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Value-Added Research Investments: Boon Or Boondoggle?

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Adding value to agricultural products is often seen as a means to dispose of raw commodity surpluses and to add jobs, boost incomes, and otherwise promote rural economic development. A major component of this development strategy has been federal and state investments in research intended to boost the production, marketing, and distribution of valueadded agricultural products. This symposium explored the economic rationale and implications of such research investments.

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  • Williams, Gary W., 1989. "Value-Added Research Investments: Boon Or Boondoggle?," 1989 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 2, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 270472, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
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    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.270472
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    1. John W. Siebert & Robert Jones & Thomas L. Sporleder, 1997. "The VEST model: An alternative approach to value added," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 13(6), pages 561-567.

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