contracts, futures and options, packer marketing contracts, and financial management. …

have examined the effects of increasing packer concentration on these declines. However, most have generally failed to … technological change is explicitly considered, we find that increasing packer concentration: (1) does not affect real farm …

adversely affected by high packer concentration and market power. In this report, we examine the cattle cycle of the 1990's to … patterns of price adjustment. Finally, despite the growth of packer concentration, we failed to demonstrate large negative … effects of packer concentration on cattle prices during the 1991-to-present cattle cycle. …