FEEDLOT ECONOMIES OF SIZE REVISITED

Joseph C. Meisner and V. James Rhodes

No 284579, 1974 Annual Meeting, August 18-21, College Station, Texas from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: At the American Agricultural Economics Association meeting in 1969, Raup (17, p. 1274) noted, "With a handful of exceptions, there ate no truly large-scale firms in American Agriculture." One exception, cattle feeding, has greatly increased its scale of operations and level ~f concentration since then. Various explanations are given for this phenomenon. However, the chief focus for explaining cattle feeding concentration has been studies of economies of size of feedlots.

Keywords: Livestock; Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10
Date: 1974-08
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.284579

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