Document Type
Fact Sheet
Series No.
209
Description
Supplying beef every day of the year to over 190 million consumers is the business of millions of ranchers and farmers and thousands of marketing agencies Farmers and ranchers start the production phase by growing the cattle and finishing them to slaughter weight. The marketing agencies — terminal markets, auctions, truckers, dealers. slaughterers, packers, wholesalers, brokers and retailers — provide the facilities and services required to move beef from the ranch and farm to the consumers at the time and place and in the form they desire.
Publication Date
1964
Format
application/pdf
Publisher
South Dakota State University
Rights
South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
South Dakota State University, Cooperative Extension, "Beef Marketing Costs and Margins" (1964). SDSU Extension Fact Sheets. 828.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/extension_fact/828
Comments
This item was digitized with the support from Project CERES, a collaboration between USAIN, AgNIC, and the Center for Research Libraries.