9 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription., Researchers used unique data collected from consumers, vendors, and markets in a rural region of New York State to develop an empirical model of subjective and objective measures of vendor performance to identify important factors for improved market sustainability. Results suggested four inter-related planning recommendations when considering market and public policyinterventions.
Ellis, Stu (author) and University of Illinois Extension.
Format:
News release
Publication Date:
2007-07-26
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26275
Notes:
Via "Farm Gate" web site. 1 page., Researchers find "the impacts of advertising and food safety effects to be economically small compared with price and expenditure effects." Also, the economists "believe that generic pork advertising appears to help demand for poultry more than pork."
Graduate student, University of Wisconsin, studied whether direct mail announcement of publications is an effective way of getting "new customers" for extension work. Results suggested that 10-15 percent of Wisconsin farmers respond to direct mail announcements of extension publications. Of those who answered, 45 percent had never seen or used extension publications before receiving a direct mail announcement.
