livestock disease in Africa- can be maintained and enhanced while retaining and reinforcing characteristics of economic …

system was estimated for livestock product consumption in urban China over the 1990s. Total expenditure elasticities for the … livestock commodity group and expenditure elasticities for dairy products within the livestock commodity group were calculated …

development of the livestock sector in this Mexican state. Ten URP were located in different regions within the state and modeled … only four URP had positive net income. Most of beef livestock URP frequently had profitability problems. Hog URP rarely had …

This dissertation studies the demand for imported and domestic demand models for meat and livestock. The first essay … domestic and imported livestock by the US meat processing industry and explores the existence of long-run relationships in the … livestock. The third essay investigates the impact of the discovery BSE in Canadian cattle on the imported and domestic demand …

for livestock producers. The program is conceptually well designed, but implementation thus far falls short of the …

This study investigates productive efficiency for a sample of Missouri crop-only (specialized) and integrated crop-livestock …

information generated through a formal survey conducted in the major pastoral livestock markets of Ethiopia with 128 collectors … season as important determinants of livestock price formation. Age group and body condition of the traded animals, buyer and … seller types are also important observable attributes influencing formation of livestock prices. …

of the major polluters in the U.S. – commercial agriculture. As livestock production has become increasingly mobile … particular importance to upcoming federal regulation of large-scale livestock production under the Clean Air Act. By exploiting …

The present study has determined the perceived consequences of an ILA on the production conditions of livestock farming … systems based on the advantages of an agglomerated agri-food industry and the disadvantages of an increasing livestock … conflicts to increase. Their perception of the effects of being located within an ILA caused the livestock farmers in this …