Industrialization and Contracting in U.S. Agriculture

Animal Disease and the Industrialization of Agriculture

The industrialization of animal agriculture has fundamentally transformed animal health markets while animal health innovations have promoted this industrialization. The subtlety of these interactions shows how little we know about agricultural industrialization. To illustrate, we consider three stylized features of industrialized animal agriculture. These are the closing off of production acti...

Industrialization in Animal Agriculture: A Kalman Filter Analysis

Electronic Agriculture Resources and Agriculture Industrialization Support Information Service Platform Structure and Implementation

Agriculture resources and agriculture industrialization support information service platform is an important part of Agriculture affair support platform of west part national area of P. R. China, a key projects in the National Science & Technology Pillar Program in the Eleventh Five-year Plan Period. The system is designed as a 3 layers structure. Database support subsystem is the base layer. T...

Role, Usage and Motivation for Contracting in Agriculture

Structural and productivity change in US agriculture , 1950 – 1982

This paper tests whether structural change in US agriculture is an important channel to TFP growth and evaluates the relative impact of (i) public research and education policies, (ii) private R&D and market forces, and (iii) government farm programs on structural change. We specify a structural econometric model, fit it to US state aggregate data, 1953–1982, and use the associated reduced-form...