What is changing the structure of hog production and where will it lead? Hog production is a major agricultural enterprise in the North Central states and more recently in North Carolina and Arkansas. Hog production has been a major enterprise in hundreds of thousands of diversified family farms and has been known, affectionately, as the mortgage burner. There now exists widespread concern that large corporations will soon dominate hog production. [...] U.S. hog production has been industrialized in the past 25 years. Much further concentration of ownership and control is in process. [...] The driving force of structural change has been the dynamic exploitation of profit opportunities associated with new technologies and managerial techniques. While trying to save family farms by anticorporate legislation at the state level has not worked, a new force for regulation is the "not in my backyard" (NIMBY) reaction of rural neighbors.

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