Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gvvz8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T06:57:26.465Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Administered Pricing by Cooperatives: Effect on Producer and Consumer Prices and Sales of Fluid Milk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

D. H. Carley*
Affiliation:
Georgia Experiment Station, Griffin, Georgia

Extract

Considerable controversy exists with regard to pricing agricultural commodities, especially when pricing departs from classical market concepts dependent on equating supply and demand. In a recent study of alternative Class I pricing systems, it was suggested that “pricing of milk and dairy products is one of the major policy issues to be resolved in the 1970s”. A different pricing system in federal milk orders was considered urgent enough that a concentrated study of pricing alternatives was pursued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1976

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

[1] Carley, D. H.Discussion: Agricultural Prices in the 1970's, How Will Value Be Established,Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 6, Number 1, pp. 3334, 1974.Google Scholar
[2] Carley, D. H.Economic Factors Affecting Milk Production Costs and Prices in Georgia,University of Georgia College of Agriculture Experiment Stations, Research Bulletin 155, April 1974.Google Scholar
[3] Christ, Paul and Schlenker, Anna. “Adjusting In-Area Sales Data for Calendar Composition,Federal Milk Order Market Statistics, AMS, U.S. Department of Agriculture, FMOS-158, February 1973, pp. 28–30 and FMOS-171, May 1974, pp. 3134.Google Scholar
[4] Dairymen, Inc. Division News, Georgia Division, July 1975.Google Scholar
[5] Forker, Olan D.Agricultural Prices in the 1970's: How Will Value Be Determined,Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 6, Number 1, pp. 2732, 1974.Google Scholar
[6] Mayer, Leo V.Experiences with Recent Price Stabilization Programs for Agriculture,Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 6, Number 1, pp. 15, 1974.Google Scholar
[7] Means, Gardiner C.Simultaneous Inflation and Unemployment: A Challenge to Theory and Policy,Challenge, September-October 1975.Google Scholar
[8] Riley, John B. and Blakley, Leo V.. “Impact of Alternative Classi Pricing Systems on Fluid Milk Prices,American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 57, pp. 6773, 1975.Google Scholar
[9] U.S. Department of Agriculture. “Milk Pricing Policy and Procedures: Part II Alternative Pricing Procedures,” Report of the Milk Pricing Advisory Committee, March 1973.Google Scholar