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Prairie Swine Centre is an affiliate of the University of Saskatchewan
Prairie Swine Centre is grateful for the assistance of the George Morris Centre in developing the economics portion of Pork Insight.
Financial support for the Enterprise Model Project and Pork Insight has been provided by:
Our study focuses on the effects of changing
meat packer and farm-level technologies on real
beef and pork farm-wholesale marketing margins
and on livestock prices. Results indicate cost savings
from meatpacking technologies increase real
livestock prices, while technological changes at the
farm level reduce real livestock prices. On balance,
the positive effect from meatpacking technology outweighs the negative effect of farm-level technological
change.
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