The name is absent



12

Table 3. Mean rating of factors affecting whether or not to use grid pricing, by extent of grid pricing
in 2003 (NE, CO, KS, TX, OK, NM)

Grid Pricing Groups

50% or less of More than 50% of

Factor______________________________________________________Marketings___________Marketings

(Mean response)

Price and Market Conditions

Favorable base price

3.20

3.67

Upward trending market

4.44

4.36

Tight supplies (fewer days of feed)

5.20

5.07

Wide Choice-Select price spread

3.61

3.07

Wide YG4-YG5 price spread

4.96

4.50

Cattle Characteristics

Quality grade well (percent Choice or better)

2.76

2.86

Yield grade well (percent YG1-2)

3.53

3.05

Dress well (high dressing percent)

3.43

2.88

Cattle expected to fit a specific grid

3.13

2.71

Futures Market Conditions

Relatively stable prices*

3.89

4.43

Relatively stable, predictable basis

4.21

4.69

Other Factors

Favorable expected profit margins

4.14

4.12

Marketing with an agreement, contract

4.00

3.56

or through an alliance or cooperative

Favorable recent experience with

3.38

2.93

grid pricing

* Different means at 0.10 significance, with equal variances



More intriguing information

1. Improving Business Cycle Forecasts’ Accuracy - What Can We Learn from Past Errors?
2. Connectionism, Analogicity and Mental Content
3. The name is absent
4. Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? - A Statistical Guinea Pig Approach
5. A Rational Analysis of Alternating Search and Reflection Strategies in Problem Solving
6. EMU: some unanswered questions
7. Une Classe de Concepts
8. The name is absent
9. Skill and work experience in the European knowledge economy
10. The name is absent
11. Integrating the Structural Auction Approach and Traditional Measures of Market Power
12. Why Managers Hold Shares of Their Firms: An Empirical Analysis
13. DISCRIMINATORY APPROACH TO AUDITORY STIMULI IN GUINEA FOWL (NUMIDA MELEAGRIS) AFTER HYPERSTRIATAL∕HIPPOCAMP- AL BRAIN DAMAGE
14. Word Sense Disambiguation by Web Mining for Word Co-occurrence Probabilities
15. DIVERSITY OF RURAL PLACES - TEXAS
16. AMINO ACIDS SEQUENCE ANALYSIS ON COLLAGEN
17. Consumer Networks and Firm Reputation: A First Experimental Investigation
18. Language discrimination by human newborns and by cotton-top tamarin monkeys
19. An Intertemporal Benchmark Model for Turkey’s Current Account
20. Telecommuting and environmental policy - lessons from the Ecommute program