with respect to import quotas, export subsidies, and classified pricing under state and federal milk marketing orders. An interregional model of the U.S. dairy sector is used to provide quantitative measures of the regional...

The demand for fluid milk products has changed dramatically in recent years not only in terms of lower levels consumed but also in terms of the composition of the products consumed. A time-series based demand system analysis of the market for lowfat and whole milk products is developed...

Canadian Special Milk Classes have been the focus of longstanding WTO disputes on whether they work as export subsidies. This paper models the Special Milk Classes and Commercial Export Milk (CEM) explicitly in the U.S. and Canadian dairy trade and finds their effects. The effects of trade...

In a period of market liberalization and multilateral trade negotiations, price discrimination for commodities with distinct markets provides additional policy options to support farm income. While both the USA and Canada have implemented price discrimination policies in their domestic dairy...

This research explores the theoretical and applied issues associated with endogenous switching systems where market prices are bounded by policy instruments such as price supports Options for estimation of model parameters and their associated standard errors are identifdied and explored...

The paper considers an industry transforming primary commodities (farm products) into processed commodities (food products). It focuses on the allocation of embedded characteristics (carbohydrate, protein, etc.) both across space and among commodities. The approach generates a spatial...