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Abstract
This is the second of two articles on a survey of cattle and hog marketing practices of Iowa
livestock farmers conducted in the spring of 1952 by the Statistical Laboratory of Iowa State
College in cooperation with the Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service and the Agricultural
Estimates Division, Agricultural Marketing Service. Part of the study was intended
to evaluate the use of a new mail survey, initiated in Iowa, on farmers' marketing intentions.
The earlier paper' gave results on the use made by farm operators of the monthly releases.
This paper examines the sources of marketing information available to the same livestock
farmers, and looks into some aspects of farm operators' habits and practices in marketing
selected lots of livestock.