The Problems which Recently Raising up in the Beef Marketing Structure in the U. S. A., Especially so-called u22Thin Marketu22.

摘要

In the U. S. A., u22Thin Marketu22 may create many problems, especially on the meat productions. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the change of u22beef-marketing structureu22 and to analyes the situations. The results are as follows: 1) The concentration of trade for meat slaughtering and processing plants have been expanded, so that local oligopolic trend on the purchasing side of live cattle is spreading. 2) As a result of the concentration, direct-trade between cattle producers and slaughterers (including processors), has rapidly made reduced the volume of transactions of cattle in the central markets in the areas. 3) An increasing trend of the u22boxed beefu22 has contributed to progress an efficiency of meat production, but is magnifying more the differences of the scale. 4) There has been raised a question for u22Thin Marketu22 which is usually meant that the number of volume of transactions becomes so small as unwarranted price behavior occurs. 5) In these contexts, the major problems in the meat marketings currently going on is abstructed to following two subject: a) One is to establish a alternative market such as, so called, u22electronicu22 or u22futuresu22 market. b) The other is to improve the information structures, for example, an introduction of mandately reproting system on the meat transactions.