Cattle feeding in western Canada: The economics of its location

Colin Carter and Andrew Schmitz

Agribusiness, 1986, vol. 2, issue 1, 119-135

Abstract: The major objective of this paper is to identify and evaluate those economic factors which have influenced the development and continuing concentration of the Canadian prairie feedlot industry in southern Alberta. Irrigation, the marketing infrastructure, and local investors are identified as being major determinants of the location of the prairie feedlot industry.

Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1002/1520-6297(198621)2:1<119::AID-AGR2720020111>3.0.CO;2-R

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