What Value-Added Management Programs Are Enhancing Cattle Producer Revenues?

Tina L. Saitone
from ARE Update Vol. 22, No. 5, May/Jun, 2019
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Abstract
As the quality attributes that consumers’ demand from animal-based food products have expanded, ranchers have responded by marketing their cattle with an increasingly diverse array of value-added management programs. Yet, the additional revenue generated by producing cattle tagged with these programs is uncertain and highly variable. This paper analyzes the premiums/discounts associated with the most common programs utilized by ranchers in 2018.
Keywords
Western Video Market Auction, cattle sales, cattle pricing
Citation
Tina L. Saitone. 2019. "What Value-Added Management Programs Are Enhancing Cattle Producer Revenues?" ARE Update 22(5): 1-4. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics.
https://giannini.ucop.edu/filer/file/1560199276/19171/