In addition to horizontal consolidation at the input, production, and processing subsectors, the US pork industry is becoming more vertically aligned. The largest hog producers and pork processors were surveyed regarding their involvement in vertical coordination arrangements and their plans for...

Changes among agricultural input industries have important implications for US agriculture. Reasons for these changes have included the globalization of the marketplace, technological advances, and a changing farm sector. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

A controversial topic in US courts has been the tax treatment of purchased intangible assets, which affects the market value of many agribusinesses. The Supreme Court ruled in 1993 that intangible assets, such as sales forces, customer lists, patents, etc., were depreciable if there were...

Exporting high-valued products in general, and meat and meat products in particular, has not been a marketing alternative explored by many purveyors of such products, A series of interviews with executives of successful meat exporting firms was conducted to determine alternative successful...

Soybean futures spreads in the 1948-1997 period are evaluated for the associated monetary risks inherent in multiyear hedge-to-arrive contracts (HTAs). For all years, the probability of having a negative old crop-new crop spread is approximately 75%. However, the high-price years have a 100%...

This study examines possible causes for the poor performance that has characterized the forward pricing and hedging practices used by participants in meat processing and merchandising operations. Alternative methods of managing price risk or meat merchandisers are presented and evaluated. The...