Variability in venison returns
Abstract
The venison industry has been characterised by a number of boom bust cycles
that have been highly de stabilising for all sectors in the supply chain. During the last
ten years we have seen three major cycles with the latest putting the industry and
many of its farmers financially on the edge of it's own killing knife. This study will examine the relationship that has developed since 1967 with the
German game trade and the New Zealand venison industry. To understand how the
game trade has influenced core trading and how the venison industry has developed
there is a need to define the market structure and evaluate its influence and its driving
forces. For example describing what major forces exist and how they have developed
over the last twenty years, how the farm raised and feral venison industries has
evolved in that time and to give particular attention to what factors have contributed to
venison returns from 2000 to today.... [Show full abstract]
Keywords
venison industry; German game trade; venison returnsFields of Research
140201 Agricultural EconomicsDate
2003Type
MonographCollections
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