Preferential Cattle and Hog Pricing by Packers: Evidence from Mandatory Price Reports

Clement Ward

No 37989, 2008 Annual Meeting, June 23-24, 2008, Big Sky, Montana from Western Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: Preferential pricing was one of several concerns leading to mandatory price reporting. Seven years of “new” data from mandatory reports are examined to determine if evidence exists of preferential pricing by packers for fed cattle and slaughter hogs. Weekly data show some alternative marketing methods track closer to cash market prices than others. Some differences can be explained, while others are not as clear. Evidence was found that cash prices lead prices for alternative marketing methods on rising markets but trail them on declining markets.

Keywords: Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16
Date: 2008-06
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.37989

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