Production and Marketing Characteristics of U.S. Pork Producers, 2000

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2001-08-01
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Lawrence, John
Grimes, Glenn
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The Department of Economic Science was founded in 1898 to teach economic theory as a truth of industrial life, and was very much concerned with applying economics to business and industry, particularly agriculture. Between 1910 and 1967 it showed the growing influence of other social studies, such as sociology, history, and political science. Today it encompasses the majors of Agricultural Business (preparing for agricultural finance and management), Business Economics, and Economics (for advanced studies in business or economics or for careers in financing, management, insurance, etc).

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The Department of Economic Science was founded in 1898 under the Division of Industrial Science (later College of Liberal Arts and Sciences); it became co-directed by the Division of Agriculture in 1919. In 1910 it became the Department of Economics and Political Science. In 1913 it became the Department of Applied Economics and Social Science; in 1924 it became the Department of Economics, History, and Sociology; in 1931 it became the Department of Economics and Sociology. In 1967 it became the Department of Economics, and in 2007 it became co-directed by the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Business.

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1898–present

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  • Department of Economic Science (1898–1910)
  • Department of Economics and Political Science (1910-1913)
  • Department of Applied Economics and Social Science (1913–1924)
  • Department of Economics, History and Sociology (1924–1931)
  • Department of Economics and Sociology (1931–1967)

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It is an obvious understatement that theU.S. pork industry is changing. It is a more daunting taskto quantify how it is changing, whatis driving it, and whatit may look like in the future. Researchers at theUniversity ofMissouri (Rhodes), and more receritly Iowa State University, have chronicled pork industry changes for over 25 years, and with the help ofPORK mag^ine have taken a snapshot for the year 2000. Thanks tothe hundreds ofproducers who responded to the survey, wehave another stake in the ground bywhich tomeasure the changes that are occurring.

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