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The Retail Price Effect of the Kentucky and Tennessee Milk Marketing Laws

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2016

W.F. Edwards  and
James F. Thompson
W.F. Edwards
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
James F. Thompson
Affiliation:
Department of Economics and Finance, Murray State University
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Abstract

Retail prices of milk in Kentucky and Tennessee are compared following the abolishment of Kentucky's Milk Marketing Law. Data and comparisons are also presented from the six adjacent states having no milk marketing law.

Keywords

milkpricesretail competitionregulation
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , December 1989 , pp. 211 - 215
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1989

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