Commercial margins of the cattle meat in Chile

Abstract:

Considering the importance of the production and the consumption of cattle meat in Chile, there was studied the behavior of the margins of marketing and its effect in the price paid to the producer and, the impact that the changes in the prices paid to the producer and in the magnitude of the demand exercise on the temporary dynamics of the commercial margins of cattle meat in Chile between 1990 and 2005. There decided an increase of the commercial margins of the cattle meat close to a decrease of the participation of the producer in the final price of the product. The major proportion of the commercial total margin corresponds to the agents retailers, but they are the wholesalers whom have increased relatively more its participation. Using monthly series of prices and margins of marketing between 1990 and 2005, there was thought the equation of multiple regression that relates the prices paid to the producer as dependent variable and the margins wholesaler and retailer as explanatory variables. There was obtained a negative effect of both margins, expressed in absolute and relative value, in the prices paid to the producer of bovine meat. By means of the estimation of a dynamical model of commercial margins using monthly series of prices and quantities produced of meat in rod between 1998 and 2005, there was verified the inverse relationship between the changes in the prices paid to the producer and the evolution of the commercial margins in the distributions channels of bovine meat. There is not evidence that endorses that temporary increases in the quantities demanded of meat provok; reductions in the commercial margins of this food product.

Año de publicación:

2007

Keywords:

• Livestock producer
• Cattle meat business
• Cattle meat marketing

Fuente:

scopus