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Demand for Private Marketing Expertise by Organic Farmers: A Quantile Analysis Based on Counts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2015

Luanne Lohr  and
Timothy Park
Luanne Lohr
Affiliation:
Market and Trade Economics Division, Economic Research Service, USDA, Washington, D.C
Timothy Park
Affiliation:
Rural and Resource Economics Division, Economic Research Service, USDA, Washington, D.C
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Abstract

We study the demand by organic farmers for technical advice using a quantile regression for the demand of organic farmers for consultations with private information providers. There is substantial heterogeneity in the impact of critical explanatory variables on consultations of organic farmer. Larger farm size has a positive effect on contacts, but the effect is absent for the highest number of consultations. Internet use has a positive marginal effect on visits to private information providers across each quantile, suggesting that expanded efforts to deliver programs through web-based resources are a useful investment for information providers.

Keywords

organic farmingtechnical assistancequantile regression modelcount datainternet accessC25Q12Q13Q16
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , May 2012 , pp. 157 - 171
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2012

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