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Interregional Competition in the U. S. Swine-pork Industry: an Analysis of Oklahoma's Expansion Potential

Meyer, Steven Roger
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Abstract

This study concerns an analysis of the potential for expanding Oklahoma's swine-pork industry. The primary objective of the study is to identify the economic conditions necessary for Oklahoma to compete favorably with other regions in producing and/or slaughtering hogs and to determine the limits to expansion possibilities in both of these sectors. An integrated programming model consisting of reactive programming and a linear programming formulation of a transhipment model is utilized to address the primary objective. The integrated programming model is solved to obtain least cost production, live hog shipment, slaughter and pork shipment patterns which fulfill spatial equilibrium demands under several sets of exogenous conditions. Conclusions concerning Oklahoma's production and slaughter expansion potentials, limits to these potentials and the sensitivity of the Oklahoma swine-pork industry to exogenous changes are drawn from these solutions.

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1981-12-01
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