Alberta Consumers' Valuation of extrinsic and intrinsic red meat attributes: A choice experimental approach

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 171-189

  Steiner, Bodo ^a   Gao, Fei ^b   Unterschultz, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Piccadilly Communications   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISON; BOS;

EID: 77953664038     PISSN: 00083976     EISSN: 17447976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7976.2009.01177.x     Document Type: Article

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