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The effect of animal gender on producer marketing behaviour/

Fausti, Scott W.

The effect of animal gender on producer marketing behaviour/ created by Scott Fausti, Matthew Diersen, Bashir A. Qasmi, Jing Li and Brent Lange - Applied economics letters Volume 20, number 2 .

Weekly grid market share by volume for slaughter steers is compared with slaughter heifers. Summary statistics indicate average grid market share for steers (42%) is higher relative to heifers (33%). The literature indicates that pregnancy and increased dark cutter incidence associated with heifers relative to steers create additional financial risk when heifers are sold on a grid. Empirical evidence suggests that carcass quality risk is a plausible contributing factor to gender disparity with respect to grid market share.

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Slaughter cattle--Marketing risk--Gender

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