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  title info:
    title: Interregional competition in the U.S. cattle feeding/fed-beef economy
    sub title: with emphasis on the southern Plains
  name:
    name part: Clary, Gregory M. (Gregory Michael)
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Dietrich, Raymond
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Farris, Donald
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Fuller, Stephen
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Sielker, Robert
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1982
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 139 leaves : map ; 29 cm
  abstract: The U.S. cattle feeding/fed-beef economy will likely face a rapidly changing economic environment as a result of escalating energy and labor costs, population increases and interregional migrations, regional variations in per capita disposable income, inflation, and highly fluctuating livestock and feed grain prices. This study utilized a multiproduct transshipment model of the U.S. cattle and beef economy to examine interregional economic relationships based on industry conditions during 1980. In addition, nine alternative models were designed to examine how changes in feed grain and feeder cattle supplies, in fed-beef demands, and in slaughter and transportation costs affect optimum feedlot and slaughter plant location and production levels. Results suggest that cattle feeding and slaughtering firms in the Southern and Central Plains, especially West Texas-West Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, enjoy considerable locational advantages due to proximity to feed grain and feeder cattle supplies, access to major fed-beef markets, and economies of size associated with the feeding and slaughter industries. Optimum feeding levels determined by the models studied indicate that Southern and Central Plains and Corn Belt feeders would continue to account for over 75 percent of all cattle fed in the U.S. assuming no dramatic adjustments in regional feedlot or slaughter plant capacities. Differences in slaughter costs, especially variable costs, between the Southern States and other major slaughter regions as the Corn Belt and Central Plains afford a competitive advantage to southern slaughter firms. The possible elimination of regional cost differences due to increased energy costs or unionization of labor supplies would result in a shifting of cattle feeding and slaughter from the Southern regions to the Central Plains and Corn Belt as revealed by results of an alternative model....
  note: "Major subject: Agricultural Economics."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Philosophy Texas A & M University 1982
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 129-133).
  subject:
    topic: Cattle
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Cattle
    topic: Feeding and feeds
  subject:
    topic: Feedlots
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Meat industry and trade
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural Economics
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 840224
    record change date: 20220103135131.0
    record identifier: in00000505708
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng