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We study business organization and coordination of specialty-market hog production using a comparative analysis of two Iowa firms marketing niche pork. We analyze each firm's management of five key organizational challenges: planning and logistics, quality assurance, process verification and...

We study business organization and coordination of specialty-market hog production using a comparative analysis of two Iowa firms marketing niche pork. We analyze each firm's management of five key organizational challenges: planning and logistics, quality assurance, process verification and...

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Predicting Animals in Feedlot That Produce Discounted Carcasses.

Valuing Double Vaccination in Feeder Cattle

Iowa leads the nation in egg production, producing more than the second and third largest states combined. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that approximately 52.9 million layers in Iowa produced 14.5 billion eggs in 2011. This level of production consumes 49.2 million...

Sorting Cattle with Accumulated Data: What is the Accuracy and Economics?

This research extends Preston and Elam's earlier work by using meta-analysis to combine information from over 170 research trials evaluating pharmaceutical technologies in the cow-calf, stocker and feedlot segments of beef production. These results were used to estimate the economic value of...