This dissertation studies the demand for imported and domestic demand models for meat and livestock. The first essay … domestic and imported livestock by the US meat processing industry and explores the existence of long-run relationships in the … livestock. The third essay investigates the impact of the discovery BSE in Canadian cattle on the imported and domestic demand …

information generated through a formal survey conducted in the major pastoral livestock markets of Ethiopia with 128 collectors … season as important determinants of livestock price formation. Age group and body condition of the traded animals, buyer and … seller types are also important observable attributes influencing formation of livestock prices. …

of the major polluters in the U.S. – commercial agriculture. As livestock production has become increasingly mobile … particular importance to upcoming federal regulation of large-scale livestock production under the Clean Air Act. By exploiting …