Impacts from captive supplies on fed cattle transaction prices

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 494-514

  Ward, Clement E ^a   Koontz, Stephen R ^b   Schroeder, Ted C ^c  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Captive supplies; Fed cattle; Forward contracts; Marketing agreements; Packer feeding; Price analysis; Price discovery; Procurement methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032283063     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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