Small Beef-packer Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence and Policy Implications

Azzeddine Azzam, Sunil P. Dhoubadel and Binod Khanal

No 413220, Cornhusker Economics from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics

Abstract: As part of a larger research project on the economics of beef supply chain resilience to natural disasters, financed in part by a grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, we obtained information from 289 processing plants across the United States about their operations during the peak COVID-19 period of March to June 2020 via a telephone survey. We collected data on plant type (slaughter, processing, both), the dominant livestock processed by the plant (predominantly beef, pork, poultry, and sheep/goat), plant capacity (maximum and typical capacity in slaughter head/day), age of establishment, and, whether the plant ceased, reduced, maintained, or increased slaughter during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: Livestock; Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.413220

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