Marketing specialty hogs: A comparative analysis of two firms from Iowa

Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 720-733

  Hueth, Brent ^a   Ibarburu, Maro ^b   Kliebenstein, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 35448997263     PISSN: 10587195     EISSN: 14679353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9353.2007.00383.x     Document Type: Article

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