ECONOMICS OF ALTERNATIVE BEEF DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS

Jose L. Diaz, Donald E. Farris and Kerry Litzenberg

No 278512, 1985 Annual Meeting, August 4-7, Ames, Iowa from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: To estimate the least cost marketing, five alternative beef distribution systems were budgeted for ten regions in the State of Texas, and analyzed by a nnati-dimension linear programming model. Boxed beef was clearly the leading system, accounting for 75 percent of volume; but due to varying wage rates, all five systems were in least cost solutions. including centrally packaged retail cuts. Cost differences were small, therefore, other considerations can dominate the choice of systems.

Keywords: Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17
Date: 1985-08
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.278512

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