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The livestock industry is made up many thousands of producers, marketers, and processors of animal products, coordinated through mechanisms ranging from spot market sales to contracting to vertically integrated corporations. ERS experts provide analyses, research, and data on the activity and performance of the industry and on its changing structure.
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Interstate Livestock
Movements analyzes livestock marketing patterns. As part of
the overall meat production system, livestock movements affect profits
for livestock owners, what consumers pay at the supermarket and
restaurant, and potential for spread of animal diseases.
Economic and Structural Relationships
in U.S. Hog Production describes an industry becoming increasingly
concentrated among fewer and larger farms, and becoming more economically
efficient. Of paramount concern are increasing market control and
power concentrated among packers and large hog operations, and the
manure management problem posed by an increasing concentration of
hog manure on fewer operations.
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updated: October 7, 2003
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