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Economic Impact of Federal Marketing Orders — The Florida Winter Tomato Case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2016

John R. Brooker  and
James L. Pearson
John R. Brooker
Affiliation:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, with the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
James L. Pearson
Affiliation:
Commodity Economic Division Economic Research Service, Washington, D.C., and was formerly Stationed at Gainesville, Florida
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Marketing agreements and orders have been used for several decades by various commodity groups in an effort to stabilize and increase the level of farm income. These programs are tools to be used in a “self-help” fashion. They do not automatically solve an industry's marketing problems. For instance, if an industry has continuous interseasonal supply control difficulties, a marketing agreement may actually aggravate the problem it was intended to solve. However, intraseasonal volume controls can relieve short-run imbalances in supply while not adversely affecting consumers. Merging long-run and short-run perspectives is the problem that creates difficulty in program evaluation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , December 1975 , pp. 177 - 186
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1975

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