Re: trends in American Agriculture

Richard Egg (r-egg@tamu.edu)
Mon, 1 May 1995 12:25:35 -0600

Your 4/25/95 message wrote the following:
> Could you help me with leads to sources and your own
>thoughts on a topic that often comes my way , especially from visitors from
>other countries. These are from people active in community action, coops,
>consumer groups who want to know
> " What is going on with American Agriculture- what are the trends,
> main areas undergoing change,and what do different
>people(public as well as producers) think about all of this?"
>

In January, at the Texas A&M University Agricultural Program annual
conference, one of the keynote speakers talked about the centralization and
industrialization of agriculture in the U.S. and the world. For almost
every major commodity--corn, wheat, pork, etc.--five or fewer companies
controlled over 50% of the production.

The conference had no published proceedings, but the speaker was:

William D. Hefferman,Professor
Department of Rural Sociology
University of Missouri, Columbia

If you contact him or do a literature search, you should be able to find
some information on the subject.

Richard Egg
Agricultural Engineering Department
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-2117

(409) 845-7686 (r-egg@tamu.edu)