The purpose of this article is to evaluate the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on wages, employment, and plant closures in the meat packing, prepared meat products, and poultry slaughter and processing industries during two merger periods, 1977-1987 and 1982-1992. The analysis relies...

In this article, the authors describe the survey methodology needed to obtain data to support several empirical analyses dealing with food safety issues. The most striking finding about the survey methodology was the much higher response rate due to the use of priority mail and an incentive...

This article empirically examines the impact of regulation on new pesticide crop use registrations and sales. Results suggest that regulatory costs negatively affect new pesticide crop use registrations, require firms to develop only high-revenue pesticides that generate sufficient revenue to...

Increasing risk and costs from food-borne illness has led food-processing firms to intensify pathogen reduction efforts. Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) is one system for evaluating which hazards need to be controlled and where in the production process they can be...

This study uses plant-level micro‐data over 1987–2002 and a translog cost function to examine structural change in the cattle and chicken slaughter and pork processing and sausage‐making industries during a period of increasing food safety oversight. Results suggest that labor and capital...

Royer, Jeffrey S., & Rogers, Richard T. (Eds.). (1998). The industrialization of agriculture: Vertical coordination in the U.S. food system, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, xi 1 346 pp.

Large food manufacturers grew rapidly between 1976 and 1982, both by increasing their share of food manufacturing and by expanding into services. Diversification into new industries accounted for more than half of that growth. Much of the new diversification was directed toward related...