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A Comparative Regional Analysis of the Wholesale Marketing Margin for Crushed Cottonseed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

M. Dean Ethridge
M. Dean Ethridge*
Affiliation:
University of Georgia
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Economic events since the 1972–73 crop year have generated much interest in cottonseed prices. Cotton producers, observing a doubling of wholesale prices of cottonseed oil and meal during the last three years, have wondered whether they are getting an equitable share of this increased income. They have largely stopped thinking of their cottonseed as merely a means of payment for ginning charges and have begun to regard it as a potential source of supplementary income.

The limited objective of this paper is to examine, by regions, the wholesale marketing margin for cottonseed during the crop years of 1958–1973 in order to (1) more clearly determine how the marketing margin has behaved and (2) discover differences, if any, among regional marketing margins.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , July 1975 , pp. 185 - 196
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1975

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