Selected Marketing Topics Relating to Cotton and Oilcrops
Creators: name: Commodity Economics Division, Economic Research Service
name: Commodity Economics Division, Economic Research Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: cotton
subject: distribution
subject: marketing
subject: warehouse
subject: compress
subject: storage capacity
subject: increasing cost industry
subject: textile trade
subject: knits
subject: cloth
subject: apparel
subject: textiles
subject: fibers
subject: shippers
subject: costs
subject: breakeven prices
subject: acreage response
subject: variable costs
subject: soybeans
subject: corn
subject: sorghum
subject: barley
subject: margins
subject: cotton denim
subject: marketing costs
subject: cotton textile imports
subject: import penetration
subject: domestic consumption
subject: sheeting
subject: print cloth
subject: gins
subject: investment
subject: meal and oil projections
subject: edible fats and oils refineries
subject: refining capacity
subject: fats and oils production
subject: packing capacities
subject: sunflowerseed
subject: sunflower oil
subject: USSR
subject: peanuts
subject: flaxseed
subject: costs of production
subject: margarine
subject: butter
subject: soybean oil
subject: price forecasts

description: Articles included: Distribution of an Average Bale of U. S. Cotton (Edward H. Glade, Jr. and Anne P. Alderman) --- Changes in the U. S. Cotton Storage Industry (O. A. Cleveland, Jr. and Joseph L. Ghetti) --- Knit Cloth and Apparel Trade Patterns (John V. Lawler) --- Some Recent Trends in the Domestic Marketing System for Textile Fibers and Products (Ray S. Corkern) --- Cost of Merchandising U. S. Cotton, 1974/75 Season (Whitman M. Chandler, Jr. and Edward H. Glade, Jr.) --- Competitive Relationships Between Cotton and Other Crops, by Region, 1976 and 1977 (Sam Evans) --- Market Trends and Margins for Cotton Denim (Edward H. Glade, Jr.) --- The Impact of Cotton Textile Imports on the Domestic Market (Russell G. Barlowe and John V. Lawler) --- Gin Investment Costs in the United States (O. A. Cleveland, Jr. and Joseph L. Ghetti) --- The Decade Ahead for U. S. Soybeans (Duane Hacklander) --- U. S. Edible Fats and Oils Refining Capacities, 1975 (George W. Kromer and Stanley A. Gazelle) --- Views on the 1975/76 Sunflower Seed Situation in the Soviet Union (George W. Kromer) --- Costs of Production for Soybeans, Peanuts, and Flaxseed for 1974, 1975, and 1976 (Alan S. Walter and Gail D. Garst) --- Forecasting Retail Margarine Prices (Paul D. Velde and Stanley A. Gazelle).
description: This publication is a collection of selected articles dealing with current marketing topics relating to cotton and oilcrops. The purpose of these reprints is to provide, under one cover, a readily available source of marketing information. These special articles originally appeared in various issues of the Cotton and Wool Situation and the Fats and Oils Situation which are published five and four times a year respectively by the Fibers and Oils Program Area, Commodity Economics Division. The Fibers and Oils Program Area conducts a broad range of research activities covering each segment of the production-marketing system for cotton and oilcrops in addition to providing current situation and outlook intelligence for cotton, wool, mohair, and fats and oils.