@article{Trienekens:100470,
      recid = {100470},
      author = {Trienekens, Jacques H.},
      title = {Matching Diverse (Quality of) Supply with Market  Differentiation Opportunities in the Pork Chain},
      address = {2010-10},
      number = {1018-2016-81680},
      pages = {9},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {Currently, in most pork chains there is still a mismatch  between delivered quality and
expected quality, leading to  unsatisfied customers and value losses because products are  not
sold against the best possible price. Differentiation  of quality of pork starts already in the
breeding stage,  depends on feeding and living conditions of the animals at  the farmer stage
and is also influenced by the way the  animals are transported and slaughtered. At the
breeding  stage a lot of research is being done that will eventually  make it possible to use DNA
technology to help guide  breeding programs and to better predict the quality of  animals and
meat. However, because pigs are living  creatures with a natural variation, 100%  prediction
accuracy is not to be expected and  slaughterhouses still will have to cope with a  large
variation in quality characteristics, even within  batches that come from the same farmer.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/100470},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.100470},
}