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Cattle feeding in western Canada: The economics of its location

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  • Colin A. Carter

    (Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Manitoba)

  • Andrew Schmitz

    (Professor at the University of California at Berkeley)

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The major objective of this paper is to identify and evaluate those economic factors which have influenced the development and continuing concentration of the Canadian prairie feedlot industry in southern Alberta. Irrigation, the marketing infrastructure, and local investors are identified as being major determinants of the location of the prairie feedlot industry.

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  • Colin A. Carter & Andrew Schmitz, 1986. "Cattle feeding in western Canada: The economics of its location," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 2(1), pages 119-135.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:agribz:v:2:y:1986:i:1:p:119-135
    DOI: 10.1002/1520-6297(198621)2:1<119::AID-AGR2720020111>3.0.CO;2-R
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    1. Jason Wood & James Nolan, 2021. "Plant location decisions in the ethanol industry: a dynamic and spatial analysis," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 58(1), pages 103-132, June.

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