Edward V. Jesse

University of Wisconsin–Madison | UW · Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics

U.S. dairy exports recovering from depressed 2009.

Examines dairy exports from the United States from the previous fiscal year.

In 2007, U.S. diary exports rose 300 per cent from 2006. This paper discusses the international market factors that led to this large increase and then projects exports for 2008 based on these changing factors. The paper also discusses trade agreements both in effect and proposed and how these agreements may affect the exportation of dairy products...

World Prices for Dairy Products Reach Unprecedented Highs from Short Supply and Strong Demand

U.S. Presence In World Dairy Markets Expanding Rapidly In 2007

Hot World Market For Milk Proteins Good News For U.S. Dairy Sector

U.S. diary exports rose from 2005 to 2006, lessening the deficit between dairy imports and exports. This paper discusses the products that contributed most to the increase in exportation, and anticipates further gains in 2007. The paper goes on to discuss the WTO trade agreement stall and the problems that will be faced when President Bush’s fast-t...

In this fourth Babcock Institute country study, Ireland's dairy industry was selected because (a) it reveals advantages and challenges associated with a pasture-based production system that is unique in the EU, (b) the country's dairy industry provides an excellent case study of the effects of milk production quotas, (c) the country's dairy sector...

In the third in depth country study, the Babcock Institute study team discusses India’s dairy sector. India is an interesting case study because it has the world’s second largest population making it the world’s largest milk-producing country. The country’s main system of dairy productions involves a smallholder production syste...

2006 U.S. Dairy Exports on Pace to Break Last Year’s Record

Major Foreign Markets for U.S. Dairy Products--Spotlight on Canada

Major Foreign Markets for U.S. Dairy Products--Spotlight on Japan

Major Foreign Markets for U.S. Dairy Products--Southeast Asia

Major Foreign Markets for U.S. Dairy Products--Spotlight on Mexico

The USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) publishes an annual estimate of agricultural exports by state. This Babcock Institute update focuses on Wisconsin dairy exports from ERS's latest report covering FY2004.

U.S. Dairy Exports are Setting a Blistering Pace in 2005

2004 U.S. Dairy Exports Up, Dairy Trade Gap Narrows

Review of the dairy trade situation in 2004 and speculation on dairy trade issues in 2005. Includes U.S. dairy trade statistics for 2004 by product and commodity and a summary of current and pending international trade negotiations.

In the second edition of the Babcock series of in depth analysis of the dairy industry of one country, Poland was selected because it is the largest dairy producer of the ten countries admitted into the European Union in 2004. The dairy industry in Poland has been restructuring since the 1990s and the breakup of the Soviet Union. This study include...

New Zealand and Australia comprise the largest dairy exporting block in world markets and the dairy industries of both countries have geared up in recent years to expand production of dairy products. The report synthesizes observations and insights from a site visit by the authors in February 2004 that involved extensive interviews with dairy indus...

This paper provides a background for for discussions about liberalizing international trade in dairy products under the current World Trade Organization (WTO) round of negotiations. About half of global 2002 dairy exports originated from New Zealand and Australia. These countries, which account for only a small share of world milk production and do...

Imported milk protein has, once again, become a hot button in the U.S. dairy industry. The current controversy concerns Milk Protein Concentrate (MPC). Imports of MPC, a relatively new form of concentrated dairy-based protein, increased rapidly in the late 1990s, leading to charges that dairy farmers were being economically penalized. Bills were in...

In 2000, rapidly-falling grower prices for cranberries led the cranberry industry to seriously consider invoking its federal marketing order for the first time since the early 1970s. The Cranberry Marketing Order permits volume control through producer allotments (grower delivery quotas) or handler withholding (processor set-asides). Possible deplo...

The paper considers an industry transforming primary commodities (farm products) into processed commodities (food products). It focuses on the allocation of embedded characteristics (carbohydrate, protein, etc.) both across space and among commodities. The approach generates a spatial competitive market equilibrium of production, consumption, trans...

The paper considers an industry transforming primary commodities (farm products) into processed commodities (food products). It focuses on the allocation of embedded characteristics (carbohydrate, protein, etc.) both across space and among commodities. The approach generates a spatial competitive market equilibrium of production, consumption, trans...

A regional model of U.S. milk supply response is specified and estimated. The results suggest that, while being very inelastic in the short run, milk supply tends to be elastic in the longer-run. Also, the effects of milk price or feed price on milk production are found to vary across regions. This indicates that dairy pricing policy and feed grain...

Based upon legislative intent, court holdings, and economic theory, undue price enhancement is associated with the exercise of market power. Consequently, a necessary condition for an agricultural marketing cooperative to be in violation of Section 2 is the ability to prevent members from overproducing if market power is exercised. Investigations o...

A major portion of the quoted base price variation of green pea and sweet corn contracts used by Wisconsin vegetable processors in 1968 is shown to be associated with variation in other provisions of the contracts. A net price for contracts is derived by adjusting quoted base prices for the effects of nonprice provisions. The adjustment process inv...