This study’s emphasis on mid-sized poultry processors emerged from a larger, national study examining the plight of similar sized agricultural operations in the ., past, present and future. Since 2003, a task force of academics, agricultural extension workers and others has focused on studying a sector of agriculture in the . referred to as ‘Agriculture of the Middle’. This sector comprises a group of businesses owned by farmers, ranchers, processors and other entrepreneurs. These businesses produce agricultural products of many types on a scale that is neither industrial or small farm in scale and.
