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1952

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Bulletin No. 352 - Trade In Western Livestock At Auctions: I. Development Relative Importance Operations, Harold Abel, Dee A. Broadbenl May 1952

Bulletin No. 352 - Trade In Western Livestock At Auctions: I. Development Relative Importance Operations, Harold Abel, Dee A. Broadbenl

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This bulletin reports an introductory and descriptive study and contains specific information on selling livestock at auctions. It is the second bulletin on livestock marketing research in the West prepared under the supervision of the Western Livestock Marketing Research Technical Committee.

The principal objectives of this bulletin are stated as follows: ( 1) to trace the development of livestock marketing in the West and to ascertain the economic conditions responsible for shifts in the total volume of production and marketings of the several types of meat animals sold, and the relative importance of the various marketing agencies used by farmers …