Dairy Sector Consolidation, Scale, Automation and Factor Biased Technical Change: Working through “Get Big or Get Out”

Hongli Feng, David Hennessy, Yanan Jia, Melissa G.S. McKendree and Christopher Wolf ()

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2018, vol. 33, issue 4

Abstract: Consolidation in the U.S. dairy industry, as in other agricultural industries, has long been recognized. Through surveying dairy farmers facing persistently low milk prices, we found a generally negative outlook and an ongoing trend of “get big or get out” characterized by a bias toward capital away from labor.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Livestock Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.279863

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