Acknowledgement
The author would like to thank Andrew Franklin for computational assistance, John Mott for library assistance, and
Karen Nye for typing. Support from the USDA CSREES Special Research Grant No. 98-34178-5932 at the University of
Connecticut is gratefully acknowledged.
Affiliation
Ronald W. Cotterill is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Director of the Food Marketing Policy
Center, University of Connecticut.
Preface
This paper is dedicated to the memory of John Helmuth, an agricultural economist who understood these issues and
worked so that others, especially the U.S. Congress and farmers, could appreciate their importance for public policy. As a
commissioned paper, it was presented at the USDA conference "The American Consumer and the Changing Structure of the
Food System," Washington, D.C. May3-5, 2000
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