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- Title
Technological Changes in Beef and Pork Production:Effects on Marketing Margins and Prices.
- Authors
Marsh, John M.; Brester, Gary W.
- Abstract
Presents a study that examined the effects of changing meat packer and farm-level technologies on real beef and pork farm-wholesale marketing margins and on livestock prices in the U.S. Importance of technological changes in meat production; Factors contributing to long-term declines in real slaughter prices and farm-wholesale margins; Impacts of increased farm-level technology on marketing margins.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEAT industry; MEAT packing houses; CATTLE industry; TECHNOLOGY; LIVESTOCK; PRICES; BEEF packers; ANIMAL industry
- Publication
Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm & Resource Issues, 2003, Vol 18, Issue 4, p27
- ISSN
0886-5558
- Publication type
Article