20 pages., Via online., Historical analysis of butter sculpture within the context of food as art, and as a way to promote butter as the natural, healthy alternative to oleomargarine.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: D07651
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Paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, July 31-August 2, 2016., Analysis shows that incumbent firms in four food industries tend to price higher and advertise less to deter entry when potential entrants are more competitive in terms of potential market share. Industries in which incumbents adopt lower prices and higher advertising signal that there is great potential for profit and, therefore, entrants with moderate competitiveness are also able to enter the market.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: D08673
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Via AgriMarketing Weekly. 1 page., Involves an advertising campaign against recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST), a supplement used to increase milk production.
Advertising effects were positive and stastically significant. The response to advertising was much more pronounced for reduced-fat milk types than it was for whole milk.
