A 2007 survey of US pork producers indicated that nearly two-thirds of US hogs are produced by less than 200 firms … marketing 50,000 or more hogs per year. We estimate that 27 operations marketing at least 500,000 hogs a year sold 43% of US … hogs in 2006. The next 164 operations marketing between 50 and 500 thousand hogs a year sold 21% of US hogs. Another 21 …

Both conventional wisdom and leading academic research view pork barrel spendingas antithetical to responsible … in theirinformation about the economic situation, allocation of pork may enable passage oflegislation appropriate to a … "crisis" that might otherwise not pass. Pork "greases thelegislative wheels" not by bribing legislators to accept legislation …

technologyadoptions on U.S. hog farms. We find that some technologies used in pork production aresubstitutable for one another while …

technologyadoptions on U.S. hog farms. We find that some technologies used in pork production aresubstitutable for one another while …

Niche markets of agricultural products are experiencing rapid growth. One suchniche market is organic pork. Organic … pork production is a relatively new and expandingsegment of the pork industry. Similar to some other niche markets, it has …

Iowa pork niche-marketing firms. We describe and analyze each firm's management of five key organizational challenges … across the two firms in the way production and marketing are coordinated. These differences are partly explained by the … are also partly the result of a formal organizational separation between marketing and production activities in one of the …

Pork production has seen a period of volatility that it has not seen before. Duringthis period, there has been a rise … in a number of issues. Pork producers must deal withnarrowing margins, environmental issues, animal welfare issues …