Price Premiums for Organic Strawberries
Carroll, Christine, Diane Charlton, and Emilia Tjernström
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Abstract
Organic strawberries command a price premium averaging $0.61 per pound at the farmgate and $1.00 per pound at the retail level. Using weekly time series data for the past five years, we find that we cannot explain retail price premiums as a function of farmgate price premiums. This suggests that much of the variation in organic premiums paid by consumers is derived from changes in marketing costs rather than costs of production incurred by the farmers or changes in the supply of organic produce.
Keywords
organic and conventional price differences, retail price premiums, price premia
Citation
Carroll, Christine, Diane Charlton, and Emilia Tjernström. 2012. "Price Premiums for Organic Strawberries." ARE Update 15(6): 12-14. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics.
https://giannini.ucop.edu/filer/file/1453327762/16895/