FARM-RETAIL PRICE SPREADS FOR BEEF IN SOUTH AFRICA

Farm-Retail Price Spreads in a Changing Economy

a model of iran’s farm-retail marketing margin for beef

high and increasing beef marketing margin leads one to controversy about factors affecting it. this study using the monthly data for the 1998-2005 period to investigate the market power and to estimate how farm and marketing services supplies and retail demand determinants can affect beef marketing margin. the results show that farm, marketing services and retail level prices and thereby ma...

California Farm-Retail Milk Price Relationships

Milk pricing in California is often controversial. Consumer advocates and their organizations periodically charge that retail milk prices are “unfair” or “too high” and call for public intervention in the fluid-milk market. The consumer view is expressed by Consumers Union, which after conducting surveys of retail milk prices in Los Angeles and San Francisco area food stores, charged that large...

Impacts of corn price and imported beef price on domestic beef price in South Korea

South Korea is one of the largest beef importing countries in the world. Australia, USA, and New Zealand provide the majority of beef they import. The objective of this study is to evaluate the price relationship of Korean cattle and corn, prices of the imported beef and corn, and prices of Korean cattle and imported beef. We examine threshold points using threshold vector autoregressive (TVAR)...

Occurrence and Antibiotic Resistance of Listeria monocytogenes in Retail Minced Beef Distributed in Ahvaz, South-West of Iran

Background: Listeria monocytogenes is one of the most important food-borne bacteria causing septicemia, meningitis and encephalitis in humans. The objective of this study was to evaluate the occurrence and antibiotic resistance of the bacterium in retail minced beef in Ahvaz, South-West of Iran. Methods: In this survey, 150 samples of minced beef were randomly obtained from retail butcheries i...