caa a22 4500 388054484 CHVBK 20180307125102.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199807 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1074070800008154 doi S1074070800008154 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1074070800008154 The Effect of Risk and Autonomy on Independent Hog Producers' Contracting Decisions [Elektronische Daten] [Jeffrey M. Gillespie, Vernon R. Eidman] The introduction of vertical coordination in the hog industry has provided producers with new business arrangements for raising hogs. While some researchers have elicited utility functions for hog producers on the basis of income risk, none have addressed autonomy, a factor which appears to be important in business arrangement selection for independent family hog operations. In this study, a method is developed for eliciting a multi-attribute function with attributes of income and autonomy. Utility functions are elicited for a group of Minnesota farrow-to-finish hog producers. For these producers, autonomy dominated risk as the most important attribute in business arrangement selection. Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1998 autonomy nationallicence contracting nationallicence hog industry nationallicence risk nationallicence Gillespie Jeffrey M. Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center aut Eidman Vernon R. University of Minnesota aut Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics Cambridge University Press 30/1(1998-07), 175-188 1074-0708 30:1<175 1998 30 AAE https://doi.org/10.1017/S1074070800008154 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1074070800008154 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gillespie Jeffrey M. Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eidman Vernon R. University of Minnesota aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics Cambridge University Press 30/1(1998-07), 175-188 1074-0708 30:1<175 1998 30 AAE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge