Consolidation in the Meat Sector

February 24 & 25, 1999
Washington, DC

	Conference Executive Summary
	Conference Program (A paper copy of the proceedings is available from the Food Marketing Policy Center)

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Thursday, February 25th Conference Introduction and Overview Welcome & Opening Remarks "Packer Concentration, Captive Supplies, and Their Impacts: A Review" Clement E. Ward, Oklahoma State

Concentration and Monopsony in Cattle Markets "Cost Economies and Market Power in the U.S. Beef Packing Industry: A Plant Level Analysis" Catherine Morrison Paul (UC/Davis) "Empirical Monopsony Power Measurement in Beef Packing" H. Alan Love (Texas A&M), Diana Burton (Texas A&M), Kellie Curry Raper (Michigan State), and C. Richard Shumway (Washington State) "Scale Economies, Product Innovation, and Consolidation in Cattle Slaughter" James M. MacDonald, Michael E. Ollinger, Kenneth E. Nelson, and Charles R. Handy (ERS/USDA)

Pollution, Regulation, and Consolidation in Livestock Production "Industrialized Animal Agriculture: Financial, Environmental, and Social Sustainability-Framing the Issues" Laura Martin (Michigan State) "Analysis of Swine Industry Expansion in the U.S.: The Effect of Environmental Regulation" Charles Abdalla (Penn State) "State and Local Government Responses to Locational Shifts in Animal Production" Patricia Norris (Michigan State)

Alternative Ways to Evaluate Market Power "Meatpacking Firm Mergers: Empirical Impacts in an Experimental Market for Fed Cattle" Clement E. Ward and Jong-in Lee (Oklahoma State) "Private Versus Social Incentives for Vertical Integration and its Implication for Product Differentiation and Market Concentration: The Case of the U.S. Food Industry" Rimjhim M. Aggarwal (University of Maryland)

Friday, February 26th Vertical Coordination in the Hog Sector "Dramatic Changes Occurring in U. S. Pork Production and Marketing Systems" John Lawrence (Iowa State), Glenn Grimes (U/Missouri), and Marvin Hayenga (Iowa State) "Coordination Mechanisms in the Canadian and Dutch Pork Industries" Raman Srivastava, Agriculture Canada "Estimating Backward Integration in a Primary Input Market: The Case of the US Pork Industry" James Pritchett and Donald Liu, University of Minnesota

Structural Change in the Hog Sector "Regional Shifts in Pork Production: Implications for Regional Competition and Food Safety" Hayri Onal, Laurian Unnevehr, and Aleksandr Bekric (University of Illinois) "Scale Economies and Consolidation in Hog Slaughter" James M. MacDonald and Michael E. Ollinger (USDA/ERS)

The Dynamics of Cattle and Beef Prices "Price Transmission, Asymmetric Adjustment, and Structural Change in the US Livestock Sector" Barry K. Goodwin and Matthew T. Holt (North Carolina State University) "Competitiveness in Beef Markets: Time Series Evidence" Robert D. Weaver, Penn State University "Beef Cattle Markets: The Cattle Cycle, Price Spreads and Market Concentration in the U.S. Beef Industry" Ken Mathews, Bill Hahn, Ken Nelson, and Larry Duewer (USDA/ERS)

Closing Remarks