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IMPACT ANALYSIS OF SARA LEE'S CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING ON MICHIGAN'S TURKEY INDUSTRY AND SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN'S LOCAL ECONOMY
Burrows, Spencer Antonio - 2000
other growers. This action left turkey growers in the region without a market for their live birds.To assess the …
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Firm Size, Technical Change and Wages: Evidence from the Pork Sector from 1990-2005
Yu, LI; Hurley, Terrance M.; Kliebenstein, James B.; … - 2007
A long-standing puzzle in labor economics has been the positive relationship between wages and firm size. Even after controlling for worker's observed characteristics such as education, work experience, gender, and geographic location, a significant firm size wage effect averaging 15 percent...
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A MAGYAR BAROMFI ÁGAZAT AKTUÁLIS PROBLÉMÁI
Szollosi, Laszlo; Nabradi, Andras - 2008
competitiveness of this industry. It was caused by rising of home and international market defenselessness and objective indicators …
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The Impact of International Cooperation on Rural Producer Organizations: Case Study of a Dairy Association in Bolivia
Serrano, Emma Estela Saavedra - 2008
Bolivia is one of the largest developing countries inSouth America that has been received the aid from theinternational cooperation since the seventies. Manyprogrammes and projects were implemented across theterritories of the country in the aim to reduce the poverty.However, the experiences...
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Effects of Environmental Regulation on Economic Activity and Pollution in Commercial Agriculture
Sneeringer, Stacy E. - 2009
Research on environmental regulation’s effects on economic activity has largely focused on manufacturing, ignoring one of the major polluters in the U.S. – commercial agriculture. As livestock production has become increasingly mobile, regulation has become an important criterion in firm...
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A baromfi ágazat versenyképességének helyreállítása
Nabradi, Andras; Szollosi, Laszlo - 2008
international market defencelessness aswell as objective competitive disadvantages were the causing factors in the sector. The … set as a strategic goal, while decreasingdomestic and international market defencelessness, increasing profi t and …
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Production Contracts and the Spot Market Price of Hogs
Key, Nigel D. - 2010
The increasing use of production contracts in the hog sector has reduced the number of spot market transactions, raised … and 2007 Censuses of Agriculture, this study looks for evidence of market manipulation by examining whether the local …-effects model to examine whether the change in the prevalence of contracting is correlated with the change in the spot market price …
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Production Contracts and Farm Business Growth and Survival
Key, Nigel D. - 2010
In recent decades there has been a substantial increase in the scale of production and the use of production contracts in the hog sector. This paper explores empirically whether these two phenomena are related by examining whether the use of production contracts has allowed finish hog operations...
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Hog Insurance Adoption and Suppliers' Discrimination: A Bivariate Probit Model with Partial Observability
Cao, Ying; Zhang, Yuehua - 2011
This paper explores the factors that impact insurance choices. Specially designed survey questions allow one to fully observe the demand tendency by the farmers and partially observe the supply tendency by the insurance company. A joint estimation of insurance decision by both supply and demand...
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Live and Feeder Cattle Options Markets: Returns, Risk, and Volatility Forecasting
Brittain, Lee; Garcia, Philip; Irwin, Scott H. - 2009
exist holdingseveral market positions, most strategies are strongly affected by a drift in futures market prices ….However, the returns from selling live cattle puts are persistent, and evidence from straddlereturns identifies that the market … in market conditions. …
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