IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/revage/v19y1997i1p207-218..html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A Contract on Hogs: A Decision Case

Author

Listed:
  • Scott M. Swinton
  • Laura L. Martin

Abstract

The decision case "A Contract on Hogs" describes a Michigan farm couple's decision about whether to accept a contract to finish hogs for a larger company. Having given up raising their own hogs in a free-range, pasture setting, the Bishops were offered a contract under which they would build a swine confinement building and feed out three sets of hogs a year. The contractor would provide feeder pigs, feed, and veterinary services. The case provides a vehicle for discussing production contracts, investment analysis, and local environmental and zoning issues associated with siting intensive livestock production facilities.

Suggested Citation

  • Scott M. Swinton & Laura L. Martin, 1997. "A Contract on Hogs: A Decision Case," Review of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 19(1), pages 207-218.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:revage:v:19:y:1997:i:1:p:207-218.
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2307/1349689
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Erkan Rehber, 2000. "Vertical Coordination In The Agro-Food Industry And Contract Farming: A Comparative Study Of Turkey And The Usa," Food Marketing Policy Center Research Reports 052, University of Connecticut, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Charles J. Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy.
    2. Bolotova, Yuliya V., 2022. "Price-Fixing in the U.S. Broiler Chicken and Pork Industries," Applied Economics Teaching Resources (AETR), Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 4(4), September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:revage:v:19:y:1997:i:1:p:207-218.. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press or Christopher F. Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.