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Limiting Captive Supply Arrangements in Livestock Agriculture
| Title: | Limiting Captive Supply Arrangements in Livestock Agriculture | | Author: | Mattera, Philip | | Date Published: | August 1, 2003 | | Source: | Corporate Research Project / National Family Farm Coalition | | PDF: |  | | Abstract: | This paper reviews legislative efforts to address the problem of corporate concentration and oligopsony power in the US meatpacking industry, and details the negative impacts of captive supply arrangements and vertical integration, both on independent meat producers and on competition in livestock markets. |
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