Concerns surrounding horizontal concentration, vertical coordination, regional procurement
areas, and resultant thinly traded input markets have beset the US beef industry for decades …

Despite its importance in many decisions throughout agriculture, limited empirical work has
quantified how changes in primary demand impact producers operating at different levels of …

Transmission of prices, profits, and more generally, economic well‐being across vertically
connected sectors of agriculture have a long history of interest—arguably of most current …

The objective of the study was to assess the profitability of suckler cow herds located in
different regions of the Czech Republic. Data on 2164 suckler cows were collected for 2013 …

Concerns surrounding horizontal concentration, vertical coordination, regional procurement
areas, and resultant thinly traded input markets have beset the US beef industry for decades …

This article updates and extends the understanding of US feeder cattle price determi-nants.
Structural change in the summer of 2008 was identified, with both calf and year-ling markets …

Genetic testing is one way that feeder cattle producers can credibly signal quality to buyers.
However, quality signaling in the presence of asymmetric information typically requires …

Fattened bulls are the main source of beef in the Czech Republic (CR) and in most other EU
countries. Profitability of fattening operations is a fundamental prerequisite for increasing …

The conventional estimation method of the pricing-to-market (the PTM) model in the
international trade literature is a within model of panel regression of export prices on …

The US beef industry is comprised of multiple, vertically connected segments. Beginning at
the cow-calf level, cattle move through the industry to backgrounding/stocker operations …