- Alliances
and Vertical Arrangements
Clement E. Ward, Oklahoma State University, 2002
Strategic alliances and various types of formal vertical
arrangements have been of particular interest in the beef industry in
recent years. Some believe these arrangements are the beef industry's
answer to a long-term decline in beef demand, unclear price signals, and .
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- Beef Industry Price
Discovery: A Look Ahead
Ted C. Schroeder, Clement E. Ward, James Mintert, and Derrell S.
Peel, Kansas State University Research & Extension, February 1997
Because buyers and sellers discover prices on the basis of uncertain
expectations, transaction prices fluctuate around that market price level.
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Captive Supplies and Their Impacts
Clement E. Ward and Ted C. Schroeder, Oklahoma Cooperative
Extension Service
This fact sheet defines captive supplies, provides information on the level
and trends in recent years, gives reasons why buyers and sellers use captive supplies, and
reports on research attempting to determine their impacts.
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- Cattle
Identification—The Canadian Experience
James Unterschultz, University of Alberta and
Darren Chase, Alberta Agriculture Food and Rural Development; 2002
Canadian experience with new trace back requirements in the
beef and dairy industry is just beginning. Canadian beef and dairy
producers are implementing a national identification ear-tag program
capable of tracing animals from the retail sector back to the original . .
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- Cattle
Marketing and Food Safety
Neal H. Hooker and Brian Roe, The Ohio State
University; 2002
Common sense suggests and statistical research confirms
that lapses in the management of food safety along the cattle-beef supply
chain create many negative consequences for society. Consumers are put at
a higher risk of foodborne illness or other types of contamination . . .
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- Cattle Price
Seasonality
Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University and Steve
Meyer, Livestock Marketing Information Center, 2002
Seasonal price patterns are normal price movements or
fluctuations that occur within a year. Recognizing the presence and
magnitude of seasonal price patterns can improve many cattle producer
marketing and production management decisions.
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- Electronic Marketing in
Oklahoma: Experiences and Opportunities
Clement E. Ward and James R. Russell, Oklahoma Cooperative
Extension Service
Electronic markets can: (1) expose farm products to several buiyers: (2)
facilitate competitive bidding among buyers: and (3) provide complete market information
about each transaction between buyers and sellers.
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- Fed Cattle Grid Pricing
Ted C. Schroeder and Ernest E. Davis, Texas Agricultural Extension
Service, December 1998
Value-based marketing refers to pricing cattle on an individual animal basis.
Prices differ according to the underlying value of beef and by-products produced from each
animal.
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- Fed Cattle Pricing
Dillon M. Feuz, Ted C. Schroeder and Clement E. Ward, University of
Nebraska Cooperative Extension, May 1998
This NebGuide will provide answers to these and other questions about fed
cattle pricing. Pricing fed cattle is becoming more complex, requiring more time to
evaluate pricing alternatives and marketing cattle.
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- Fed Cattle Quality: How Does
It Affect Prices Recieved by Cattle Feeders?
James R. Mintert, Frank K. Brazle, Ted C. Schroeder, Rodney Jones
and Martin L. Albright, Kansas State University Research & Extension, July 1993
The manner in which fed cattle are priced is significant because pricing on
averages instead of adjusting prices to reflect changes in wholesale and retail values
sends the wrong information to cattle producers.
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- Feeding and
Marketing Cull Cows
Dillon M. Feuz, South Dakota State University, 1996
Cull cows often are overlooked as an important source of income to the
cow-calf enterprise.
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- Focus on Beef Demand
James Mintert, Ted Schroeder and Tom Marsh,
Kansas State University, 2002
Consumer demand for beef increased modestly during 1999,
2000, and 2001, which generated considerable interest in the cattle
industry.
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- Grid Base Prices and
Premium-Discounts Over Time
Clement E. Ward, Oklahoma State University; Ted
C. Schroeder, Kansas State University; and Dillon M. Feuz, University of
Nebraska; 2002
The previous fact sheet (Understanding
Grid Pricing) included an example of grid pricing and some of the
implications from using grid pricing. The objective of this extension
facts is to better distinguish formula pricing and grid pricing, discuss
price discovery implications . . .
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- Industry
Opportunities and Some issues for Value Based Marketing
Russell Tronstad, University of Arizona and James
Unterschultz, University of Alberta; 2002
Grid pricing is commonly associated with value based marketing because
each animal's price is based on individual quality and yield grades rather
than group or pen averages.
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- Issues to
Consider When Selling Cattle on a Grid or Formula
Dillon M. Feuz, University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension, April
1998
Recently there has been a much greater emphasis on improving the quality and
consistency of beef. Cattle producers, breed associations, feed suppliers and beef packers
have initiated value based pricing methods.
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Livestock Risk Protection for
Lamb in Utah
John P. Hewlett* and James B. Johnson Agricultural
Marketing Policy Center, Montana State University Cooperative Extension
Service, November 2010.
* University of Wyoming Extension Educator
Federally-subsidized yield and/or revenue insurance products
for crops are offered in many counties in Utah. Historically,
federally-subsidized offerings of livestock-related risk management
products have been limited to crops produced for livestock feed and, for
a short time, a dairy options pilot program. In September 2006 the Risk
Management Agency (RMA) approved a price risk management product for
lamb. This insurance product will be available for purchase in every
Utah county . . .
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- Livestock Risk Protection for
Lamb in Wyoming: A Preliminary Review
James B. Johnson and John P. Hewlett* Agricultural
Marketing Policy Center, Montana State University Cooperative Extension
Service, August 2007.
* University of Wyoming Extension Educator
Federally-subsidized yield and/or revenue insurance products
for crops are offered in many counties in Wyoming. Historically,
federally-subsidized offerings of livestock-related risk management
products have been limited to crops produced for livestock feed and, for
a short time, a dairy options pilot program. In September 2006 the Risk
Management Agency (RMA) approved a price risk management product for
lamb. This insurance product will be available for purchase in every
Wyoming county . . .
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- Livestock Risk
Protection for Fed Cattle in Wyoming
James B. Johnson and John P. Hewlett*
Agricultural Marketing Policy Center, Montana State University Cooperative
Extension Service, May, 2006.
* University of Wyoming Extension Educator
Federally-subsidized yield and/or revenue crop
insurance products are offered in many counties in Wyoming. LRP-Fed Cattle
is designed to insure against declining market prices for fed cattle.
Specifically, the producer is insured against a decline in national fed
cattle prices below an established coverage price.
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- Livestock Risk
Protection for Swine in Wyoming
James B. Johnson and John P. Hewlett*
Agricultural Marketing Policy Center, Montana State University Cooperative
Extension Service, May, 2006.
* University of Wyoming Extension Educator
Federally-subsidized yield and/or revenue crop
insurance products are offered in many counties in Wyoming. LRP-Swine is
designed to insure against declining market prices for hogs. Specifically,
a producer can insure against a decline in national hog prices below an
established coverage price. . . .
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- Livestock Market
Terms, Part I
Allen C. Wellman, University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension,
June 1996
The first of a series of three, this NebGuide defines and categorizes general
livestock and dressed meat terms, and different market types and marketing systems.
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- Livestock Market
Terms, Part II
Allen C. Wellman, University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension,
June 1996
The second in a series of three, this NebGuide defines terminology used in
general market and futures market reports.
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- Livestock Market Terms,
Part III
Allen C. Wellman, University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension,
June 1996
The third in a series of three, this NebGuide discusses livestock grading
terms for both live animals and carcasses.
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- Niche Marketing of
Cattle/Beef
Emmit Rawls, University of Tennessee, Lee Meyer
and Kenny Burdine, University of Kentucky; 2002
Niche marketing has been defined as servicing a unique
market, or a unique portion of a common market, that is not already
served. Some niche markets begin with an individual filling a personal
desire that is not being met with existing products.
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Prescriptions for a Healthy Beef Industry
Wayne D. Purcell, Virginia Tech, 2002
The title suggests that there have been problems in the
beef sector or that it has somehow been "ill." Actually, that is the case.
The data show that demand for beef decreased each year from 1980 through
1998. The reasons for that longstanding decline have been widely . . .
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- Price
Determination versus Price Discovery
Clement E. Ward and Ted C. Schroeder, Oklahoma
State University, 2002
This fact sheet distinguishes between Price Determination and Price
Discovery, identifies how they are interrelated, and provides an indication when price
discovery concerns may increase.
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- Price
Determination versus Price Discovery
Clement E. Ward and Ted C. Schroeder, Oklahoma State University,
1996
This fact sheet distinguishes between Price Determination and Price
Discovery, identifies how they are interrelated, and provides an indication when price
discovery concerns may increase.
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- Profitable
Cattle Marketing for the Cow-Calf Producer
John C. McKissick, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension
Service, June 1992
Profitable cattle marketing means producing the most profitable calf, selling
through the most profitable market outlet and pricing at the most profitable time.
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- Profitability
Differences Between Steers and Heifers
Christopher L. Williams, Michael R. Langemeier, James Mintert and
Ted C. Schroeder, Kansas State University Research & Extension, August 1993
Differences in sale price, feeder price, feed conversion, and average daily
gain all help explain variation in feeding profit differences between steers and heifers.
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- Retained Ownership
Budget Templates User's Guide
A. Lee Meyer and John D. Anderson, University of Kentucky, October
1998
Retained Ownership Online provides resources to help managers get information
and make profitable decisions about backgrounding, grazing, preconditioning and finishing
cattle.
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- Retaining
Ownership of Calves or Yearlings
Paul Q. Guyer, University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension,
November 1985
Retaining ownership of weanlings or yearlings through to slaughter is a
management and/or marketing option that can add to the profits of the calf producer or
cattle grower.
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- Retained
Ownership of Cattle: Factors to Consider
John M. Marsh Montana State University and Dillon Feuz
University of Nebraska, 2002
Retained ownership (holding cattle longer than would “normally” be
the case) is one action some producers take in response to low prices at the time they
would normally sell their cattle (calves).
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- Retained
Ownership of Cattle: Factors to Consider
Gene Murra, Dillon Feuz and John M. Marsh, South Dakota State
University, 1996
Retained ownership (holding cattle longer than would “normally” be
the case) is one action some producers take in response to low prices at the time they
would normally sell their cattle (calves).
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- Retained
Ownership in Cattle Cycles
John C. McKissick and John Ikerd, The University of Georgia, 1996
If profits and losses in each phase of production are not significantly
related, cow-calf producers may be able to avoid or minimize losses in low price times by
shifting into other phases of production or through retained ownership alternatives.
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- Retained
Ownership Strategies for Cattlemen
Ernest E. Davis, James McGrann and James Mintert, Texas
Agricultural Extension Service, August 1998
Market integration, or retained ownership, involves carrying over a
production activity into the next phase of preparation for the marketplace.
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- Risk Management
Options for Wyoming Ranchers
James B. Johnson, Vincent H. Smith and John P. Hewlett*, Agricultural
Marketing Policy Center, Montana State University Cooperative Extension
Service, January 2009.
* University of Wyoming Extension Educator
Ranchers and farmers know they are involved in risky enterprises
and use many tools to manage risk. This bulletin describes the crop,
forage and livestock insurance products available to Wyoming ranch
operations and presents simulations of the effects of alternative risk
management strategies for representative large and small Wyoming
ranches. These strategies involve different combinations of the
following insurance products that are available in Wyoming: AGR-Lite,
Actual Production History (APH), Crop Revenue Coverage (CRC), Group Risk
Protection (GRP), Livestock Risk Protection (LRP), Livestock Gross
Margin (LGM), and Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF).
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South Dakota Stocker Cattle Prices
Matthew A. Diersen, Extension Risk and Business
Management Specialist, South Dakota State University, 2003
Producers are concerned about the general price level of
stock cattle, weaned calves weighing about 500 pounds. Producers observe a
wide range of reported prices for any given sale. Aggregating prices
usually just compounds the problem as an even wider . . .
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- Structural
Changes in Cattle Feeding and Meat Packing
Clement E. Ward, Oklahoma State University and
Ted C. Schroeder, Kansas State University, 2002
Cattle feedlots and meatpacking plants have both declined
in number and increased in size. However, in comparison, concentration has
increased at a much more rapid pace in meatpacking than in cattle feeding.
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- Taking Your
Beef Cow Herd Profitably Through the Cattle Cycle
Harlan Hughes, North Dakota State University; Lee
Meyer, University of Kentucky; Tim Cross, University of Tennessee; and
Dwight Aakre, North Dakota State University; 2002
The key to surviving the cattle inventory cycle, and its
resulting price cycle (cattle and beef), is to first increase the economic
efficiency of your beef cowherd during the good times.
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- The Cattle
Cycle
David P. Anderson, James G. Robb and James Mintert, Livestock
Marketing Information Center, 1996
Cycles are a well known and often discussed feature of the cattle business.
Improved knowledge of the cattle inventory cycle can be helpful for long-run planning as
you evaluate the direction your business should take in the future.
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- The
Evolution of Identity Preservation in Red Meat Markets
DeeVon Bailey, Utah State University and Demot
Hayes, Iowa State University; 2002
Agriculture is challenged by the fact that product from
many producers is routinely co-mingled prior to sale. In this environment
there is little incentive to innovate, or to differentiate and often a
counter-incentive to improve quality.
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- The Impact of Corn and Fed
Cattle Prices on Feeder Cattle Price Slides
Kevin Dhuyvetter, Kansas State University; Ted
Schroeder, Kansas State University; and Walt Prevatt, Auburn University;
2002
Feeder cattle price determination and discovery are complex
because many factors impact feed cattle markets. Feeder cattle are an
input into a production process; therefore, feeder cattle demand is
influenced by all the factors that affect future anticipated demand . . .
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- The New Beef Industry:
What Will It Mean to Feeder Cattle Producers?
Chris Bastian, University of Wyoming, 2002
One can rarely pick up a livestock magazine or a
cattle-related article without reading some reference to how the bee
industry is changing. This of course is not a new message. We live in a
changing world, and the beef industry must continually change to meet the
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- Today's
Changing Meat Industry and Tomorrow's Beef Sector
Chris Bastian, DeeVon Bailey, Dale J. Menkhaus and Terry F. Glover,
Arizona Cooperative Extension, September 1998
The meat industry has changed dramatically in recent years. Most notable is
the changing structures of the broiler, pork and beef sectors.
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- Understanding
Grid Pricing
Dillon M. Feuz, University of Nebraska; Clement
E. Ward, Oklahoma State University; and Ted C. Schroeder, Kansas State
University; 2002
Recently there has been a much greater emphasis on
improving the quality and consistency of beef. Cattle producers, breed
associations, feed suppliers, and beef packers have all initiated value
based pricing methods commonly referred to as grid pricing.
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- U.S. Beef Trade Issues
Gary W. Brester and John M. Marsh, Montana State
University, 2002
Nominal U.S. cattle prices generally increased throughout
the 1970s and 1980s but declined steadily throughout the 1990s. However,
real fed and feeder cattle prices have declined steadily since 1979.
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- Using Seasonal Hog
Price Patterns in Marketing
Chris Hurt, Cooperative Extension Service Purdue University, April
1989
This publication describes the seasonal price pattern, shows the reliability
of the pattern, illustrates how much prices change, and provides some examples of how to
use seasonal price information.
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