PREDICTING ORGANIC MARKET DEVELOPMENT WITH SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF EXISTING INDUSTRY INFORMATION

We test the likelihood of expansion for six market sectors based on the similarities between counties with and counties without organic markets. Results indicate that sales projections are overstated. Growth imbalance will continue to favor the West and North Central regions over the South and Northeast.Marketing,

PREDICTING ORGANIC MARKET DEVELOPMENT WITH SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF EXISTING INDUSTRY INFORMATION

We test the likelihood of expansion for six market sectors based on the similarities between counties with and counties without organic markets. Results indicate that sales projections are overstated. Growth imbalance will continue to favor the West and North Central regions over the South and Northeast

The Response of Agricultural Water Use to Changes in Pumping Costs

Proceedings of the 2003 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held April 23-24, 2003, at the University of Georgia.We estimate the response of agricultural water use to differences in pumping costs. Data come from Agricultural Water: Potential Use and Management Program in Georgia, supplemented by climatic and crop-specific information. The results show that pumping costs are a significant determinant of water use, although the magnitude of the effect is not huge. Some limited inferences can be made to how agricultural irrigators might react to different levels of volume-based water pricing