The marketing margin, characterized as some function of the difference between retail and
farm price of a given farm product, is intended to measure the cost of providiing marketing …

This chapter focuses upon competitive relationships in agricultural markets. These markets
often exhibit high and increasing levels of buyer and/or seller concentration. Both food …

Food processing, distribution, and retailing activities account for the majority of retail food
and beverage costs for all major US commodity groups, and the share of costs attributable to …

The unprecedented growth in crop yields and agricultural total factor productivity over the
past 70 years owes much to a series of biological innovations embodied in seeds, beginning …

In this paper I show how Appelbaum's framework for testing price‐taking behavior in a single
industry can be formally extended to consider concentration explicitly. In so doing, I separate …

Canada's unemployment rate increased rapidly in the spring of 2020 in response to strict
public health measures. Low‐wage workers were hit particularly hard, including restaurant …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, US consumers witnessed changes in the volume and type
of meat products available at retail and food service markets. Simultaneously, widening farm …

This article provides a perspective on major innovations in research on agricultural markets
over the past century. We review research on market structure and performance, vertical …

This article separates oligopoly-power and cost-efficiency effects ofchanges in industrial
concentration and assesses their impact on output prices in 32 food-processing industries …

Concentration in the US meat packing sector has increased markedly from the 1960s to the
1990s (MacDonald et al. 1999). In 2019, the 22 largest beef packing plants, representing …