Packers & Stockyards Act; Agricultural Structure, Conduct, & Performance Issues

  1. Agricultural Structure Assessment Task Force (Nebraska)
  2. GAO Report: Packers & Stockyards Programs: Actions Needed to Improve Investigations of Competitive Practices
  3. GAO Report: Packers and Stockyards Programs: Investigations of Competitive Practices Need Improvements
  4. Animal Agriculture: Issues for the 106th Congress II (Congressional Research Service Report)
  5. Antitrust/Concentration:  What is being said by other groups (Farm Bureau)
  6. Concentration in Agriculture:  USDA Advisory Committee Report
  7. The Ban on Packer Ownership and Feeding of Livestock: Legal and Economic Implications
  8. The Ban on Packer Ownership of Livestock: The 2002 Senate Farm Bill
  9. Meat Packer Vertical Integration and Contract Linkages in the Beef and Pork Industries: An Economic Perspective
  10. Ensuring Competitive and Open Agricultural Markets: Are Meat Packers Abusing Market Power?
  11. Economics of Animal Agriculture:  Forces Affecting Structural Change in the Minnesota Livestock Industry
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