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Using USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Arrivals to Determine the Distribution of a State's Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Richard Beilock  and
Kenneth M. Portier
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Abstract

This paper examines the problem of transforming information on fresh fruit and vegetable Arrivals to U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas into a distribution of products to larger geographical regions. Three methods for the regional distribution of Florida-grown produce are compared. A new method, which takes into account regional population sizes in the allocation of an area's produce to the region, is shown to produce allocations similar to those obtained through trucker surveys. Finally, the new approach is applied to produce from other areas, and allocations to regions compared to that obtained using the Arrivals data only.

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Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , April 1989 , pp. 35 - 45
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Copyright © 1989 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

The study was funded in part by the ERS, USDA and AMS, USDA. The authors acknowledge the assistance of Larry Summers and Richard Overheim of AMS, USDA. The authors are responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. Florida Experiment Station Journal Series No. 9631.

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