Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-fscjk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T19:11:39.601Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Opportunities and Concerns of Food Marketing, Transportation, and Distribution: A Look into the Twenty-First Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Leo Polopolus
Leo Polopolus*
Affiliation:
Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, and American Agricultural Economics Association
Get access

Extract

The economic sector beyond the farm gate – which provides marketing, transportation, and distribution services – has become increasingly important over time relative to farm production. In 1982, the cost of marketing farm foods reached an estimated 71 percent of total consumer expenditures. As we look to the 21st century, it is quite likely that the gamut of marketing services beyond the farm gate will account for over 80 percent of consumers’ expenditures for food.

Type
Invited Papers
Information
Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , Fall 1983 , pp. 7 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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

Business Week, “The U.S. Still Leads the World in R&D Spending,” June 20, 1983, pp. 122–153.Google Scholar
Business Week, “The Slaughter of Meatpacking Wages,” June 27, 1983, pp. 70–71.Google Scholar
Hallberg, M. C., “Urban Society's Stake in Food and Agricultural Policy,” Unpublished paper before the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, January 5, 1982, Washington, DC.Google Scholar
Jarratt, Mary C., Assistant Secretary of Food and Consumer Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, June 8, 1983.Google Scholar
Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States, Agricultural Postharvest Technology and Marketing Economics Research; A Technical Memorandum, Washington, DC, April 1983.Google Scholar
Polopolus, Leo, “Agricultural Economics Beyond the Farm Gate,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 64 (1982): 803–810.Google Scholar
Ricker, Harold S., Anderson, Dale L., Phillips, Michael J., “Technology Adoption in the Agricultural Marketing System,” in Future Frontiers in Agricultural Marketing Research, edited by Farris, Paul L., Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1983.Google Scholar
Ruttan, Vernon W., “The Changing Role of Public and Private Sectors in Agricultural Research,” Science, 216 (1982): 23–29.Google Scholar