This study analyses how much of prices paid by the consumers of beef meat are passed on to the farmer. The prices of different types of beef cuts were collected monthly in four supermarkets in Santa Maria-RS, Brazil. The percentage values of different cuts were obtained and multiplied by the price paid by consumers. Thus, it was calculated the adjusted price of kilogram of carcass commercialized at supermarket. The average price per kilogram of live steers received by the farmer was collected by EMATER-RS. There was a low price variation throughout the year of carcass cuts, when referring to the price of the whole carcass. In average, the Forequarter represented 26.10%, the Sidecut 13.40% and the Sawcut 60.50% of the total price. The roll of the post farm production sectors in maintaining a low consumer price variation with a reduced margin variation of 7.6 points during the year was made evident. The relation between the prices received by farmer and the prices paid by consumers for each four-month period of the year present different results: weakness, strength negative and strength positive associations in the first, second and third periods, respectively.
beef cattle; beef; beef chain
