Looking beyond value-based pricing of beef in North America

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 214-222

  Tronstad, Russell ^a   Unterschultz, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal feed; Canada; Livestock; Meat; Supply chain management; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944443581     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13598540510606278     Document Type: Article

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