The Marketing of Farm Products was first published in 1927. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Fourteen specialists, including Professor John D. Black of Harvard University, and Dr. Holbrook Working, economist of the Stanford University Food Research Institute cooperated in these studies under the editorship of Professor H. Bruce Price.The book is designed as a text for use in high schools and college classes in agricultural economics and is equipped with references for reading, tables, charts, maps, and an index. In addition to chapters describing the organization of the Minneapolis-St. Paul market for grain, hay, livestock, potatoes, dairy products, fruits, and vegetables, there are included discussions of the historical geographical, and theoretical aspects of the subject. It will prove a valuable reference work also for businessmen, and producers and consumers of farm products in the Twin Cities market area--a territory extending west and north into Montana and Canada, and east and south into Wisconsin and Iowa.

An updated, systems-oriented text providing students with instruction and background to basic agricultural marketing strategies. Twenty chapters are divided into three sections: marketing, market competition, and consumer markets; the marketing system; and public policy issues in marketing procurement. Each chapter includes key term lists, previews, summaries, study questions, and in most cases, resource lists. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Marketing in the economic system; Welfare goals in marketing; Economics of the marketing firm; Competitive structure of the market; Dimensions and structure of the marketing system for farm products in the United States; Performance of the marketing system: the role of marketing research; Governmental policies in marketing; Economics of transportation; Location of marketing enterprise and competitive structure; Marketing in economic development.