The livestock broker makes and maintains contact with individual producers in an attempt to purchase excess young stock or cull animals. The livestock broker will often travel large distances organizing, concentrating, and delivering large numbers of live goats to slaughtering facilities near major markets. The second type of brokers found in the Minnesota goat meat marketing channel is the meat broker. His or her source of product may come from an importer, an auction market, or a livestock broker. The number of meat brokers, like the number of livestock brokers, is limited.
Prices paid by meat brokers for domestic meat is related to current import prices.
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