From a global perspective, the pork and poultry markets are fairly balanced. Poultry meat production and demand both increased. In contrast, there was a strong excess of demand on the beef market, which led to significant price increases worldwide. In Germany, demand for meat and meat products...

Cyber-enabled fraud has transformed, becoming more complex and making it harder for targets and law enforcement to detect its occurrence. This study aims to recontextualize a major manifestation of this transformation, a crime called hybrid investment fraud, colloquially known as pig butchering....

Supplying monogastric livestock with amino acids is a key challenge in animal husbandry. In organic farming, the challenges are even higher due to legislative restrictions on the use of high-quality protein feed and especially synthetic amino acids, the latter being common practice in...

Industry stakeholder requests for improved animal welfare practices in German meat production have steadily increased in recent years. A transformation of German animal husbandry systems would almost certainly result in higher production costs. Against this background, producers and the meat...

Livestock production is responsible for most of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from European agriculture. To achieve the climate targets in the European Union, reducing emissions from the food chain, and within that from livestock production, is imperative. Along with structural changes,...

Food systems are under increasing pressure. They must meet the food requirements of a growing world population, and socio-economic changes also influence the type of foods which are under demand. At the same time, food systems are a major contributor to global environmental change, and...

Faced with the worsening of climate issues, nations are directing efforts to build renewable energy matrices. Specifically with regard to biomass, it can contribute to the creation and strengthening of green competitive advantages in terms of cost for agricultural units. Strictly, swine biomass,...

Despite the economic importance of PRRS and its high prevalence in Costa Rica, there are no studies on the bioeconomic impact of the disease in the country or, even, in Central America. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate economic and production parameters of a PRRS-free...

The three major meat supply chains in emerging markets are the traditional wet markets, the integrated supply chains, and the more recent collaborative supply chains. Customers in these markets are increasingly demanding safe and high-quality meat, which requires more transparency in the supply...

Agricultural water pollution from the livestock industry is a growing concern in China and globally. As opposed to size-based regulations targeting larger facilities in the United States, China’s regulations are place-based in nature. Since 2014, China classified eight urban provinces in the...

African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious disease that affects wild boar and domestic pigs. It is harmless to humans but can have devastating social and economic consequences in countries where it is present.

In 2020, an antitrust lawsuit was filed against the Pork Integrators alleging a §1 Sherman Act violation. At the center of the Lawsuit, there is an alleged exchange of atomistic information about the Pork integrators’ operations using Agri Stats, Inc. as a clearinghouse. We use the Supreme...

There are two common views of pork barrel spending. One is that pork barrel spending benefits special interests at the expense of social welfare, hence antithetical to responsible policymaking, especially in times of crisis. An alternative is that pork “greases the legislative wheels” making...

Externalities from the production and consumption of meat could be addressed by a meat tax. In a referendum choice experiment with 3,169 participants, we elicited support for a meat tax varying the following characteristics: tax level, justification of the tax, degree of differentiation and...

Pig production is subject to fluctuations due to the pig cycle. These fluctuations cause that the supply of pork is either excessively high or too low in relation to a given demand assumed on the ceteris paribus principle. In the former case, the prices of pork, especially livestock, are high,...

Environmental issues caused by untreated animal manure and crop straws require the development of resource recovery from waste through a circular economy approach. Swine manure and maize straws as the main agricultural biomass can be a renewable resource to produce biofuels and chemicals, and...

Hydrogen gas can be effectively produced by the catalytic gasification of pig hair biowastes (PHB) using a laboratory-scale fixed-bed gasifier, employing 15 wt% NiO/Al 2 O 3 nanocatalyst at 753–913 K. From thermogravimetric experiments, the derived kinetic parameters can be obtained and...

The study aimed to assess hog plum production profitability compared to other crops at the Jhalokathi District in Bangladesh. A total of 150 farmers were selected using face-to-face interviews in the convenience sampling technique, and data were collected by face-to-face interviews using a...

This study aimed to investigate long-term inhibition of chlortetracycline (CTC) antibiotics to anaerobic digestion (AD) of swine manure (SM). Two continuous-stirred tank reactors treating SM w/wo CTC spiking (3 mg/L) were operated for 900 days. The exposure level was determined according to...

Wild pigs are spreading across the United States leaving potentially devastating crop losses in their wake. The majority of US corn, soybean, and wheat (approximately 85, 79, and 73%, respectively) and 6% of rice production are at risk in counties that do not currently have wild pigs. This work...

Prevention, control and eradication of African swine fever (ASF) is a matter of high priority for the EU as it represents a serious risk for pig farming, the European eco-system and environment as a whole.

Derzeit werden in Deutschland die Nutztierhaltung und insbesondere die Schweinehaltung kontrovers diskutiert. In diesem Zusammenhang, werden die Forderungen nach höheren Tierwohlstandards lauter. Allerdings führen höhere Tierwohlstandards zu höheren Produktionskosten. Vor diesem Hintergrund...

South Korea has potential in developing large-scale pig-farming practices. However, poorly designed facilities and ventilation structures lead to production losses and energy inefficiency. This study examines energy efficiency in pig houses by establishing a heating, ventilation, and...

We use a temporary ban on inter-province shipping of live hogs induced by the 2018 outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in China as a natural experiment to study spatial mechanisms behind the dynamics of market integration. With a unique dataset of weekly provincial hog prices, we employ a...