"Pork Marketing in the 21st Century: A Consumer-Focused, Value-Driven Food Chain." Proceedings, Saskatchewan Pork Industry Symposium, November 12-13, 1998, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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The US pork and beef sectors are rapidly moving from traditional cash markets to formal vertical linkages. In 1999, 27% of Hogs and 65% of cattle were traded in the cash market and packers owned 18% of hogs and 5% of cattle; the rest were procured via marketing contracts. Contrary to popular...

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Source verification and pooling of feeder cattle into larger lots resulted in higher selling prices compared to more typical sales at a southern Iowa auction market. After higher prices due to larger lot sizes were accounted for, cattle that received a specified management program and were...

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In the United States (U.S.), there is no uniform traceability regulation across food sector. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implemented one-step back and one-step forward traceability over the industries under its jurisdiction. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which oversees meat,...

Participants in U.S. markets for live cattle increasingly rely on federal grading standards to price slaughtered animals. This change is due to the growing prominence of ﾓgridﾔ pricing mechanisms that specify explicit premiums and discounts contingent on an animal's graded quality...

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