ANTITRUST IMPLICATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY FOOD PRODUCTION AND MARKETING ISSUES

Discusses current antitrust cases and lists implications for the food industry.Industrial Organization,

ELIMINATING ROADBLOCKS TO GREATER PRODUCTIVITY: GOVERNMENT

The author outlines three steps the government should pursue in helping to improve productivity in the food industry. The three areas government could be effective are: deregulation, removing barriers and research.Productivity Analysis,

Discussion: Animal Identification Systems in North America: Achievements and Future Challenges

Although Canada has developed an effective animal identification system, and the provinces are progressing toward a system that has full traceback capabilities, the U.S. and Mexico have made little or no progress. Contemporary U.S. proposals for state initiatives will not work. In the meantime, the U.S. livestock industry will continue to lose markets for its products and has little to no basis for complaining about lost sales and the lack of open markets. Also indentified are relevant economic and political principles that both underlie animal identification systems and the failure to make positive steps forward toward establishing a North American animal identification system.animal identification (ID), zoonoses, livestock diseases, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Agribusiness, Agricultural and Food Policy, Agricultural Finance, Crop Production/Industries, Farm Management, International Relations/Trade, Livestock Production/Industries, Marketing, Productivity Analysis, F13, H41, I19,

DISCUSSION: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FACTORS INFLUENCING THE OUTCOME OF THE 1981 FARM BILL

Political Economy,

COMMERCIAL FARMERS AS 1995 FARM BILL STAKEHOLDERS

Agricultural and Food Policy,

AGRICULTURAL POLICY AT A DECISION POINT

Agricultural and Food Policy,

1995 FARM BILL

Agricultural and Food Policy,

CONTROL BY COOPERATIVES

Agribusiness,

U.S.-CANADA AGRICULTURAL POLICY HARMONIZATION: POTENTIAL POLICY CHANGES AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES

Agricultural and Food Policy,

GRANTSMANSHIP AND CONSULTING POLICY

Market forces, when viewed from the perspective of faculty salaries alone, clearly indicate that the highest and best use of a faculty member's time and expertise is no longer university employment. As a result, many productive faculty members are becoming increasingly dissatisfied, and many top domestic undergraduate students are eliminating academia as an employment alternative. This trend operates to the long-run detriment of the land grant university system. In part, these forces are a direct result of outdated and/or unimaginative administrative policies, inadequate reward systems, and the inability of the profession to demonstrate its productivity in terms that society understands and appreciates. Implications are drawn for land grant consulting and grantsmanship policy.Consulting, Grantsmanship, Grants, Outside income, Administration, Land grant, Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,