Transportation and Handling Costs of Selected Fresh Fruits and Vegetables in the San Francisco Bay Terminal Market Area (Classic Reprint)

Transportation and Handling Costs of Selected Fresh Fruits and Vegetables in the San Francisco Bay Terminal Market Area (Classic Reprint)
Author: Stanford Research Institute
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2018-03-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780364545720

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Excerpt from Transportation and Handling Costs of Selected Fresh Fruits and Vegetables in the San Francisco Bay Terminal Market Area This project was under the general direction of Bonnar Brown, Assistant Chairman of the Department of Business and Industrial Economics. The investigation was conducted by the following Institute staff members Thomas A. Mainwaring, Rebert 0. Shreve, Lewis W. Forman, Theodore G. Schad, and Alice D. Weiner. Statistical work was directed by Howard C. Nielson, assisted by Irving Weiss. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

How Transport Costs Affect Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Prices

How Transport Costs Affect Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Prices
Author: Richard Volpe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2014-01-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781457852190

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This report examines the ways that fuel prices are transmitted to wholesale produce prices via transportation costs. Specifically, it focuses on marketing costs for asparagus, cantaloupes, table grapes, oranges, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Results of the study indicate that transportation costs significantly increase the costs of marketing these produce items and therefore their wholesale price. The impact of fuel prices on produce prices depends on a number of factors, including the distance between wholesale markets and the source of the produce, the method of transportation, the importance and timing of imports, and commodity-specific factors such as perishability. Overall, as fuel prices rise, so do wholesale produce prices and the margins between farm and wholesale prices. Tables. This is a print on demand report.