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Does the World Need U.S. Farmers Even if Americans Don't?
(2006-09)
We consider the implications of trends in the number of U.S. farmers and food imports on the question of what role U.S. farmers have in an increasingly global agrifood system. Our discussion stems from the argument some scholars have made...
Contracting for Consistency: Hog Quality and the Use of Marketing Contracts
(Social Science Research Network, 2009-03)
Despite the dramatic change in the organization of the US hog industry over the
past two decades, the existing literature offers little insight into the decision by pork
packers to use long-term marketing contracts, which ...
Markets, Contracts, or Integration? The Adoption, Diffusion, and Evolution of Organizational Form
(2007-04)
The rise of contract farming and vertical integration is one of the most important changes in modern agriculture. Yet the adoption and diffusion of these new forms of organization has varied widely across regions, commodities, ...