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Sales Response to Generic Promotion Efforts and Some Implications of Milk Advertising on Economic Surplus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Stanley R. Thompson
Stanley R. Thompson*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University
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Extract

Each year various agricultural commodity groups spend millions of dollars advertising and promoting their respective products. Typically such “demand creating” attempts have been purported as a panacea for low producer returns despite their unevaluated performance records. Notwithstanding the magnitude of these promotional expenditures, the literature is scarce regarding the effect of advertising on commodity sales. Such knowledge would provide an invaluable input for promotion expenditure decisions and a means to evaluate the effects of advertising and promotion on economic surplus.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , October 1974 , pp. 78 - 90
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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