Small Business Problems in the Marketing of Meat and Other Commodities: Electronic marketingU.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 |
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35 selected plants Agricultural Marketing Service antitrust Beef Pricing Report bids and offers boxed beef brokers buyers and sellers carcass beef carcass sales cattle futures Chicago Mercantile Exchange computer terminals CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contracts costs cotton Department of Agriculture develop eggs electronic marketing system electronic trading formula pricing formula trading futures contracts heifer carcasses heifer slaughter LIBRARY OF CONGRESS live cattle livestock manipulation Market News Service market price reports market reporting services meat industry meat marketing meat packers meat price reporting Meat Pricing Task Meat Sheet Neal Smith negotiated prices operating packer-to-packer trades Packers and Stockyards Paired t-test percent price information price reporting services Pricing Method Pricing Task Force problems Processors published price purchase recommendations reported prices retailers Secretary BERGLAND Secretary of Agriculture sold steer and heifer TELCOT thin market trading system transaction prices U.S. Department USDA Group USDA Market volume wholesale meat trade Yellow Sheet
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Side 27 - Under the Sherman Act a combination formed for the purpose and with the effect of raising, depressing, fixing, pegging, or stabilizing the price of a commodity in interstate or foreign commerce is illegal per se.
Side 32 - Congress and to submit therewith recommendations for additional legislation; and to provide for the publication of its reports and decisions in such form and manner as may be best adapted for public information and use.
Side 32 - To make public from time to time such portions of the information obtained by it hereunder, except trade secrets and names of customers, as it shall deem expedient in the public interest; and to make annual and special reports to the Congress and to submit therewith recommendations for additional legislation; and to provide for the publication of its reports and decisions...
Side 2 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. First of all, I would like to commend the committee for getting into this subject of skyjacking.
Side 28 - United States v. United States Gypsum Co . , 438 US 422 (1978); United States v. Citizens and Southern National Bank, 422 US 86 (1975).
Side 38 - Palatability-indicating characteristics of the lean and conformation, herein referred to as "quality" and (2) the indicated percent of trimmed, boneless, major retail cuts to be derived from the carcass, herein referred to as "cutability." However, the grade of a beef carcass when applied by Federal meat graders may consist of an evaluation for the quality designation, the cutability designation, or a combination of both the quality and cutability designations.
Side 57 - Briefly stated, hedging is the sale of futures against the physical commodity or its equivalent, as protection against a price decline, or the purchase of futures against forward sales or anticipated requirements of the physical commodity as protection against a price advance.
Side 27 - ... Such substantial discrepancies, when considered in light of the procedural framework for data compilation, certainly raise the possibility of antitrust violations. Brought to mind are the numerous antitrust problems which arise when sensitive data is compiled and exchanged by members of an industry (see eg. United States v. Container Corp. of America, 393 US 333 (1969) and cases cited therein ) . In 1970, the Commission began its investigation to determine the possibility of collusion or other...
Side 5 - The symposium will emphasize livestock and meat marketing. Representatives of firms interested in electronic marketing, market reporting services, packers, retailers, representatives from land grant universities, from Government, and others interested will be invited to attend. The development of an electronic system for wholesale trading of meat is at the point where pilot testing can be carried out.
Side 48 - Mountain includes Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. Pacific includes Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, and Hawaii.