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Factors Affecting Producer Bargaining Power in Southern Fluid Milk Markets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

D. H. Carley*
Affiliation:
University of Georgia Agricultural Experiment Station, Experiment, Georgia

Extract

Dairy farmers in the South have become increasingly interested in gaining a stronger bargaining position in the market arena for the purpose of obtaining a more favorable price for their milk. They have implemented this objective by organizing cooperative associations. Cooperative bargaining relationships have been of three types (1) bargaining between seller and buyer (bilateral competition), (2) bargaining between sellers or bargaining between buyers (interfirm competition), and (3) bargaining in or through the political economy.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1969

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