Economic Instability and Choices involving Income and Risk in Livestock and Poultry Production, July 1955

(1955) Economic Instability and Choices involving Income and Risk in Livestock and Poultry Production, July 1955. Iowa State University

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Abstract

This study is an empirical one dealing particularly with adjustments to uncertainty. Its purpose are (1) to evaluate price fac tors contributing to uncertainty in lives tock production, (2) to measure income variability for different enterprises and (3) to test different patterns of diversification as means of reducing income variability.