Evaluating the Farmer's-Share-of-the-Retail-Dollar Statistic
Conventional wisdom appears to support the thesis that declines in USDA's farmer's share-of-the-retail-dollar (FS) statistics are indicators of low returns to agricultural production. We estimate changes in cattle and hog FS statistics and their relationship with producer surplus (PS) for...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Western Agricultural Economics Association
2009-08-01
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Series: | Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics |
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Online Access: | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/54543 |