TY - JOUR
T1 - Food processors' use of contracts to purchase agricultural inputs
T2 - Evidence from a Pennsylvania survey
AU - Jaenicke, Edward C.
AU - Shields, Martin
AU - Kelsey, Timothy W.
PY - 2007/10
Y1 - 2007/10
N2 - Using data from a survey of Pennsylvania food processors, we investigate what firm-level characteristics make a processor more or less likely to buy agricultural inputs and ingredients though contracts. We find that over 20 percent of Pennsylvania processors use contracts, and over 44 percent of agricultural inputs (based on value) are purchased under contract. We also analyze the two related questions of what firm attributes, attitudes, or other factors make a firm more likely to use contracts at all, and what factors lead a processor who does contract to use them more intensively.
AB - Using data from a survey of Pennsylvania food processors, we investigate what firm-level characteristics make a processor more or less likely to buy agricultural inputs and ingredients though contracts. We find that over 20 percent of Pennsylvania processors use contracts, and over 44 percent of agricultural inputs (based on value) are purchased under contract. We also analyze the two related questions of what firm attributes, attitudes, or other factors make a firm more likely to use contracts at all, and what factors lead a processor who does contract to use them more intensively.
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U2 - 10.1017/S1068280500007048
DO - 10.1017/S1068280500007048
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:36549039021
SN - 1068-2805
VL - 36
SP - 213
EP - 229
JO - Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
JF - Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
IS - 2
ER -