EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

Roles of Farm Productivity and Marketing Margins in Postwar Decline in Farm Prices

Robert E. Freeman

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1966, vol. 48, issue 1, 31-41

Abstract: Cross-commodity data rather than time-series data were used to determine the incidence of increased marketing margins. Changes in the farm prices of the several food groups were found to be negatively associated with changes in output per man-hour, the best available indicator of changes in cost of production. On the other hand, changes in marketing margins were not meaningfully related to farm price changes. For the same food groups, the market-basket data on farm and retail prices, plus the USDA indices of changes in farm output, provided a framework for showing the extent of the shifts in retail demand, farm demand, and farm supply functions. The indicated shifts in the farm supply curves were generally consistent with the productivity effects previously noted.

Date: 1966
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.2307/1236177 (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:48:y:1966:i:1:p:31-41.

Access Statistics for this article

American Journal of Agricultural Economics is currently edited by Madhu Khanna, Brian E. Roe, James Vercammen and JunJie Wu

More articles in American Journal of Agricultural Economics from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Oxford University Press ().

 
Page updated 2025-03-19
Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:48:y:1966:i:1:p:31-41.