caa a22 4500 386316554 CHVBK 20180307111607.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0081305200017593 doi S0081305200017593 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0081305200017593 A Markov Chain Analysis of Pork Farm Size Distributions in the South [Elektronische Daten] [W. Terry Disney, Patricia A. Duffy, William E. Hardy] Concerns over declining farm numbers, shifts in farm size distribution, and associated infrastructural problems have led to a heightened awareness of structural considerations within policy making circles. Future policy decisions will have substantial structural consequences for the agricultural industry. Often, however, the indirect effects of grain pricing policies on the livestock sector have been overlooked in these policy decisions. The incorporation of price effects into a Markov chain analysis of pork farm size distributions and the simulation of those projections to the year 2000 under various price scenarios should provide some insight into the future structure of livestock farming in the South. Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1988 Markov chain nationallicence farm size distribution nationallicence pork farms nationallicence Disney W. Terry Agricultural Economics and U.S.D.A. National Needs Graduate Fellow at Auburn University aut Duffy Patricia A. Agricultural Economics at Auburn University aut Hardy William E. Agricultural Economics at Auburn University aut Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics Cambridge University Press 20/2(1988-12), 57-64 0081-3052 20:2<57 1988 20 AAE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081305200017593 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081305200017593 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Disney W. Terry Agricultural Economics and U.S.D.A. National Needs Graduate Fellow at Auburn University aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Duffy Patricia A. Agricultural Economics at Auburn University aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hardy William E. Agricultural Economics at Auburn University aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics Cambridge University Press 20/2(1988-12), 57-64 0081-3052 20:2<57 1988 20 AAE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge