Slaughter-cattle pricing and procurement practices of meatpackers
By: Clement E. Ward.
Contributors: United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service.
Series: Agriculture information bulletin ; no. 432; Agriculture information bulletin -- no. 432.
Publisher: Dept. of Agriculture, Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service
Published: 1979
Place of publication: [Washington]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Cattle trade -- United States.; Meat industry and trade -- United States.
Description: Cattle pricing is part of the overall procurement process packers use to obtain the types of cattle that will produce beef to satisfy customers. pp. Meatpackers gather information from published price reports, internal operations, customers, other packers, and many other sources. The head buyer then sets an overall buy order from which field buyers negotiate with individual producers, taking account of cattle characteristics, ability of seller to negotiate, competition from other packers, transportation, and other factors.
Notes: Issued Dec. 1979.

Bibliography: p. 27.