@article{Parkins:206563,
      recid = {206563},
      author = {Parkins, John R.},
      title = {Industrial agriculture and community outcomes:  A  preliminary study of Goldschmidt’s hypothesis  in rural  Canada},
      address = {2015-06-30},
      number = {1529-2016-132093},
      series = {Staff Paper},
      pages = {15},
      month = {Jun},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {In the 1970s, Goldschmidt found that industrialization of  swine production in Iowa resulted in declining social and  economic returns to neighbouring farming communities. This  finding is confirmed by several more recent studies in the  United States, indicating that regions dominated by family  farms possess better socioeconomic conditions compared to  regions with larger farms. This paper explores the  Goldschmidt hypothesis in the Canadian context with data  from the Census of Canada and the Census of Agriculture  (2006) at the level of the Census Consolidated Subdivision.   Measures of industrialization include indices of farm  capitalization and farm receipts, and a ratio of total pigs  and total cows per farm within a region and indicators for  socioeconomic status include average income and a poverty  rate. Bivariate and multivariate statistics show that the  relationship between agricultural structure and  socioeconomic outcomes is often weak, or potentially  non-linear. The mean number of pigs per farm in a  Subdivision, for example, is associated with higher average  incomes to a point (approximately 2500 pigs) and then, on  average, no further income gains are realized from larger  herds. Based on these findings, we reject the Goldschmidt  hypothesis and construct a more complex picture of the  social effects of agricultural industrialization in rural  Canada.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/206563},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.206563},
}