Hagerman, Amy D.; Looney, J. Chris; McCarl, Bruce A.; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2010
This study evaluates how the availability of animal tracing affects the cost of a hypothetical Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in the Texas High Plains using alternative tracing scenarios. To accomplish this objective, the AusSpread epidemic disease spread model (Ward et al., 2006) is used...