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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Location of Fed Cattle Slaughtering and Processing: An Application of Mixed Integer Programming
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe fed cattle slaughtering and processing industry is dynamic. During the last decade major shifts in the structure and location have occurred, creating debate by economists and public policy makers about the causes and consequences of the changes. Concern has been expressed that smaller firms will be forced out of business with the development of plants with annual capacity in excess of one million head, leading to patterns of regional monopsony. Other attention has focused on a potential decrease in fed cattle production in the southwest plains states due to decreased feedgrain production (as a result of possible declines in the availability of groundwater for crop irrigation).
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Agricultural Economics
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Faminow, Merle Douglas
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8302856
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69850