The hog industry in Western Canada in 1960s was in a state of turmoil associated with a vague, poorly understood production and marketing problem. Hog production was largely a supplementary farm activity producing an overfat product increasingly shunned by consumers. The structure, and also...

The process of commodity grading is carried on to provide market opportunities, or to meet other market criteria. Grading systems also, however, have a cost to those who market a product. This study focuses on the interrelationship among the Canadian grain grading system, the operations of...