In spite of media reports to the contrary, the higher corn prices have not impacted the retail price of meat and milk - yet. Through mid-2008 supplies of beef, pork, poultry and milk are all higher than they were a year earlier and producers are absorbing the loss from higher feed costs....

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Beef cowherds are capital-intensive enterprises and should be viewed as other capital investments. Beef cowherd owners can benefit from incorporating price signals into their heifer retention decisions.

Risk is defined as the chance of an unfavorable outcome. This simple definition means that we focus on the "bad" things that may or may not happen (lower selling prices, higher input prices, high mortality or morbidity).

This research extends Preston and Elam's earlier work by using meta-analysis to combine information from over 170 research trials evaluating pharmaceutical technologies in the cow-calf, stocker and feedlot segments of beef production. These results were used to estimate the economic value of...

Source-verified (SV) feeder cattle auctions were held in Bloomfield, Iowa, each October, November, and December from 1997-2000. This study compares price data from these SV auctions to traditional auctions at the same loation to determine whether a premium exists for SV feeder cattle. Hedonic...

Changing Structure and Contracting Systems in the U.S. Pork Sector

After controlling a variety of feeder cattle characteristics and market and sale conditions, we estimate the price premiums for preconditioning (vaccinations and minimum 30 days weaning) claims with and without third-party certification (TPC) as $6.15/cwt and $3.40/cwt, respectively, in Iowa...

During the 2002 Farm Bill debate, several pieces of legislation were aimed at restricting packers' livestock purchasing practices. A specific concern focused on marketing arrangements that gave packers control over livestock more than 14 days prior to slaughter, commonly known as "captive...

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