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| Yu, Li; Hurley, Terrance M.; Kliebenstein, James B.; Orazem, Peter F.. |
| A long-standing puzzle in labor economics has been the positive relationship between wages and firm size. Even after controlling for worker's observed characteristics such as education, work experience, gender, and geographic location, a significant firm size wage effect averaging 15 percent remains. This paper investigates whether the size-wage premium on hog farms persists over time and whether the magnitude is growing or shrinking. The paper pays particular attention to the matching process by which workers are allocated to farms of different size and technology use, and whether the matching process may explain differences in wages across farms. The study relies on four surveys of employees on hog farms collected in 1990, 1995, 2000, and 2005. The... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9991 |
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| Hurley, Terrance M.; Kliebenstein, James B.; Orazem, Peter F.. |
| Pork production has been evolving from relatively small, family-run operations toward large-scale operations with several employees. This study uses a national survey of pork producers and their employees to answer several questions about the structure of wages and benefits in this rapidly changing labor market. The findings include: 1) wages do not differ across regions of the country but, instead, reflect differences in worker skills and firm size consistent with a nationally competitive labor market; 2) there is no evidence that large producers have market power in local labor markets that enable them to pay lower wages than competitors; 3) rather; large firms pay higher wages, offer better benefits, and safer working environments than smaller firms;... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18273 |
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| Hueth, Brent; Ibarburu, Maro A.; Kliebenstein, James B.. |
| We study business organization and coordination of specialty-market hog production using a comparative analysis of two Iowa pork niche-marketing firms. We describe and analyze each firm's management of five key organizational challenges: planning and logistics, quality assurance, process verification and management of "credence attributes," business structure, and profit sharing. Although each firm is engaged in essentially the same activity, there are substantial differences across the two firms in the way production and marketing are coordinated. These differences are partly explained by the relative size and age of each firm, thus highlighting the importance of organizational evolution in agricultural markets, but are also partly the result of a formal... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Specialty hogs; Coordination; Contracting; Organizational design; Niche markets; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18340 |
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| Yu, Li; Hurley, Terrance M.; Kliebenstein, James B.; Orazem, Peter F.. |
| The hypothetical distribution of multiple technology adoptions under the assumption that technologies are mutually independent is compared against the actual observed distribution of technology adoptions on hog farms. Combinations of technologies that occur with greater frequency than would occur under independence are mutually complementary technologies. Combinations that occur with less frequency are substitute technologies. This method is easily applied to simultaneous decisions regarding many technologies. We find that some technologies used in pork production are mutually substitutable for one another while others are complementary. However, as the number of bundled technologies increases, they are increasingly likely to be complementary with one... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9836 |
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| Kliebenstein, James B.; Hurley, Sean P.; Larson, Ben; Honeyman, Mark. |
| Niche markets of agricultural products are experiencing rapid growth. One such market is organic pork. Organic production typically demands specific production conditions that can be cost increasing. This study evaluates the cost of organic pork production, seasonal differences in costs, and premiums necessary to induce continuous organic pork production. In the past few years, niche marketing has been a rapidly growing phenomenon in agriculture. One area that has experienced dramatic growth is the production of organic products. Organic production typically brings with it specific conditions on how the product is produced. These can impact the cost structure of the business and in turn, needed premiums for economic production. One of these niche... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Marketing. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/20415 |
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| Ernst, Matthew; Rodecker, Jared; Luvaga, Ebby; Alexander, Terence; Kliebenstein, James B.; Miranowski, John A.. |
| Energy production and use has long been a major policy concern in Iowa. The 1990 Comprehensive Energy Plan for Iowa established two statewide goals around which current energy policy is structured: To meet all future demand for energy by increasing efficiency rather than supply; To increase the use of alternative energy resources from 2% of Iowa's total energy consumption to 5% by the year 2005 and 10% by 2015. While much of the current interest in Iowa concerning new applications of anaerobic digestion focuses on agriculture, the primary application of the process in the United States has been to treat wastewater from industrial sites. These applications include slaughterhouse, dairy and cheese, distillery, and starch production processes. This report... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18235 |
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| Yu, Li; Hurley, Terrance M.; Kliebenstein, James B.; Orazem, Peter F.. |
| Economists have long puzzled over the fact that large firms pay higher wages than small firms, even after controlling for worker's observed productive characteristics. One possible explanation has been that firm size is correlated with unobserved productive attributes which confound firm size with other productive characteristics. This study investigates the size-wage premium in the context of firms competing within a single market for a relatively homogeneous product: hogs. We pay particular attention to the matching process by which workers are linked to farms of different size and technology use, and whether the matching process may explain differences in wages across farms. The study relies on four surveys of employees on hog farms collected in 1990,... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Labor and Human Capital; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6138 |
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| Brewer, Clarence; Kliebenstein, James B.; Hayenga, Marvin L.. |
| Cost of production information for major pork exporting countries was collected from producer record systems. The cost of production data for farrow-to-finish operations was reviewed and transformed in comparable categories. The cost comparisons show that like-kind Midwestern U.S. producers have approximate cost differences of $6.00 per cwt marketed. The international farrow-to-finish cost of production per cwt for 1995 is as follows: Western Canada (38.97), large Midwest U.S. (39.03), average Midwest U.S. (43.28), Eastern Canada (46.97), the Netherlands (74.58), and Denmark (77.59). Depending on size and location of operation, cost of production in 1995, ranged from 38.97 to 77.59 cwt marketed. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18260 |
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| Govindasamy, Ramu; Liu, Donald J.; Kliebenstein, James B.. |
| This paper examines the impact of PST on the optimal production/marketing decisions of a grow-finish hog farm operation. The analysis evaluates PST from three angles: the feed efficiency effect, the leaner meat price effect, and the aggregate-supply-induced price effect. When limited to the feed efficiency effect only, the primary response to the new technology is to increase the animal turnover rate of the operation. When the leaner meat price effect is also included, marketing weight increases while turnover rate remains relatively unchanged. Additionally, if the increased aggregate supply depressed the market price by more than 10%, the benefits from improved feed efficiency and learner meat will be completely dissipated. Aggregate price... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1993 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31544 |
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