TY - JOUR
T1 - The industrialization of livestock production in the United States
AU - Hart, John Fraser
AU - Mayda, Chris
PY - 1998/5/1
Y1 - 1998/5/1
N2 - Livestock production in the United States has moved out of the barnyard and into the factory during the second half of the 20th century. Entrepreneurs have developed specialized large-scale, mass production systems for beef cattle, dairy cattle, broilers, eggs, turkeys, and hogs. They keep beef and dairy cattle in drylots, but house poultry and hogs in distinctive purpose-built structures. They have borrowed ideas and technologies from each other, and the new production systems have developed along parallel lines. Much industrialized livestock production is vertically integrated, with a single decision-making unit controlling the entire production process. The gargantuan new operations have been highly controversial.
AB - Livestock production in the United States has moved out of the barnyard and into the factory during the second half of the 20th century. Entrepreneurs have developed specialized large-scale, mass production systems for beef cattle, dairy cattle, broilers, eggs, turkeys, and hogs. They keep beef and dairy cattle in drylots, but house poultry and hogs in distinctive purpose-built structures. They have borrowed ideas and technologies from each other, and the new production systems have developed along parallel lines. Much industrialized livestock production is vertically integrated, with a single decision-making unit controlling the entire production process. The gargantuan new operations have been highly controversial.
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M3 - Article
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SN - 0038-366X
VL - 38
SP - 58
EP - 78
JO - Southeastern Geographer
JF - Southeastern Geographer
IS - 1
ER -