That’s the title of a new working paper co-authored with Glynn Tonsor at Kansas State University and Lee Schulz at Iowa State University. As I’ve previously written, there has been a lot of interest in price movements of livestock relative to wholesale meat during the pandemic. Just last week, there was another call by the U.S. Congress for research into the issue. Recently, there have been several good discussions of this issue including a piece by Cortney Cowley with the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank and a report by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service.
Here is the abstract of our paper:
You can read the whole thing here.