Beef Price Spread Relationship with Processing Capacity Utilization
In the new article “Beef Price Spread Relationship with Processing Capacity Utilization” published in the open access Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Charles Martinez, Pengzhen Li, Christopher Boyer, and Edward Yu from the University of Tennessee, along with Joshua Maples from Mississippi State University, investigate the dynamic relationship between industry–level weekly operational slaughter capacity utilization with the live cattle to box beef price spread. …