2005 Research Areas 

	Government Policy and Linkages For example, marketing orders and check-off funded programs, commodity support programs, regulatory effects, and labeling requirements such as food origin, food safety, nutrition.
	Economic Impacts of Value-Added Processing Market analysis, price effects, analysis of impacts from alternative ownership structures of value added processing. For example, the impacts of ethanol plants on corn, wine-making on grapes and tomato paste manufacture on tomatoes. Research includes issues such as feedstock prices, production of by-products and demand for transportation.
	Product Differentiation, Attribute Marketing and Traceability Strategies for creating, maintaining and enhancing credibility in the marketplace, including attribute marketing, traceability for food safety and origin, regional foods, trademark laws and geographical indicators. Analyses of (1) contract designs for processors to procure desired traits in farm output, (2) gains and losses caused by movement away from a commodity marketing system, and (3) supply chain for enhancing marketing of differentiated products.
	Producer Alliances and Governance Lessons from family-owned businesses, cooperatives and other farmer-owned enterprises.

Other Research Areas

• Biotechnology
• Consumer Demand
• Effects of Exotic Pests and Diseases and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures on Marketing of Agricultural Products
• Health and Nutrition
• International Trade - Includes summaries of import and export data, analysis of trade policies and effects, and links to information on economics of agriculture in potential competitor and customer countries.
• Marketing Concentration and Grower Retailer Relationships

Links to Database Sources - Production, price, income, costs, consumption, trade

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