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Economic Evaluation of an Alternative Marketing System For Feeder Cattle in Alabama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Gregory M. Sullivan  and
Daniel A. Linton
Gregory M. Sullivan
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, and Economist-Livestock Marketing, Alabama Cooperative Extension Service
Daniel A. Linton
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, and Economist-Livestock Marketing, Alabama Cooperative Extension Service
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Extract

The marketing system for cattle in the United States has evolved with shifts from delivery to large terminal centers, to more decentralized markets. Because of innovations in transportation and processing technology, these structural changes have created a need for greater vertical coordination between different stages in the cattle marketing channels (Rhodes, p. 174; Sporleder, p. 101). Improved coordination requires appropriate market information about product supplies and the form of cattle preferred by buyers (Purcell, 1973, 1980).

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , December 1981 , pp. 85 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1981

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