Meat processing and Garden City, KS: Boom and bust

Journal of Rural Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-66

  Broadway, Michael J ^a   Stull, Donald D ^b  

^a NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INSTABILITY; FOOD PROCESSING; MEAT; RURAL ECONOMY;

GARDEN CITY; KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 29644432281     PISSN: 07430167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2005.06.001     Document Type: Article

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