The comparative financial performance of Southern Plains and US farm businesses was analyzed for the 1987-1989 period. The results showed no significant differences between the profitability ratios of the two groups of farms, except in the $40,000 to $249,999 sales class, where US farms...

Royer, Jeffrey S., & Rogers, Richard T. (Eds.). (1998). The industrialization of agriculture: Vertical coordination in the U.S. food system, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, xi 1 346 pp.

Large food manufacturers grew rapidly between 1976 and 1982, both by increasing their share of food manufacturing and by expanding into services. Diversification into new industries accounted for more than half of that growth. Much of the new diversification was directed toward related...