Loss and Damage in Handling and Transporting Hogs

Joseph E. Rickenbacker

No 312440, Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program

Abstract: Excerpts from the report Summary: Loss and damage to hogs associated with handling and transportation in marketing and processing are estimated at $22.6 million a year, based on average prices prevailing over the years 1957-59. This national figure includes losses due to death in transit, condemnations of carcasses and primal cuts, and carcass bruise damage. A series of four handling and transportation tests were conducted by Farmer Cooperative Service beginning in April 1959. These determined the extent of such losses and explored the relationship they might have to handling conditions and practices ordinarily prevailing in the movement of hogs from concentration points to slaughter.

Keywords: Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40
Date: 1961-01
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.312440

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