Comparing Canadian and U.S. Cattle Feeding Pricing Practices and Perceptions of Pricing Issues

Competition among beef packing firms, use of so-called captive supply, and methods of price discovery have been prolonged, contentious issues in the U.S. beef industry for two decades or more. While of lesser apparent concern in Canada for many years, these same matters rose to the forefront of beef industry issues after the Canadaâ€“U.S. border closure that resulted from Canadaâ€™s first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in May 2003.

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Ward, Clement E. ; Carlberg, Jared G. ; Brocklebank, Andrea
Published in:	CAFRI: Current Agriculture, Food and Resource Issues. - Canadian Agricultural Economics Society - CAES. - 2007, 08
Publisher:	Canadian Agricultural Economics Society - CAES
Subject:	Marketing

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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