In fiscal year 2003, GIPSA received $4.5 million in appropriations for a broad study of marketing practices in the entire livestock and red meat industries from farmers to retailers, food service firms, and exporters. In June 2004, at the culmination of a competitive bidding process, GIPSA awarded a $4.3 million contract to the RTI International (RTI) to conduct the study. RTI delivered an interim report in July 2005 describing alternative marketing arrangements and their terms, and reasons that industry participants give for using alternative arrangements. In February 2007, GIPSA released the final report with the results of the analysis of extent of use, price relationships, and costs and benefits of alternative marketing arrangements.
REPORTS
GIPSA Livestock and Meat Marketing Study Final Reports (February 2007)
Interim Report
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- Overview, including review of Transactions Data Collection (February 2006) and Survey of Alternative Marketing Arrangements in the Livestock and Meat Industries-December 2005
Last updated 07/13/2007
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