Cotton producers’ choice of marketing techniques

Agribusiness

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 465-479

  Vergara, Oscar ^a   Coble, Keith H ^b   Knight, Thomas O ^c   Patrick, George F ^d   Baquet, Alan E ^e  

^a AIR Worldwide Corporation   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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EID: 33749377283     PISSN: 07424477     EISSN: 15206297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/agr.20023     Document Type: Article

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