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| Title: | Wholesale-Retail Marketing Margin Behavior in the Beef and Pork Industries |
| Authors: | Marsh, John M.
Brester, Gary W. |
| Keywords: | livestock prices
retail concentration
retail costs
wholesale-retail marketing margins |
| Issue Date: | 2004-04 |
| Abstract: | An econometric model is used to estimate real wholesale-retail marketing margins for beef and pork. From 1970 to 1998, these margins increased by 27% and 149%, while farm-wholesale margins declined. Wholesale-retail (WR) marketing margin increases have caused livestock producers to focus on the retail sector as a contributor to declining real livestock prices. Increases in WR margins may be related to increased demand and costs of value-added food products/services as well as increased market concentration in the retail grocery sector. Results indicate that retail factors, and to a lesser extent meat processing factors, significantly increased WR margins and decreased livestock prices. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/31139 |
| Institution/Association: | Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics>Volume 29, Number 01, April 2004 |
| Total Pages: | 20 |
| Language: | English |
| From Page: | 45 |
| To Page: | 64 |
| Collections: | Volume 29, Number 01, April 2004
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