Beef tenderness is critical in consumer satisfaction with beef steak products. Current fed cattle valuation systems do … willing to pay more for tender relative to tough beef steak. This article develops a tenderness-augmentation to current fed … is present to improve beef tenderness through new price signals to producers. …

A residual demand model for beef exports to Japan is specified and estimated. The objective is to estimate the extent …. The analysis is disaggregated by beef cut and form to capture the variation by beef market segments. The results indicate … five chilled beef categories. …

Consumer-level hedonic models are estimated to determine factors affecting retail pork and beef meat cuts. Results … meat cuts carrying the same brand name. Product size discounts are linear for beef and nonlinear for pork, meat items on …

The effects of various supply and demand shifts on beef price, quantity, and industry welfare have been widely studied … under the assumption of beef quality homogeneity. In this paper, we construct a model of the beef sector that incorporates … differences in beef quality. The model is used to analyze the effect of supply and demand shifts on changes in prices and …

beef or beef produced with organic grains. A hedonic model is used to value attributes of 11 different primal cuts. Results … rather than high-quality grading animals. Consumers of this beef value taste, as measured by dry aging, and leanness, as …

In order to estimate demand elasticities of source differentiated beef in South Korea, this study used the quantity of … an endogenous demand system derived through maximizing the economic welfare of market participants including local beef … consumers and local and foreign beef suppliers. The demand system is then weighted with respect to quality adjustment parameters …

determine the potential success of a stand-alone retail outlet selling “all natural†beef in an affluent area of Jackson, MS …. Using choice-based conjoint analysis, demand for the new retail outlet is modeled as a function of the beef price at the … price of beef at substitute grocery stores. Simulation results suggest the proposed outlet could be a profitable venture …

Scientists and beef industry participants are investigating ways to improve the healthiness of beef. We report results … of a nationwide mail survey developed to determine consumers’ preferences for fat content in ground beef and identify … how consumers would most like to improve the healthiness of beef. The results from a choice-based conjoint experiment …

to beef ribeye steaks, chicken breasts, and pork chops, all labeled as “Certified U.S.†products. A consumer survey …