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| Dimitri, Carolyn; Greene, Catherine R.. |
| Organic farming is one of the fastest growing segments of U.S. agriculture. As consumer interest continues to gather momentum, many U.S. producers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers are specializing in growing, processing, and marketing an ever-widening array of organic agricultural and food products. This report summarizes growth patterns in the U.S. organic sector in recent years, by market category, and describes various research, regulatory, and other ongoing programs on organic agriculture in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Organic agriculture; Organic farming systems; Organic marketing; Organic marketing channels; Certified organic acreage and livestock; Price premiums; National organic rules; Specialty agriculture; High-value crops; USDA research; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33715 |
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| MacAulay, T. Gordon. |
| The nature of the competition policy public benefit tests, applied to various agricultural industries, is reviewed. Then, various analytical techniques that have been applied to the assessment of the public benefit test are examined. These techniques include analysis of price premiums, consideration of pooling and averaging, pricing to market tests, what-if scenarios, market power analysis, and price discriminating monopolist models. Some of the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches are summarised. Generally, all of these approaches have various strengths and a number of weaknesses so that the case for the assessment of costs and benefits must substantially depend on the logic of the effects of the regulation rather than the results of any... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Competition policy; Price discrimination; Pricing to market; Price premiums; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123697 |
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