ISBN 1-84014-382-7
The Industrialization of Agriculture: Vertical Coordination in the U.S. Food System
Edited by Jeffrey S. Royer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Richard T. Rogers, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Published by Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, England, 1998, xi
+ 346 pp., hardcover $76.95.
ISBN 1-84014-382-7
This book focuses on issues associated with the increased coordination in U.S.agriculture and consists of sixteen papers selected from a research conference organized by the NE-165 Regional Research Project, "Private Strategies, Public Policies, and Food System Performance." The papers, written by economists and management scientists, range from theoretical to applied analyses of various aspects of vertical coordination. Several of the papers focus on industrialization of the pork sector.
For selected hightlights, see "Vertical Coordination in the U.S. Food System."
Contents
PART I: OVERVIEW OF VERTICAL COORDINATION
1 The Industrialization of Agriculture: Questions of
Coordination
Michael Boehlje and Lee F. Schrader 3
2 Toward an Institutional Analysis of Vertical Coordination in
Agribusiness
Loïc Sauvée 27
3 Market Structure, Vertical Integration, and Contract
Coordination
Jeffrey S. Royer 73
4 Quantifying Vertical Coordination: Refinement of the
Frank-Henderson Vertical Coordination Index
Dennis R. Henderson and Stuart D. Frank 99
PART II: CONTRACTS, GRADING, AND THE MARKETING CHANNEL
5 Contractual Arrangements at the Farm Gate
Garth John Holloway 115
6 Grower Response to Broiler Production Contract Design
Tomislav Vukina and William E. Foster 133
7 The Effect of Ownership on Contract Structure, Costs, and
Quality: The Case of the U.S. Beet Sugar Industry
Jeanine Koenig Balbach 155
8 Microeconomics of Agricultural Commodity Grading: Impacts on
the Marketing Channel
David A. Hennessy 185
PART III: INDUSTRIALIZATION IN THE PORK SECTOR
9 The Changing U.S. Pork Industry: An Overview
Kelly Zering 205
10 The Industrialization of Hog Production
V. James Rhodes 217
11 Vertical Relationships and Producer Independence
Dennis R. Henderson 241
12 Alternative Models for the Future of Pork Production
Roger G. Ginder 247
13 Sustainable Agriculture: An Alternative Model for Future
Pork Producers
John E. Ikerd 265
PART IV: FOREIGN INVESTMENT, CONSUMER IMPACTS, AND AGRICULTURAL
COOPERATIVES
14 Vertical Integration in Agribusiness Foreign Investment
Kingsley Bash and Stephen P. Davies 295
15 The Peanut Program and Pass-through of Prices, Conjectural
Variations, and Consumers' Welfare Gain
Satish Y. Deodhar and Stanley M. Fletcher 319
16 Dairy Cooperatives' Role in Vertical Coordination
K. Charles Ling and Carolyn Betts Liebrand 333