Market Coordination in the Beef Stocker Sector: Short and Long Run Implications of Higher Corn Prices

Beef industry sectors are coordinated by a relatively subtle combination of absolute price levels and price relationships across feeder cattle weights. This paper presents a conceptual framework to understand market based coordination of production in the beef industry. The paper illustrates with examples from history and discusses the implications of permanently higher corn prices.Cattle Markets, Stocker Cattle, Market Coordination, Marketing,

THE MEXICAN CATTLE AND BEEF INDUSTRY: DEMAND, PRODUCTION, AND TRADE

Livestock Production/Industries,

Implementation of Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) in the Beef Industry

Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, International Relations/Trade, Q13, Q18,

Economic Impacts of Restricted Animal Movements in Mexico Due to Increased Mexican Regional Bovine Health Criteria

Tuberculosis restrictions on animal movement have important implications for Mexican producers and consumers as well as the U.S. beef cattle industry. The restrictions cause decreased Mexican cattle exports, increased domestic fed beef production, and decreased fed beef imports. The Mexican beef industry incurs greater costs due to increased interregional cattle and meat shipments and changes in regional beef cattle production in Mexico.Livestock Production/Industries,

Cow-Calf Farm Management: Farm survey evidence from 2007

This study describes and compares cow-calf operations and assesses their relative competitiveness, developing performance measures for a sample of U.S. farms. We find that larger operations tend to be significantly more scale and technically efficient than smaller operations. However, we do not find significant differences in net farm returns by size except on medium large operations—showing virtually no net return on farm assets in 2007. While larger operations are clearly more scale and technically efficient and have lower variable costs per cow, off-farm income makes smaller operations competitive as reflected in higher household returns than all size groups--except for very large cow-calf operations.Cow-calf, performance measures, technical efficiency, Farm Management, Production Economics, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods,

2013 Cattle Market Outlook: Challenges and Opportunities

The annual Cattle report, due out on February 1, 2013, is expected to show that the total inventory of all cattle and calves in the U.S. dropped just under 90 million head, the smallest total since 1952. Total beef cows likely will be 29.4 million head, the smallest beef cow herd since 1962. The 2012 calf crop was the 17th consecutively smaller calf crop and the 2013 calf crop will be smaller still, likely the smallest total U.S. calf crop since 1942