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Vertical Integration In The Chicken Broiler Industry, Juana Sanchez

Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture

This paper analyzes three hypotheses concerning supply in the U.S. chicken broiler industry: (a) there has been a cycle in the industry of approximately 27-36 months length; (b) the seasonal and other periodic components, as well as relations between variables, have changed as a result of vertical integration in the industry; (c) the effects of vertical integration in the industry were counteracted in the early seventies by such forces external to the industry as domestic and international economic conditions .

The hypotheses are analyzed using new monthly, non-seasonally adjusted time series data for chick placement, wholesale broiler prices, chicks hatched …