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Hogs numbers declining
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Agriculture-where the buffalo roam
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The new U.S. meat industry
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Agriculture: Le parfum de hog
Hogs and people aren't making good neighbors.
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Meat production
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Beef production expected to turn up
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Less acres, high usage boost grain prices
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The changing hog sector
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Meat production continues to trend upward
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This little piggy went to market : will the new pork industry call the Heartland home?
Throughout the 1990s, the pork industry has been at the forefront of a revolution in the structure of the U.S. food and agricultural sector. In particular, the pork industry has been rapidly moving away from its traditional structure built on hundreds of thousands of small farms selling hogs at local terminal markets to a much more concentrated "supply chain" model. Contracting is one prominent feature of supply chains, and the share of pork production grown under contract or vertical integration has jumped from a few percent in the early 1980s to around a third today. Most analysts agree ...