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Dairy Sector Consolidation, Scale, Automation and Factor Biased Technical Change: Working through “Get Big or Get Out”
Choices (2018)
  • Hongli Feng, Michigan State University
  • David A. Hennessy, Michigan State University
  • Yanan Jia, Michigan State University
  • Melissa G. S. McKendree, Michigan State University
  • Christopher A. Wolf, Michigan State University
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Abstract
Milk production in the United States has become increasingly concentrated among fewer herds. This consolidation has, as in other on-farm agricultural sectors, long been recognized (e.g., Drabenstott, 1994; MacDonald, Cessna, and Mosheim, 2016). According to USDA milk production reports (LMIC, 2018), the number of licensed dairy herds in the United States declined from 45,344 in 2014 to 40,219 in 2017, a 4% annual rate of decline over the period.
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2018
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©2018 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
Citation Information
Hongli Feng, David A. Hennessy, Yanan Jia, Melissa G. S. McKendree, et al.. "Dairy Sector Consolidation, Scale, Automation and Factor Biased Technical Change: Working through “Get Big or Get Out”" Choices Vol. 33 Iss. 4 (2018) p. 1 - 8
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hongli-hennessy/58/