The industrialization of agriculture : vertical coordination in the U.S. food system

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The industrialization of agriculture : vertical coordination in the U.S. food system

edited by Jeffrey S. Royer, Richard T. Rogers

Ashgate, c1998

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This collection of papers from leading experts provides both extensive and intensive coverage of the industrialization of agriculture that continues to exert itself on the American landscape, forcing changes in agricultural production, marketing and the rural communities caught in the middle. This book gives a thorough overview of the issues involved in industrialization and vertical coordination, covering both the economic theory and applied business literatures.

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  • Contents: Overview of Vertical Coordination: The industrialization of agriculture: questions of coordination
  • Toward an institutional analysis of vertical coordination in agribusiness
  • Market structure, vertical integration and contract coordination
  • Quantifying vertical coordination: refinement of the Frank-Henderson vertical coordination index. Contracts, Grading and the Marketing Channel: Contractual arrangements at the Farm Gate
  • Grower response to broiler production contract design
  • The effect of ownership on contract structure, costs and quality: the case of the U.S. beet sugar industry
  • Microeconomics of agricultural commodity grading: impacts on the marketing channel. Industrialization in the Pork Sector: The changing U.S. pork industry: an overview
  • The industrialization of hog production
  • Vertical relationships and producer independence
  • Alternative models for the future of pork production
  • Sustainable agriculture: an alternative model for future pork producers. Foreign Investment, Consumer Impacts and Agricultural Cooperatives: Vertical integration in agribusiness foreign investment
  • The peanut programme and pass-through of prices, conjectural variations and consumers' welfare gain
  • Dairy cooperatives' role in vertical coordination.

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