Marion, Bruce W.; Geithman, Frederick E. - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 1994
Since 1977, the U.S. beef packing industry has been restructured at a pace unprecedented in large American industries. By 1987, four packers slaughtered over two-thirds of all steers and heifers. In the thirteen regional feedlot-packer markets studied here, the four leading packers slaughtered...
