In this paper we study whether “network closure” in the supply chain can explain the heterogeneity observed in firms’ performance. Using unique panel data on trade flows among beef farms in the Italian region of Piedmont, we analyze a sequential supply chain characterized by the...

This paper aims to critically examine the potential barriers to the implementation and adoption of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in the beef supply chain. The beef supply chain has been challenging due to its complex processes, activities, and management. The beef industry has relied heavily...

Reasons for intense concern about competition and fairness in cattle and beef markets are obvious from charts of retail beef prices, beef packer profit margins, grocery profit margins, and returns to independent cattle feeders

U.S. beef cattle stocks are among the most periodic time-series in economics. A theory of cattle cycles is constructed, based upon rational breeding stock inventory decisions in the presence of gestation and maturation delays between production and consumption. The low fertility rates of cows...

The article deals with the “Farm to Fork” Strategy, which is the European Union document significant for the future of the Common Agricultural Policy and the effects of its implementation for the beef sector in Poland, as well as an important element of agri-food exports. The analysis uses a...

In the 1980s, there was a famous TV ad for Wendy’s with the tagline “Where’s the Beef?” Many investors in today’s so-called smart beta strategies may well be asking a similar question, “Where’s the Alpha?” Investors frequently buy into historical simulations or backtests, often...

This field lysimeter study investigated the effect of late-autumn application of dicyandiamide (DCD), co-poly acrylic-maleic acid (PA-MA), calcium lignosulphonate (LS), a split-application of calcium lignosulphonate (2LS), and a combination of ProGibb SG (GA) and LS (GA + LS) to reduce N...

The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has evolved since its inception in 1962 and since the expansion of the EU to 28 member countries (EU28 - EU27, since the departure of the United Kingdom on 31 January 2020). In its latest iteration published in June 2018, the 2021-2027 CAP,...

This article investigated the role of cattle attributes in buyers’ choices and hedonic pricing in Benin. Cross-sectional data were collected on 347 market cattle transactions using the revealed preference method. Both statistical tests and hedonic price models were performed. The results show...

Dairy enterprise is recognized as an integral component of livestock that plays important role in the economy of an agricultural country like Bangladesh. Here some vital productive and reproductive attributes from 100 indigenous and 318 crossbred dairy cattle reared in mini dairy farms of Natore...

Impact of genotypes and parity on some vital reproductive and productive attributes in the local (L×L, n = 100) and four crossbred cows (L×F, L×SL, L×JR and L×S; n = 318) raised in randomly selected smallholder dairy farms scattered all over Natore District and adjacent areas have been...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rapidly progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease, that affects 1 in every 1,000,000 people, with there being 350 new cases of the pathology in the United States every year. In specific, it is a prion disease that is caused by a misfolded prion protein,...

Coupled support is one of the main payment schemes in the category "direct payments", introduced at EU level in the year 2015, funded from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF). In the EU-28, the highest share of coupled support payments in the year 2019 went to the livestock farming...

The US livestock industry benefits from direct and indirect subsidies at the expense of the environment, public health, and animal welfare. These subsidies result in artificially low meat prices and increased consumption, and create hurdles to fair competition between large and small livestock...

Despite wide availability of publicly reported price and quantity movements of agricultural commodities, these data alone do not easily allow one to determine whether and to what extent changing market conditions are due to shifts in underlying supply and demand curves. Such information,...

Aged-beef has historically been available in high-end establishments, but investigation into consumer preferences for aging is increasingly important as it has become more readily available. Consumer perceptions of and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for aged-beef under two methods dry-aging and...

The paper presents the analysis of synthetic economic indicators from 2018-2020 for a number of 30 dairy farms in various areas of the country, which were the subject of case studies. The purpose of analyzing the indicators is to know the essence of the elements that contributed to obtaining...

The paper presents the existing situation on the beef market in Romania, compared to the situation encountered in the European Union and implicitly the position that our country occupies in this regard. The study was conducted for the period 2015-2020 and reflects the fact that Romania is not...

A total of 100 newly collected dairy cattle (after parturition) of which 20 local and 80 crossbred varieties of mini dairy farms from urban and semi-urban areas of Rajshahi district were selected for the study. They were divided into four groups depending on different feeding practices viz.,...

New plant-based meat alternatives that aim to mimic the taste and texture of beef could have significant economic, environmental, and animal welfare impacts if they replace animal-based meats and reduce livestock production. Whether plant-based meat alternatives can achieve these ends depends on...

Ethiopia is endowed with significant livestock resources and holds the largest livestock population in Africa, estimated at around 60 million cattle, 60 million sheep and goats, 52 million chickens, 4.5 million camels, 10 million bee colonies and 7.2 million equines. The livestock production and...

The coupled support is a production limiting system, which is granted under the form of an annual payment, to those sectors or regions in a Member State, where certain types of agriculture or certain agricultural sectors, which are very important from economic, social or environmental reasons,...

In this research, anaerobic reactors were tested for the treatment and energy recovery of industrial and cattle-raising waste. Four plug flow reactors operated with concentrations of 20% ricotta cheese whey and 80% cattle manure; 40% ricotta cheese whey and 60% cattle manure; 80% ricotta cheese...

1. --Cultivating a Regional Agroecology --2. --Capitalism and Sustainable Farming --3. --Beet Biology and the Nature of Labor --4. --Piedmont Sugar and the State of Science --5. -- TheEconomics of Mechanization and Watershed Engineering --6. --Building the Petrochemical Paradigm --7....

Georgia's First Cattle (1521-1900) -- Laying the Foundation (1900-1930) -- An Industry Emerges (1930-1945) -- Fat Cattle (1945-1960) -- The Big Shift: Education and a Boom in Beef (1960-1975) -- From Boom to Bust (1975-1990) -- Marketing Beef and Dairy (1990-2005) -- Challenges of a...