David W. Bullock, William W. Wilson, Ryan Thompson
{"title":"Nongrade quality factor influence on origin soybean basis: Evidence from North Dakota","authors":"David W. Bullock, William W. Wilson, Ryan Thompson","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.110","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent evidence indicates that end-users of US soybeans are placing additional quality specifications in their contracts that are outside those covered by the official USDA grades and standards (such as protein and essential amino acid [EAA] content). This has led some industry groups to publish additional quality data on an annual basis. Using a 14-year panel data set from North Dakota, this study examines whether the release of quality data has an impact on the basis for soybeans at origins. The regression results strongly support the hypothesis that the additional EAA data had a statistically significant impact upon origin basis.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"228-241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.110","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140135351","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}
Md Deluair Hossen, Andrew Muhammad, Bart Kenner, James Kaufman
{"title":"Unraveling the impacts of freight rates on US containerized agricultural trade","authors":"Md Deluair Hossen, Andrew Muhammad, Bart Kenner, James Kaufman","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.105","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.105","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examined how the unprecedented rise in freight rates in 2021 affected US containerized agricultural trade. We considered alternative measures of trade (value, volume, container numbers), as well as product, port, and partner-country characteristics, and conducted separate analyses for exports and imports. Overall, we find that shipping costs have a substantial trade-reducing effect. On average, 10% higher shipping costs reduce US agricultural export values by 0.58% and import values by 1.72%. For exports, we find a significant negative impact for several product categories. Our results suggest that policies addressing port congestion and shipping rate issues will have heterogenous outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"199-211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139804216","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":"Effects of flood-induced financial stress on the viability of a cooperative production system and its farmers: A multilevel study","authors":"David Nortes Martínez, Frédéric Grelot, Pauline Brémond, Stefano Farolfi, Juliette Rouchier","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.106","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.106","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Floods can severely disrupt agricultural activities. When these activities are part of production chains, domino effects can occur. We use agent-based modeling to simulate the production dynamics of a French cooperative winery as an example of a production chain, adopting a dual individual-collective perspective. The cash-flow analysis shows that there are nonexplicit mechanisms in the cooperative organization that allow the propagation of flood impacts throughout the chain and influence the winegrowers' ability to cope, thus threatening the continuity of the winegrowers' activity and the cooperative winery itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"183-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.106","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139803538","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}
Md Deluair Hossen, Andrew Muhammad, Bart Kenner, James Kaufman
{"title":"Unraveling the impacts of freight rates on US containerized agricultural trade","authors":"Md Deluair Hossen, Andrew Muhammad, Bart Kenner, James Kaufman","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.105","url":null,"abstract":"We examined how the unprecedented rise in freight rates in 2021 affected US containerized agricultural trade. We considered alternative measures of trade (value, volume, container numbers), as well as product, port, and partner‐country characteristics, and conducted separate analyses for exports and imports. Overall, we find that shipping costs have a substantial trade‐reducing effect. On average, 10% higher shipping costs reduce US agricultural export values by 0.58% and import values by 1.72%. For exports, we find a significant negative impact for several product categories. Our results suggest that policies addressing port congestion and shipping rate issues will have heterogenous outcomes.","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"17 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139864079","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}
David Nortes Martínez, F. Grelot, Pauline Brémond, Stefano Farolfi, Juliette Rouchier
{"title":"Effects of flood‐induced financial stress on the viability of a cooperative production system and its farmers: A multilevel study","authors":"David Nortes Martínez, F. Grelot, Pauline Brémond, Stefano Farolfi, Juliette Rouchier","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.106","url":null,"abstract":"Floods can severely disrupt agricultural activities. When these activities are part of production chains, domino effects can occur. We use agent‐based modeling to simulate the production dynamics of a French cooperative winery as an example of a production chain, adopting a dual individual‐collective perspective. The cash‐flow analysis shows that there are nonexplicit mechanisms in the cooperative organization that allow the propagation of flood impacts throughout the chain and influence the winegrowers' ability to cope, thus threatening the continuity of the winegrowers' activity and the cooperative winery itself.","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"15 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139863521","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}
Sachintha S. Mendis, Alessandro Bonanno, Clare Cho
{"title":"Farm to school programming spillovers and households' fruits and vegetables purchases","authors":"Sachintha S. Mendis, Alessandro Bonanno, Clare Cho","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.95","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.95","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The number of US school food authority's (SFA) implementing Farm to School Programming (FTSP) is growing. Little is known about potential spillover effects of school children's exposure to FTSP on household food purchases. We measure the relationship between school age children's exposure to FTSP and household-level Food-At-Home fruits and vegetables (FV) expenditures and expenditure shares. Combining Farm to School Census data on SFAs' FTSP participation with household-level scanner data, we estimate positive relationships between FV expenditures and different measures of children's exposure to FTSPs, especially for metro households. However, the magnitude of these relationships is likely too small to be meaningful.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"41-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.95","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139593870","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":"Off-farm employment and body mass index among agrarian women in sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Francis Tsiboe, Paul Aseete, Fang Di","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.103","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.103","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The relationship between employment and women's weight outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is less studied. In this study, we use nearest-neighbor matching to analyze the association between off-farm employment and women's body mass index (BMI), using data from 364,426 adult women from 36 SSA countries. We find that employment off-farm is associated with improvement in women's weight status. Off-farm employment is associated with higher BMI in women (by 1.6%), and lower BMI among obese and overweight women (by 28% and 16%, respectively). These findings provide information that could guide policymakers working at the intersection of women's health and employment.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"152-166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139527125","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":"An economic analysis of the “Buy Local” trend","authors":"Susweta Ray, Konstantinos Giannakas","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.101","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.101","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study develops a novel framework of heterogeneous consumers and producers to analyze the market and welfare impacts of the “Buy Local” trend. Analytical results show that the trend's impacts depend on the size and type of the locality; that is, whether the locality is an exporter or an importer of the relevant products. For instance, while the trend benefits both consumers and producers of large localities, it leaves producers of small exporting localities unaffected. The presence of the trend in large localities affects also outside consumers and producers with the welfare impact depending on the type of locality.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"117-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.101","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139617569","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":"Effects of informational nudges on preordered food choices of middle school National School Lunch Program participants","authors":"Jaclyn D. Kropp, Sonam Gupta","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.104","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.104","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine the effects of own order history, peer order history, and MyPlate nudges received by middle-school National School Lunch Program (NSLP) participants while preordering on the selection of fruits and vegetables. Students receiving own order history nudges were significantly less likely to select a vegetable during the postintervention phase. Students who received peer order history nudges were significantly less likely to select a vegetable during the nudging and postintervention phases, suggesting that receiving information on peer selection negatively impacted the selection of vegetables. The MyPlate recommendations nudge may mitigate the negative effects of receiving peer selection information.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"167-182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.104","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139621722","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}
Mario A. Ortez, Tor N. Tolhurst, Nathanael M. Thompson, Nicole Olynk Widmar
{"title":"Not all beef-cut price shocks are alike: Disentangling supply and demand shocks in the US beef market","authors":"Mario A. Ortez, Tor N. Tolhurst, Nathanael M. Thompson, Nicole Olynk Widmar","doi":"10.1002/jaa2.94","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaa2.94","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine the causal effects of supply and demand shocks on the relative prices of beef cuts in the United States using a Structural Vector Autoregression model to disentangle the shocks. Supply and demand shocks have distinct, dynamic effects on relative prices, of roughly equal magnitude. Responses to supply shocks are less flat than implied by biological constraints, implying market constraints are binding. Responses to demand shocks are more stable, but interestingly “invert” about 9 months after the shock. Our findings are consistent with heterogeneous demand functions and fixed proportions of supply across cuts, as well as lifecycle constraints on livestock production.</p>","PeriodicalId":93789,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"25-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaa2.94","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139163715","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}