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Technological Change in Meat and Poultry-Packing and Processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

David K. Lambert
David K. Lambert*
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Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nevada, Reno
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Abstract

Nonparametric procedures are used to compare technological change in SIC 2011, meatpacking, and SIC 2015, poultry slaughter and processing. There has been a greater increase in total factor productivity in poultry than in the red meats. Evidence also suggests recent differences in the bias of this technological change, with production changes being labor using in poultry and biased towards greater efficiency in the use of live animal inputs in meatpacking.

Keywords

red meatpoultrymeatpackingtechnological changenonparametric analysis
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , December 1994 , pp. 591 - 604
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1994

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