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Discusses the strategies to improve the competitiveness of agribusiness industry in the United States. Relationships between customer value and cost structure of the company; Relations of customer value to product differentiation; Relevance to managerial decisions in the food and agribusiness sector.

Presents the results of a study which used duality and the theory of superlative index numbers to obtain a theoretically consistent Effective Protection Rate (EPR) index that imposes no a priori restrictions on input-output substitution possibilities. Estimation of EPRs for European agriculture over the period 1973 to 1989; Effective protection.

Provides empirical evidence on the relationship between price protection of agricultural products and productivity growth. Use of empirical evidence from New Zealand beef and sheep industry.

Provides a methodological approach in which structural estimation of perennial acreage response is possible in the absence of detailed data on new plantings and replantings/uprootings of perennial crops. Implementation of the method in a case study of the Florida grapefruit industry.