IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/uerser/305428.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

U.S. Hog Industry

Author

Listed:
  • Van Arsdall, Roy N.
  • Nelson, Kenneth E.

Abstract

There were 78 percent fewer hog farmers in 1978 than in 1950 but they produced about as much pork, and were located in the same regions of the country. The hog industry has moved rapidly to fewer and larger operations that draw on more capital-intensive technologies, like special housing with automated cleaning and feeding equipment. Differences are found in the characteristics and technical input/output ratios of smaller vs. larger operations, with apparent advantages for large operations in many important areas. These findings are based on a 1981 survey of hog producers.

Suggested Citation

  • Van Arsdall, Roy N. & Nelson, Kenneth E., 1984. "U.S. Hog Industry," Agricultural Economic Reports 305428, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerser:305428
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.305428
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/305428/files/aer511.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.305428?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Parham, Karen D. & Agnew, Donald B., 1982. "Improvements in Grades of Hogs Marketed," Miscellaneous Publications 330276, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

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


    Cited by:

    1. Lesser, William H., 1993. "Royalty Collection For Patented Livestock," Research Bulletins 123017, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Hayenga, Marvin & Kliebenstein, James, 1994. "Grading Systems in the Pork and Beef Industries," Re-Engineering Marketing Policies for Food and Agriculture - FAMC 1994 Conference 265983, Food and Agricultural Marketing Consortium (FAMC).
    2. Smyth, Donald Craig, 1985. "Economic impacts of the Farmer-Owned Reserve program on the U.S. corn-livestock sector," ISU General Staff Papers 1985010108000013104, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.

    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:ags:uerser:305428. 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.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with 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: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ersgvus.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.