The research analyzes the price transmission among the Costa Rican markets of cattle, beef and milk, accounting for … the behaviour expected. Cattle prices adjust in the milk - cattle relationship, beef meat prices adjust in the cattle … - beef meat relation and in the milk - beef meat relation. This finding supports the statement regarding the leading position …

credit on smallholder dairy farms in the East African highlands using farm level data from Ethiopia and Kenya. Farmers were … output per farm was explained by the number of crossbred milking cows in the dairy herd. Because credit is likely to … facilitate investment in crossbred dairy cows it will have substantial impacts on smallholder dairy farms especially if it is …

broiler, layer and dairy farms in Bangladesh and their implications for poverty alleviation. …

Previous farm-level studies have shown that adopting improved feeding and management strategies improves livestock … productivity and, in particular, increases the milk production and income of resource poor smallholder mixed-crop and livestock …, the analysis indicates a positive relationship between household income and adoption of the improved dairy technologies …

Climate change could affect the costs and returns of livestock production by altering the thermal environment of … animals thereby affecting animal health, reproduction, and the efficiency by which livestock convert feed into retained … products (especially meat and milk). In the United States, concentrated livestock operations are located in a variety of …

Australian Beef Industry from the Adoption of Meat Standards Australia: updated to 2010/11 + Garry Griffith and John Thompson … Meat and Livestock Australia and the Cooperative Research Centre for Cattle and Meat Quality funded a major R&D program in … the mid 1990s to investigate the relationships between observable beef and cattle characteristics, cooking methods and …

This paper assesses the total factor productivity (TFP) growth and efficiency levels in the Indian dairy processing … frontier is used. Our results suggest that total factor productivity in the Indian dairy processing industry has grown … the productivity growth in the Indian dairy industry. The non-increasing returns to scale DEA frontier analysis suggests …

dairy margin insurance programs to those under existing counter-cyclical payment programs. We combine simulation and … structural modeling techniques to forecast milk price and dairy income-over-feed-cost margins. Using the price forecasts we …