An Examination of Trends in Geographic Concentration in U.S. Hog Production, 1974–96

Hubbell, Bryan; Welsh, Rick

doi:10.1017/s1074070800008294

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“…A leading source of current public concern associated with livestock industrialization and the spatial concentration of production is the stress large-scale production facilities place on the physical environment (Abdalla et al 1995;Hubbel and Welsh 1998). Manure management and water quality impacts are two prominent environmental concerns (Mallin 2000;Gollehon and Caswell 2000;Jackson 1998) identified as central issues in several studies of local resistance to livestock development (Constance 2002;Burmeister 2002;Delind 1998).…”

Section: Agricultural Industrialization and Public Concernmentioning

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Awareness and Concern about Large-Scale Livestock and Poultry: Results from a Statewide Survey of Ohioans*

Sharp

Tucker

2005

Rural Sociology

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The development of large-scale livestock facilities has become a controversial issue in many regions of the U.S in recent years. In this research, rural-urban differences in familiarity and concern about large-scale livestock facilities among Ohioans is examined as well as the relationship of social distance from agriculture and trust in risk managers to concern about large-scale livestock facilities. Findings from a survey of Ohio residents reveal few differences between rural and urban Ohioans, although country, nonfarm residents were more likely than others to be aware of the issues. Greater trust of farmers was found to be related to lower levels of livestock concern. Environmental concern was strongly related to overall concern about large-scale livestock development, while perceptions of economic benefits of livestock production were associated with lower overall concern. In general, the findings contribute to improved understanding of the increasingly complex relationship between farming and the social setting within which it occurs.

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Section: Agricultural Industrialization and Public Concernmentioning

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Awareness and Concern about Large-Scale Livestock and Poultry: Results from a Statewide Survey of Ohioans*

Sharp

Tucker

2005

Rural Sociology

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“…These indexes are the generally used and accepted in the economy, this is why we consider to present and interpret of this measuring's importance. The special literature mentions many kinds of concentration-analysis methods (Hubbell & Welsh, 1998;El-Osta & Morehart, 2002;Crespi & Marette, 2006;Mitton, 2008), which are used often in agriculture.…”

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Concentration Analysis of the Hungarian Mangalica Pig Stock

Pocsai

Szabó²,

Balogh³

2012

CBR

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In the animal raising sector of Hungary, the indigenious and special Hungarian product called Mangalica pig has a special significance. Some descriptions were made about the species but the concentration of this segment has not been examined, that is why the aim of the researchers is to analyse the concentration of the Mangalica population on the basis of various statistical methods in the last 10 years. The certain concentration indexes were the following: the concentration ratio, the Lorenz-curve, the Gini-coefficient, the Herfindahl-index and the redundancy

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“…The implicit assumption behind this restriction is that farm specialisation within a county, i.e. how agricultural production differs across farms within a county, is relatively low within homogeneous regions (Peterson, 1995;Hubbell and Welsh, 1998). In the Spanish case, there is evidence of important differences between inland and Mediterranean agriculture (Garcia Alvarez Coque et al, 1999;Mora and San Juan, 2002), but there are no previous studies dealing with crop specialisation at the farm level within narrow geographical units such as counties.…”

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Geographical specialisation in Spanish agriculture before and after integration in the European Union

Mora

Mesonada

2004

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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This paper analyzes the evolution of agricultural product specialisation at the farm and county levels in Spain from 1979 to 1997. This period covers all the stages of the gradual implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy and the integration of the Spanish agriculture into the European Market. A multiple product version of Theil and Finizza's indices of segregation is used to decompose farm product specialisation into county specialisation with respect to the national level and farm specialisation within counties. Using a probit specification, we test whether changes in specialisation are driven by comparative advantage at regional level or have been policy induced. Our results confirm the existence of increasing county specialisation and highlight the fact that counties which were initially more specialised in export oriented products have shown the largest increase in specialisation.

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An Examination of Trends in Geographic Concentration in U.S. Hog Production, 1974–96

Cited by 26 publications

References 13 publications

Awareness and Concern about Large-Scale Livestock and Poultry: Results from a Statewide Survey of Ohioans*

Awareness and Concern about Large-Scale Livestock and Poultry: Results from a Statewide Survey of Ohioans*

Concentration Analysis of the Hungarian Mangalica Pig Stock

Geographical specialisation in Spanish agriculture before and after integration in the European Union

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