The Florida Dairy Industry And Situation

Author : Ernest Evan Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book An Appraisal of and Recommendations for Increasing the Degree of Competition in Florida's Dairy Industry written by Ernest Evan Brown and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the capitalistic system is based on "competition" between producers of goods and services, and the citizens of this country endorse the free enterprise system, it is evident that the American people believe that some form of "competition" is desirable. For this reason, the Florida dairy Industry has been studied from the viewpoint of its competitive nature. Underlying the study are two basic assumptions t (1) competition is desirable and necessary for continuance of our free enterprise system and (2) the kind of competition that is most desirable in the dairy industry may be different from the kind of competition that is desirable in other industries. The objectives of the study are threefold. The first objective is to determine the kind and extent of competition which exists in Florida's dairy Industry. The second objective is to evaluate the kind of competition that prevails in terms of its effect upon the production and utilization of milk. The third objective is to suggest several courses of action that might stimulate competition in the industry. Section I includes background, purpose and scope, and methodology used in the study. Section II describes the unique characteristics of Florida's dairy Industry, characteristics of commercial producers and milk dealers, and methods used in pricing milk in central and south Florida. In Section III, the prevailing price structure in Florida and blend prices received by producers in 1952 are examined. In addition, the marketing problems of milk producers and dealers and their suggestions for solving them are discussed. The theoretical requisites of a competitive economic environment are outlined in Section IV. Section V deals with the nature and extent of competition in the nation's regulated markets, and comparisons are made to the theoretical model of competition presented in Section IV. In the Section that follows the type of competition that prevails in the milk markets of central and south Florida is evaluated. The competition that prevails in Florida is then compared with competition that prevails in markets in other states. Section VII outlines several methods of stimulating competition in the milk markets of central and south Florida. Finally, the Summary and Conclusions are presented in Section VIII.