IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/famc94/265983.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Grading Systems in the Pork and Beef Industries

Author

Listed:
  • Hayenga, Marvin
  • Kliebenstein, James

Abstract

Government commodity grading systems have a long and sometimes controversial history in the livestock and meat industry. Historically, the only way to develop standard procedures for a very independent and fragmented group of producers and processors has been to utilize the auspices of government. Originally, the primary reason for government grading systems was to facilitate (1) more accurate identification of value-related differences in commodities being marketed for both buyers and sellers, (2) an improved competitive process, and (3) improved resource allocation (producing the "right" products) in the industry. The government grading system in the beef industry has been a frequent subject of controversy and, infrequently, changed in the last 30 years, while the pork government grading system has fallen into disuse. In this paper, we focus primarily on the pork industry grading system, its history, alternative criteria and grading approaches, and offer some recommendations. Then we discuss some related issues regarding the beef grading system and consider possible changes.

Suggested Citation

  • Hayenga, Marvin & Kliebenstein, James, 1994. "Grading Systems in the Pork and Beef Industries," Re-Engineering Marketing Policies for Food and Agriculture - FAMC 1994 Conference 265983, Food and Agricultural Marketing Consortium (FAMC).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:famc94:265983
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.265983
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/265983/files/foodAgMktgCons-041.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/265983/files/foodAgMktgCons-041.pdf?subformat=pdfa
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.265983?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Kliebenstein, James & Hayenga, Marvin L., 1992. "The Pork Grading System," Staff General Research Papers Archive 11606, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    2. Parham, Karen D. & Agnew, Donald B., 1982. "Improvements in Grades of Hogs Marketed," Miscellaneous Publications 330276, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Smyth, Donald Craig, 1985. "Economic impacts of the Farmer-Owned Reserve program on the U.S. corn-livestock sector," ISU General Staff Papers 1985010108000013104, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    2. Van Arsdall, Roy N. & Nelson, Kenneth E., 1984. "U.S. Hog Industry," Agricultural Economic Reports 305428, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:famc94:265983. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.