Interregional competition in the frozen strawberry industry

Dennis, Carleton C.; Sammet, L. L.

doi:10.3733/hilg.v31n15p499

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“…for example, derive optimum geographic flows for the dairy and broiler meat sectors of the economy respectively. Similar studies have been carried out by Judge,(I3) Dennis and Sammet (14) and Hutchins and Davis('") on eggs, strawberries and frozen peas respectively.…”

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The Location of Maincrop Potato Production in Britatn‐an Application of Linear Programming

Shaw¹

1970

J Agricultural Economics

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hi any dynamic economy the allocation of resources, particularly land, is in need of continual reappraisal in order to reduce their inisallocation. For some years now linear programming and similar operational research techniques have been applied to solving problems of this nature within the agricultural economy. In this paper interregional competition within the potato industry is analysed using the framework of the transportation algorithm. Problems of specification and data compilation are discussed. Three models are then formulated, their solutions illustrated, and comparisons made with the present distribution of production in order to arrive at conclusions as to possible areas of adjustment. FinaUy, some of the strengths and weaknesses of the methodology used are outlitled.

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The Location of Maincrop Potato Production in Britatn‐an Application of Linear Programming

Shaw¹

1970

J Agricultural Economics

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“…In addition, some important determinants of prices come from outside the industry, both from the supermarket chains to which the crop is preferentially sold and from competition with other producing areas. Although California dominates fresh sales, low-priced imports of frozen strawberries from Mexico have seriously depressed processed sales on and off since the late 1950s (Dennis and Sammet 1961;Feder 1977). Since the strawberry product is, with the exception of the fresh/frozen dichotomy, basically homogeneous, growers are limited in their ability to increase market prices through product differentiation.…”

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Social Conflict, Commodity Constraints, and Labor Market Structure in Agriculture

Wells

1981

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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Although only a minority of harvest workers in California are covered by union contracts, jobs in some nonunionized industries are becoming increasingly stabilized and internally stratified in ways and to extents that are largely unnoted. These conditions result from an augmentation of the labor market structure (Fisher 1953), that is, from policies evolving within agricultural industries that partially insulate their job markets from external market forces.

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“…A second approach has been to de-velop cost of production data by region and proceed to minimize the combined transportation and production costs in meeting regional demand. This ap proach was used by Henderson (1958) in an analysis of the efficiency of the coal industry; by Snodgrass and French (1958) in a study of the dairy industry; and by Dennis and Sammet (1961) in one model employed in an analysis of the strawberry industry. It is generally assumed that the costs of labor and other inputs do not vary with the level of regional production.…”

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Regional location of cattle feeding — A spatial equilibrium analysis

King¹,

Schrader²

1963

Hilg

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This study focuses on factors affecting the regional location of cattle feeding. Briefly stated, these factors include the regional de mand for beef, transfer costs for carcass beef and for the interme diate products of feeds and feeder cattle, feed conversion efficiency by region, and regional supplies of the intermediate products of concentrate feed, hay, and feeder cattle. The study is a partial equilibrium approach to the location of feedlots, taking as given the location of production of other livestock products. A competitive equilibrium model was developed for analyzing the location of cattle feeding for a 20-region breakdown of the United States for the 1957-58 feeding year. A linear programming technique was utilized to quantify the model. The solution gen erated provides the spatial distribution of cattle feeding by region, the pattern of interregional shipments of intermediate products and of carcass beef, a set of equilibrium prices for beef, and im puted prices for intermediate products by region. Four models were quantified to test alternative model specifica tions as to feedlot nonfeed costs, regional feed conversion efficiency, and regional demand for beef. Results indicate no simple rules for location of cattle feeding, but rather stress the importance of con sidering the interrelationships among the major variables such as the regional demand for beef, regional intermediate product sup ply, regional feed conversion efficiency, and transfer costs for the intermediate products and for carcass beef.

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Interregional competition in the frozen strawberry industry

Abstract: Transportation rates computed on the basis of uniform increase in rate as distance increases.t Region 1 did not produce a significant quantity of frozen berries in 1955, and so is omitted. Mexican imports are added, leaving a total of 10 regions.

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

The Location of Maincrop Potato Production in Britatn‐an Application of Linear Programming

The Location of Maincrop Potato Production in Britatn‐an Application of Linear Programming

Social Conflict, Commodity Constraints, and Labor Market Structure in Agriculture

Regional location of cattle feeding — A spatial equilibrium analysis

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