{"title":"Rural Product Promotion: Economic Aspects Of Promotability, Organization And Public Assistance","authors":"A. D. Boer","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.9212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.9212","url":null,"abstract":"The economic theory of product promotion has been developed within the framework of the theory of imperfect competition and under rather restrictive conditions. Application of these theories to rural product promotion is, in most cases, of limited value. This paper first examines some characteristics of agricultural product markets which necessitate modification of standard promotion theory. Some further complex issues in promotion theory as it relates to agricultural products are then examined. These include the stabilization of funds fOl financing promotion expenditures, promotion strategy under price discrimination schemes characteristic of several Australian primary product markets, the welfare consequences of promotion by primary producer promotion cartels, possible terms of trade effects of overseas promotion expenditures, and subsidies for rural product promotion as a form of tariff compensating income transfers. The paper concludes with a discussion of the cases for public intervention in rural product promotion.","PeriodicalId":146173,"journal":{"name":"Review of marketing and agricultural economics","volume":"42 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120812254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Economics of Agricultural Marketing: A Survey","authors":"H. Breimyer","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.9646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.9646","url":null,"abstract":"Three distinctive schools present diverse interpretations of agricultural marketing. One of these derives from the economics of the farm business and casts marketing as all that happens to products past the farm. A second centres on marketing's co-ordinative role. A third is in allegiance to market development. Contemporary problems, beginning with those of the 1920 price reductions in the United States and accentuated by the worldwide depression of the 1930's, primarily explain the periods of heightened interest in marketing. In the early 1970's the common thread is institutional change in marketing, which originates in events as diverse as declining importance of assembly markets for price discovery, and the redesign of marketing within trading blocs such as the European Common Market.","PeriodicalId":146173,"journal":{"name":"Review of marketing and agricultural economics","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1973-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127969735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Declining Wool Prices, Wheat Quotas and Debt Reconstruction on the Financial Viability of Australian Farmers","authors":"B. Davidson","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.9671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.9671","url":null,"abstract":"An examination of the decline in net farm income between 1966-67 and 1969-70 indicates that in the three major zones the following size groups will be non-viable (l) In the High Rainfall Zone, farms with less than 2,000 and more than 10,000 sheep, comprising 85 per cent of farms in the Zone. (2) In the Wheat Sheep Zone, farms with less than 1,000 sheep, comprising 56 per cent of farms. (3) In the Pastoral Zone, farms with less than 20,000 sheep, comprising 98 per cent of farms. This situation could be alleviated to some extent by extending the period of debt repayment from the present average period of 7 years to a period of 20 to 30 years.","PeriodicalId":146173,"journal":{"name":"Review of marketing and agricultural economics","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123877522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comparison of Response Surface and Factorial Designs in Agricultural Research","authors":"Robert J. Williams, J. R. Baker","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.9206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.9206","url":null,"abstract":"The use of response surface designs in preference to factorial designs in agriculture has become widely discussed and recommended. This paper simulates data for comparable response surface and factorial designs and uses this to demonstrate the similarities between the designs and their analyses and at the same time to point out some of the customary differences in their analyses. More particularly, it aims to show: (a) that for any design a reduction in the number of plots sown reduces the reliability of the results, and (b) that both a response surface design and a factorial design allow the calculation of estimated equations of response surfaces.","PeriodicalId":146173,"journal":{"name":"Review of marketing and agricultural economics","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1968-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129398960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adjustment Possibilities and Marginality in the \"Big Scrub\"","authors":"W. Musgrave, J. Bird","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.9124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.9124","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":146173,"journal":{"name":"Review of marketing and agricultural economics","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1966-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121948697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theoretical Aspects of a Dynamic Programming Model for Studying the Allocation of Land to Pasture Improvement","authors":"C. Throsby","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.9052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.9052","url":null,"abstract":"The study on which this article is based is hoped to be the first of a series investigating the use of dynamic programming in agricultural allocation decisions. The model presented in this article was constructed in simple form to study once-over sequences of allocation of land to some activity of long-run benefit. The activity chosen was pasture improvement, but as will be seen later the section of the model which describes pasture improvement could be altered to make the model specific to some other relevant activity if desired. The presentation of this article is as follows: First the nature of dynamic programming as an analytical tool is explained. Then the dynamic programming relationships in the model are constructed and a simple numerical example is given to illustrate the computational procedure. The second part of the model, which derives the pasture improvement return functions, is then shown. Some general computational problems are discussed, following which the properties of both parts of the model are investigated in some detail.","PeriodicalId":146173,"journal":{"name":"Review of marketing and agricultural economics","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1964-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129527114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Path Planning and Scheduling: An Introduction and Example","authors":"R. Cooke-Yarborough","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.8803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.8803","url":null,"abstract":"Critical Path Planning and Scheduling is a labour management aid considerably in advance of those previously available. First devised for the U.S. Navy in 1958, it divides project programming into two phases planning, and scheduling. In the planning phase a graphic representation of all activity relations is obtained by constructing an arrow network diagram. In the scheduling phase, duration times are assigned to activities and the three floats (spare time) available to each are computed. This allows the determination of the critical path of the project. Variable activity duration times and associated costs can also be handled. The techniques of Critical Path Planning and Scheduling are described in Section 3. The discussion, however, is confined to project timing, and cost scheduling is left over to an appendix. This does not detract from the argument but makes it easier to prepare for a practical example of how CPPS may be applied in farming. The planning and scheduling of some eleven activities required to describe the land preparation and sowing of 250 acres of wheat reveals that, with the assumed precedential ordering, there is spare time available when ordering the seed; and some delays completing the first scarifying and harrowing do not prevent the entire operation being completed in 42 man-days. With a five and half day working week, it therefore takes between seven and eight weeks to complete the planting. This means that to sow no later than the first week in July, the plough must be put into the ground before the second week in May. The conclusion is that CPPS could have some use in farm management. Its significance, however, may be less than that of other O-R techniques and its application will be heavily dependent on the gathering of more labour requirements.","PeriodicalId":146173,"journal":{"name":"Review of marketing and agricultural economics","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1964-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134533353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Demand for Bananas in the Sydney Wholesale Market","authors":"J. V. D. Meulen","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.8993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.8993","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":146173,"journal":{"name":"Review of marketing and agricultural economics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1958-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125733421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extension Services and the Grazier on the South-West Slope","authors":"R. Parish","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.9056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.9056","url":null,"abstract":"In this article information is presented regarding the extent to which graziers in a portion of the South West Slope have availed themselves of the extension services offered by the Department of Agriculture. Some analysis is also made of the characteristics of those who have had most, and of those who have had least, contact with the extension services. The material on which the article is based was collected, late in 1954 and early in 1955, from a random sample of IS0 graziers residing in the shires of Gundagai, Tumut, Tumbarumba, Holbrook and Kyeamba. A full description of the survey area and the sampling method, has already been published in this Review.'","PeriodicalId":146173,"journal":{"name":"Review of marketing and agricultural economics","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1956-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133886053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dairy Farming on the Red Basaltic Soils of the Richmond-Tweed Region","authors":"W. Owen","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.8745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.8745","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":146173,"journal":{"name":"Review of marketing and agricultural economics","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1954-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131900816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}