IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/agribz/v8y1992i4p323-333.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Demand analysis of the Pacific Coast pear industry

Author

Listed:
  • Xiao-Yun Gao

    (Department of Agricultural Economics, Washington State University)

  • A. Desmond O'Rourke

    (Department of Agricultural Economics and Director, the IMPACT Center, Washington State University)

Abstract

Demand for Pacific Coast pears is analyzed by means of a simultaneous equation model which separately identifies Bartlett and winter pears in fresh and processed uses. The model is applied to annual data for the 1960-1989 period and is used to determine optimal allocations for historical periods and to forecast price effects under alternative future scenarios. Demand shifts have been favorable for fresh winter pears, but unfavorable for processed winter pears and for both fresh and processed Bartlett pears. Expected increases in production may threaten the profitability of the industry without prompt remedial action.© 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Suggested Citation

  • Xiao-Yun Gao & A. Desmond O'Rourke, 1992. "Demand analysis of the Pacific Coast pear industry," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 8(4), pages 323-333.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:agribz:v:8:y:1992:i:4:p:323-333
    DOI: 10.1002/1520-6297(199207)8:4<323::AID-AGR2720080405>3.0.CO;2-J
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. John A. Edwards, 1965. "An Analysis of Bartlett Pear Prices," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 47(5), pages 1278-1287.
    2. Pubols, Ben H., 1959. "Factors Affecting Prices of Pears," Journal of Agricultural Economics Research, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 11(1), pages 1-7, January.
    3. Price, David W. & Mittelhammer, Ronald C., 1979. "A Matrix Of Demand Elasticities For Fresh Fruit," Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 4(1), pages 1-18, July.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Winfree, Jason A. & McCluskey, Jill J. & Mittelhammer, Ronald C. & Gutman, Paula, 2004. "Seasonal Oligopoly Power In The D'Anjou Pear Industry," Journal of Food Distribution Research, Food Distribution Research Society, vol. 35(2), pages 1-10, July.
    2. Sparks, Amy L., 1994. "Pear Import Demand: Three Markets for U.S. Fresh Pears," Agricultural Economic Reports 308283, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Mittlehammer, Ron C., 1983. "Mixed Estimation: A New Perspective," 1983 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 3, West Lafayette, Indiana 279112, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    2. Catherine Durham & James Eales, 2010. "Demand elasticities for fresh fruit at the retail level," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(11), pages 1345-1354.
    3. Chien, Ming-Che & Epperson, James E., 1990. "An Analysis Of The Competitiveness Of Southeastern Fresh Vegetable Crops Using Quadratic Programming," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 22(2), pages 1-6, December.
    4. Baumes, Harry S., Jr. & Conway, Roger K., 1985. "An Econometric Model Of The U.S. Apple Market," Staff Reports 277669, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    5. Florkowski, Wojciech J. & Carew, Richard, 2011. "An Analysis of Price Determination in the Sweet Cherry Markets of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California," 2011 International Congress, August 30-September 2, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland 114352, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    6. Tozer, Peter R. & Marsh, Thomas L., 2018. "Dynamic regional model of the US apple industry: Consequences of supply or demand shocks due to pest or disease outbreaks and control," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 164(C), pages 252-263.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:agribz:v:8:y:1992:i:4:p:323-333. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1520-6297 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.