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Determining member contributions to marketing cooperative returns when raw products are commingled before sale

Creator:

Stokstad, Grete Synnøve

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Marketing cooperatives that operate on a pool basis allocate net returns on the basis of the "economic value" of the raw products each member has delivered. Economic values ideally reflect the raw products' expected contributions to pool net return. In a competitive market, raw product prices would reflect these expected...

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Masters Thesis

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Cooperative Returns When Raw Products are Commingled Before Sale by Grete SynnØve Stokstad A THESIS
Cost function analysis of fruit and vegetable processing in an Oregon cooperative

Creator:

Sil, Jayashree

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A cost function characterizes a firm's cost-minimizing behavior. It is defined as a function of the level of outputs produced and the prices of factors which enter the production process. Econometric estimation of a cost function allows one to test hypotheses regarding the structure of cost and the structure of...

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Masters Thesis

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consumers and hence may affect price and payments to members (Stokstad 1989, p. 51). Over the fiscal (FY