{"title":"Examining the factors of fertilizer pricing","authors":"Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn, Chad Hart","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.133","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.133","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A strong surge in fertilizer prices in 2021 led farmers and policymakers to question the factors that drive fertilizer pricing. This study examines the relationship among natural gas, corn, and fertilizer prices, finding five structural breaks from 1997 to 2022. The pass-through rates of natural gas and corn price changes to fertilizer prices show significant shifts after the passage of the biofuel mandate, with those changes fading as the market matured. Meanwhile, natural gas price changes are the main contributing factor in the latest period. However, the linkage among these prices continues to evolve and is likely to diminish over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 3","pages":"572-583"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.133","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141669553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Allison Bauman, Becca B. R. Jablonski, D. Adeline Yeh, Lauren Chenarides, Dawn Thilmany McFadden
{"title":"Federal economic data on local and regional food producers","authors":"Allison Bauman, Becca B. R. Jablonski, D. Adeline Yeh, Lauren Chenarides, Dawn Thilmany McFadden","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.131","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.131","url":null,"abstract":"<p>US local and regional food systems (LRFS) garner significant support from the federal government. Congress has directed the US Department of Agriculture to collect data on farmers and ranchers that use these markets, but challenges remain. We provide information about the three national surveys that provide farm-level data on sales through LRFS, including how questions have changed over time. We highlight the benefits and challenges of using each survey from scale/scope and producer implication perspectives and offer recommendations to improve the existing survey instruments to support enhanced economic understanding of the implications of local and regional food markets.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 3","pages":"537-555"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.131","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141703390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Similarities in the US Department of Agriculture international baseline projections","authors":"Rabail Chandio, Ani L. Katchova","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.129","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) international baseline projections are crucial for US agricultural policy. Using a dynamic time warping algorithm, we examine whether corn, soybean, and wheat baselines exhibit a lack of significant distance indicating similarity in projections across countries. We then examine whether projections for countries with more similarity with the United States projections exhibit higher projection errors. We discover evidence of projections being similar to the United States, which is associated with lower errors for corn yield, harvested area, and exports and wheat import projections, but not for other variables. These findings offer valuable insights for USDA and stakeholders.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 3","pages":"505-521"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.129","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142244837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Claudia Schmidt, Luyi Han, Arian Moghadam, Stephan J. Goetz
{"title":"Broadband access and agritourism operations in the United States","authors":"Claudia Schmidt, Luyi Han, Arian Moghadam, Stephan J. Goetz","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.128","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An online presence is crucial for agritourism operators to connect with consumers. In this study, we use count data regression models to examine the correlation between average broadband speed adopted and the number of agritourism operations. We found that adoption of fast broadband in 2012 was associated with a significantly higher number of agritourism operations nationally in 2017, underscoring the role of broadband connectivity in facilitating interactions between farmers and consumers, as well as in promoting agritourism. However, only a weak association exists in rural counties, indicating that the broadband–agritourism relationship does not extend to less populated areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 3","pages":"491-504"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.128","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142244998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Starting high or low in English auctions? The case of frozen saithe in Norway","authors":"Geir Sogn-Grundvåg, Dengjun Zhang, Frank Asche","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.123","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.123","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates the role of starting prices in sequentially ascending (English) auctions. Applying binary logit and hedonic price models on a unique data set comprising 8217 auctioned lots of frozen saithe, an important species in Norwegian fisheries, we find support for three hypotheses; that low starting prices will lead to a higher share of successful auctions, a higher number of participating bidders, and higher final prices. These results indicate that starting prices in English auctions are important for both seller revenue and auction efficiency and are important with respect to strategic behavior in auction markets for food commodities.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 3","pages":"478-490"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.123","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141360409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yaqin Liu, Ruth B. M. Pincinato, Frank Asche, Martin D. Smith, Francesco Ventura
{"title":"Economic gains from individual fishing quotas: The Norwegian coastal groundfish fisheries","authors":"Yaqin Liu, Ruth B. M. Pincinato, Frank Asche, Martin D. Smith, Francesco Ventura","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.122","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many rights-based systems in fisheries use individual fishing quotas (IFQs) that allocate shares of total allowable catch to individual fishers, vessels, or groups of fishers. We analyze the performance of IFQs in the Norwegian coastal groundfish fisheries that substantially limit transferability. We use data from two similar fishing groups that were treated with different management. Difference-in-differences results show that IFQs increase productivity and prices for some of the main groundfish species. Results suggest that expected productivity gains and price gains from first-best rights-based policies that create highly transferable IFQs can result from second-best policies that substantially limit transferability.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 3","pages":"462-477"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nearly uniform prices of fresh produce products in US retail chains and implications","authors":"Xiao Dong, Gregory Astill","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.120","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.120","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study provides evidence that retail prices of US fresh produce (fruits and vegetables) and fresh meat products are similar across stores within the same chain even though unique characteristics of fresh produce products might lend to more localization in pricing. The results show the median price difference of fresh produce is 5% within-chain stores compared to 20% between-chain stores. Furthermore, the results show no significant differences in fresh produce prices between-chain stores that serve areas of differing food access nor significant differences in chain prices between Metropolitan Statistical Areas with implications to federal nutrition programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 2","pages":"410-423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.120","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140666310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xueying Ma, Rosa Karina Gallardo, Elizabeth Canales, Amaya Atucha, Juan Zalapa, Massimo Iorizzo
{"title":"Effects of the added sugar labeling on consumers' willingness to pay: The case of cranberry products under different nutrition-related information treatments","authors":"Xueying Ma, Rosa Karina Gallardo, Elizabeth Canales, Amaya Atucha, Juan Zalapa, Massimo Iorizzo","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.121","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.121","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Food and Drug Administration announced a rule update to the Nutrition Facts Panel (NFP) requiring the declaration of added sugars on the NFP starting in 2020. This study measures the impact of these changes by estimating the willingness to pay for added sugars in cranberry products under different nutrition-related information treatments. We found significant discounts for increases in added sugars that vary across information treatments and consumer subsamples. A positive information frame about the health benefits of cranberries was not found to consistently offset the impact of additional information on the recommended daily intake limits for added sugars.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 2","pages":"424-444"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.121","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140676744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sungeun Yoon, Lisa House, Zhifeng Gao, Kelly Grogan, Conner Mullally
{"title":"Is environmental consciousness associated with organic food consumption?: A revealed preference approach","authors":"Sungeun Yoon, Lisa House, Zhifeng Gao, Kelly Grogan, Conner Mullally","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.119","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.119","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study analyzes NielsenIQ household scanner data, exploring the environmental motivation behind organic food consumption using single-use plastics spending as a proxy for environmental concern. To investigate the relationship between the two environmental behaviors, organic food and single-use plastic, the study utilizes the instrumental variable approach to account for the potential endogeneity in revealed preference data. Results show a significant negative association between single-use plastic and organic food purchases, underscoring environmental concern as one of the motives for choosing organic foods. The findings indicate that organic food marketing should emphasize environmental benefits to appeal to environmentally conscious consumers.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 2","pages":"396-409"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.119","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140673571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xueying Ma, R. Karina Gallardo, Elizabeth Canales, Massimo Iorizzo
{"title":"Quality-related descriptors to increase fresh blueberries purchase—Evidence from a basket-based choice experiment","authors":"Xueying Ma, R. Karina Gallardo, Elizabeth Canales, Massimo Iorizzo","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.118","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study addresses the need to boost fruit and vegetable consumption amidst rising diet-related health concerns. Blueberries, rich in phenolic phytochemicals, offer significant health benefits. Using a basket-based choice experiment (BBCE), the study identifies sensory descriptors that enhance blueberry purchasing likelihood. Packaging with a “Stay Fresh” label reduces price sensitivity compared to others. Additionally, blueberries are commonly purchased alongside other berries rather than as substitutes. Demographic factors such as gender, age, education, employment, fitness, ethnicity, region, nutritional value perception, and budget influence blueberry selection. These insights can aid growers, retailers, and marketers in increasing fresh blueberry demand.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 2","pages":"376-395"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.118","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141487905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}