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All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
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Patterns Of Dairy Farm Exit And Growth In The Great Basin Milk Marketing Area January 1, 1960-June 1, 1965, R. Carlyle Bradshaw
Patterns Of Dairy Farm Exit And Growth In The Great Basin Milk Marketing Area January 1, 1960-June 1, 1965, R. Carlyle Bradshaw
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This study was undertaken to determine which characteristics, if any, distinguish exit from active milk producers; why producers exit from the industry; what happens to those resources formerly used in the dairy industry; the predictability of a producer either increasing or decreasing in size.
This study encompassed the milk producers in the Great Basin Federal Milk Market Area which is the central and northern part of Utah.
It was not possible to determine any characteristics which would distinguish the exit from the active producers. All of the sample producers sold most of their cows. A large percentage kept their land …