The common terms of the animal research debate revolve around an animal's ability or inability to defend their rights and the possibility, therefore, of any subsequent claim to those rights. The animal is empowered only in terms of their potential to change into a subject, to mimic humanity....

This study covered 150 cooperative member milk producers and 150 non-member milk producers which were post-stratified into Landless, Marginal, small, medium and large herd size categories. Break-even point is a point where no profit no loss status achieved where MR=MC. In this study break-even...

The distinctive nature of environmental quality problems in agriculture — an industry based on the extraction of highly variable natural resources under stochastic conditions — has important implications for policy design. First, we examine the source of environmental quality problems and...

Pastoralists in East Africa's arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) regularly confront climatic shocks that plunge them into massive herd die-offs and loss of scarce wealth. One of the most puzzling features of pastoralist behavior in times of stress has been their relatively low and non-responsive...

Whether you run dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, deer, goats, pigs or poultry,advice that reflects farming practice in New Zealand is indispensable. This book, written by experts from both Massey University's Institute of Veterinary,Animal and Biomedical Sciences and academics at Lincoln...