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Product Complementarity in Production: The By-product Case*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Bruce Beattie ,
Stassen Thompson  and
Michael Boehlje
Bruce Beattie
Affiliation:
Texas A&M University
Stassen Thompson
Affiliation:
Clemson University
Michael Boehlje
Affiliation:
Iowa State University
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The product-product relationship has been a traditional subject of most production economics and farm management courses for the past two decades. Although the traditional examples of product-product optimization have come primarily from the agricultural production sector (e.g., legume-corn rotations and crop-livestock combinations), the concept is useful in analyzing the organization of any multi-product firm-including those firms which produce externalities in the form of environmental degradation.

Three concepts or ideas usually are offered as giving rise to a positively sloped or complementary range on the product transformation surface-(l) one production process uses as an input a by-product of another production process, (2) one process uses quantities of a factor that are “surplus” to another, or (3) technical interaction (production function shifts) occurs.

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Research Article
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , December 1974 , pp. 161 - 165
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1974

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Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Article No. 11428.

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