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Water-Rail Rate Competition and the Competitive Position of the Northeastern Poultry Industry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2017
Abstract
Differential grain transportation rates between the Northeast and South have been identified as a possible source of comparative disadvantage for Northeastern broiler producers. Low cost barge transportation into the South provides competition for railroads resulting in generally low transportation rates in the South. Barge transportation is low cost in part because the Federal improvements of waterways have resulted in a toll-free waterway system. Solutions for a transportation model were found with and without the subsidy. The results indicate that subsidy removal is unlikely to affect interregional broiler production and consumption.
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- Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , April 1978 , pp. 13 - 17
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- Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association
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