Question:NEWS WIRE
COMPETITIVE MARKETS
Catfish Farmers Feel Forced Out of
Business
Also feeling the pinch from...
Question
NEWS WIRE
COMPETITIVE MARKETS
Catfish Farmers Feel Forced Out of
Business
Also feeling the pinch from...
NEWS WIRE
COMPETITIVE MARKETS
Catfish Farmers Feel Forced Out of
Business
Also feeling the pinch from foreign
imports and rising grain costs, Jerry Seamans is cutting back his
1,200 acres of catfish ponds by 20 percent and returning the
acreage to soybeans and rice....
"I really don't know of a fish
operation that's not changing," said Seamans, whose farm is just
outside of Lake Village. "Some people are going out of business,
several people are doing the same thing I'm doing. Most everybody
in the business is trying to make major adjustments."
At its peak in 2002, Arkansas' catfish
industry numbered 195 operations covering 38,000 acres of ponds.
The latest numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show 128
catfish farms with 29,900 acres of ponds. Production has dropped
from 106,821 pounds two years ago to the current 90,400
pounds.
Source: TheFishSite.com, May 26, 2008.
Used with permission of 5M Publishing.
Under perfectly competitive scenarios
firms exit the business when economic losses are incurred.
According to the News Wire above, how many Arkansas catfish farms
quit the business due to economic losses?