Cow/calf producers operating in the Dakotas were surveyed on their price discovery strategies, marketing channel preferences, and their perceptions of how regime change in the public price reporting system for fed cattle affected the beef industry in general and the cow/calf industry in...

Cow/calf producers operating in the Dakotas were surveyed on their price discoverystrategies, marketing channel preferences, and their perceptions of how regimechange in the public price reporting system for fed cattle affected the beef industryin general and the cow/calf industry in particular....

Legislative authorization for the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 was renewed in October of 2006. One of the cited justifications for implementing mandatory reporting was that the voluntary reporting system for the slaughter cattle cash market was unable to provide accurate and timely...

Legislative authorization for the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 was renewed in October of 2006. One of the cited justifications for implementing mandatory reporting was that the voluntary reporting system for the slaughter cattle cash market was unable to provide accurate and timely...

Building on the 1997 work of Chezum and Wimmer, and the 1998 work of Lansford, Freeman, Topliff, and Walker, we estimated a hedonic hammer price model on a random and representative sample of 212 yearlings from the 1999 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Explanatory variables representing day of...

Monthly observations on prices from 10 weight/gender classifications of Nebraska beef cattle are studied in an error correction model (ECM) framework. This study attempts a replication of the 2003 paper on Texas prices by Bessler and Davis, where they find medium heifers (600–700 lb) at...

Preferential pricing was one of several concerns leading to mandatory price reporting. Seven years of “new” data from mandatory reports are examined to determine if evidence exists of preferential pricing by packers for fed cattle and slaughter hogs. Weekly data show some alternative...

No Distrito Federal, a atividade avícola alternativa é formada por arranjos produtivos e comerciais os quais utilizam, ou não, intermediários nas transações entre fornecedores e consumidores. O propósito do artigo é analisar os custos de transação na distribuição e compara as...

We model Boston fluid milk market after taking into account strategic interactions of the processors and retailers and estimate it using monthly propriety retail scanner data and other data from public sources from 1996 to 2000. Market demand is modeled using flexible nested logit demand system...

No Distrito Federal, a atividade avícola alternativa é formada por arranjos produtivos e comerciais os quais utilizam, ou não, intermediários nas transações entre fornecedores e consumidores. O propósito do artigo é analisar os custos de transação na distribuição e compara as...