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Market Prices --Supply, Demand, Consumption, 

 and Other Market Forces 



Alaska Technological Improvements to Increase the Quality and 

 Consumption of Alaskan Potatoes , To learn (1) why Alaska 

 consumers prefer stateside-grown potatoes and evaluate 

 economic implications of commercial adaptation of techno- 

 logical changes by growers and handlers; (2) by chemical 

 analysis and organoleptic tests if Alaskan potatoes differ 

 from stateside potatoes; and (3) if Alaskan potatoes are as 

 acceptable as stateside ones when grown under varied soil 

 and fertilizer conditions, stored and handled in a manner 

 comparable to stateside* 



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Calif. The Behavior of Prices and Margins at the Various Stages 

 (Berkeley) of Marketing Fresh Fruits and Vegetables * To (1) develop 



efficient operating and research procedure to collect appro- 

 priate data and analyze it to determine, measure, and explain 

 the temporal behavior of prices and marketing margins at 

 several stages of distribution and of factors associated with 

 such behavior; (2) determine/ and analyze statistically the 

 interrelationships between /Changes in wholesale prices and 

 changes in retail prices, with consideration to lead and lag 

 tendencies as well as sluggishness and responsiveness of 

 retail price changes to wholesale price changes; (3) determine 

 and analyze statistically the behavior of and relations 

 between marketing margins and their relation to sales prices 

 at the successive points in distribution supply pipeline 

 between producer and consumer; (U) determine and analyze 

 statistically the net functional relations between changes 

 in retail prices and changes in quantities sold at retail; 

 and (5) determine and analyze statistically temporal daily 

 distribution within retail selling period of a week of the 

 daily volume sold as a percent of the week's total, so as 

 to yield information useful in timing and temporal distri- 

 bution of sales by distributors and purchases by retailers. 

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