@article{Dubman:309516,
      recid = {309516},
      author = {Dubman, Robert and Hanson, Gregory },
      title = {Financial Performance of Specialized Hog Farms, 1987  },
      address = {1989-12},
      number = {1474-2021-669},
      series = {Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 578},
      pages = {12},
      year = {1989},
      abstract = {Specialized hog farms--those with at least 50 percent of  their  production value from hogs and with at least $40,000  in total  crop and livestock production—had more favorable  financial  conditions in 1987 than most other types of  commodity  specialty farms.  Since 1985, net returns have  increased 87  percent and the number of financially  stressed farms has  decreased 61 percent.  Small farms with  sales of $40,000  to $100,000 had the least favorable costs  and returns.  Production was concentrated In four adjoining  areas:  the Northern Plains, the western Corn Belt, the  eastern Corn Belt, and the Southeast.  Specialized hog  farms in the eastern Corn Belt had the highest net returns  and lowest costs.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/309516},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.309516},
}