MATRIC Research Paper Series

Interest is high in Argentina as an emerging economic power in the Americas. This paper analyzes issues pertinent to the relative advantages and disadvantages of transpor [...]

In the decade of the 1990s, China's feed sector became increasingly privatized, more feed mills opened, and the scale of operation expanded. Capacity utilization remained [...]

Interest is high in Argentina as an emerging economic power in the Americas. This paper analyzes issues pertinent to the relative advantages and disadvantages between th [...]

Branding strategies centering on the geographical origins of a product can provide a basis for differentiating commodity products. The use of such “"geographical indicat [...]

Traditional recommendations for building sustainable competitive advantages revolve around differentiating a product from the competition along attributes that are import [...]

In China, with the cost of improved technology rising, surplus labor shrinking, and demand for food quality and safety increasing, it will be just a matter of time before [...]

China's accession to the World Trade Organization, a significant event for U.S. agricultural trade, has been viewed as benefitting U.S. farmers, especially midwestern far [...]

This manuscript reports on a project to examine the feasibility of extensive radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging to determine product provenance in the meat pro [...]

Canada implemented a national cattle identification system led and developed by the industry. Initially a voluntary program beginning in July 2001, it became mandatory i [...]

Demand in the marketplace for foods with "“natural”" attributes, such as organic produce, continues to grow. Similarly, interest has developed in creating a technology [...]