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Production Organization Implications of Agricultural Industrialization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Odell L. Walker*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University

Extract

An implicit theme of industrialization in agriculture has run throughout much of the literature in agricultural economics since 1950. Maybe we have been lulled by the future tense used in the literature. Industrialization is here and much of the process has taken place without an update on patterns of thought or assessment of implications for present or future agricultural business environment. Possibly, those of us in agricultural economics research, teaching or extension at land grant colleges have undergone much less impact and reorientation than those we serve, and, theoretically, lead in thought.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1970

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