The Missouri School of Agrifood Studies began with a focus on the power of agribusiness corporations in relation to quality of life of farmers and their related communities. The poultry industry was the first commodity studied, with later research into other commodity sectors and then the global dimensions of this process. In this paper I continue the Missouri School agenda by focusing on the entry of the poultry firm Sanderson Farms and the hog firm Seaboard Farms into Texas. This paper combines a sociology of the agrifood system conceptual framework with two case studies of agribusiness expansion in Texas to inform discussions regarding the characteristics of the globalization of the agrifood system. The results of the research indicate t...
ABSTRACT The restructuring of the animal agriculture indus-try in the United States, a response to g...
In 2007, a global food crisis brought the topic of agriculture back into the public eye, and ret...
American agriculture is inexorably concentrating into the hands of a small number of large conglomer...
Article originally published in Southern Rural Sociology. Copyright owned by Southern Rural Sociolog...
The Missouri School of Agrifood Studies began with a focus on the power of agribusiness corporations...
Article originally published in Southern Rural Sociology. Copyright owned by Southern Rural Sociolog...
Article originally published in International Journal of Sociology of AgricultureEmploying the case ...
The “Missouri School” of critical agrifood studies has provided an effective framework for documenti...
The future of farm policy in the United States will be influenced by trends in economic and politica...
Industrialization of the food and agricultural sectors changes the pattern of external effects. Part...
The restructuring of the animal agriculture industry in the United States, a response to globalizati...
This is the Authors Accepted Version of the article published in 1999 by Culture and AgricultureIn t...
The “Missouri School ” of critical agrifood studies has provided an effective framework for document...
Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, Sociology, 2008Today, within our current global economy, f...
The importance of studying and analyzing the factors affecting commercial farming operations cannot ...
ABSTRACT The restructuring of the animal agriculture indus-try in the United States, a response to g...
In 2007, a global food crisis brought the topic of agriculture back into the public eye, and ret...
American agriculture is inexorably concentrating into the hands of a small number of large conglomer...
Article originally published in Southern Rural Sociology. Copyright owned by Southern Rural Sociolog...
The Missouri School of Agrifood Studies began with a focus on the power of agribusiness corporations...
Article originally published in Southern Rural Sociology. Copyright owned by Southern Rural Sociolog...
Article originally published in International Journal of Sociology of AgricultureEmploying the case ...
The “Missouri School” of critical agrifood studies has provided an effective framework for documenti...
The future of farm policy in the United States will be influenced by trends in economic and politica...
Industrialization of the food and agricultural sectors changes the pattern of external effects. Part...
The restructuring of the animal agriculture industry in the United States, a response to globalizati...
This is the Authors Accepted Version of the article published in 1999 by Culture and AgricultureIn t...
The “Missouri School ” of critical agrifood studies has provided an effective framework for document...
Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, Sociology, 2008Today, within our current global economy, f...
The importance of studying and analyzing the factors affecting commercial farming operations cannot ...
ABSTRACT The restructuring of the animal agriculture indus-try in the United States, a response to g...
In 2007, a global food crisis brought the topic of agriculture back into the public eye, and ret...
American agriculture is inexorably concentrating into the hands of a small number of large conglomer...