Commodity Highlights
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Other Readings
Younger Consumers Exhibit Less Demand for Fresh Vegetables (August 2009) identifies how a household's spending on fresh vegetables for at-home consumption may depend on the head of household's birth cohort, with younger consumers today exhibiting less demand for fresh vegetables than older consumers.
 2008 Farm Bill Side-By-Side (August 2008) presents a title-by-title summary of key provisions of the 2008 Act in a side-by-side comparison with previous legislation. The side-by-side includes links to related ERS publications and to analyses of previous farm acts. New features include a user's guide, an A-Z list of major provisions, and a search function.
Relaxing
Fruit and Vegetable Planting Restrictions (February 2007) finds that
market effects would likely be limited and confined to
specific regions and commodities. Eliminating these planting
restrictions for commodity program participants might
enable some producers to switch from program crops to
fruit and vegetables in such areas as California, the
upper Midwest and the coastal plain in the Southeastern
States. For the full report, see Eliminating
Fruit and Vegetable Planting Restrictions: How Would Markets
be Affected? (November 2006).
Fruit and
Vegetable Backgrounder (April 2006) describes the economic characteristics
of the U.S. fruit and vegetable industry, providing supply,
demand, and policy background for an industry that accounts
for nearly a third of U.S. crop cash receipts and a fifth
of U.S. agricultural exports. A variety of challenges
face this complex and diverse industry in both domestic
and international markets, ranging from immigration reform
and its effect on labor availability to international
competitiveness.
Regulatory
Barriers in International Horticultural Markets (January 2004) examines
the impact of multilateral trade rules on the use of sanitary
and phytosanitary measures applied to fruit and vegetable
imports. These rules have lowered many unnecessary barriers
to horticultural trade, primarily through requirements
that regulations be transparent and based on science.
French
Fries Driving Globalization of Frozen Potato Industry (October 2002) examines the growth of the frozen potato industry
and the global expansion of potato production and processing.
While traditional markets for frozen potato products such
as the United States, Europe, Canada, and Japan show signs
of maturing, potential growth markets still exist, particularly
in Asia and South America.
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