Sheep welfare is an emerging topic in research and food marketing, and recent studies suggest that farm labour is a key …-determined level of sheep welfare. The results show a trade-off between welfare level and labour input per sheep. Dropping tasks with … factor for both animal welfare and productivity in extensive sheep farming systems, although little research has been done …

This paper identifies and synthesises strategic opportunities and challenges facing New Zealand’s sheep meat and beef …

Data from each of 5 commercial, extensive sheep farms in Cumbria, UK were used as parameters in a linear program (LP …) representing labour and grazing management in such farming systems. The LP maximised ewe enterprise gross margin subject to … constraints dictated by the labour availability and land types on each farm. Under the assumptions used, labour availability and …

This paper compares innovation systems in three main Scottish livestock sectors: dairy, beef, and sheep, using the … – such as low fertility rates for artificial insemination in sheep; social barriers such as farmer’s scepticism; and market …/supply chain barriers, such as limited information flow to farmers within the beef and sheep sectors. We use the innovation system …

transmission of Maedi-Visna virus in a low ground flock of sheep. We adjusted parameters in the model from this baseline to explore …

Recent low estimates of total factor productivity change for wool producers in the Australian sheep industry indicate … in south-west Victoria who had been the subject of such a negative finding. An important transformation in sheep …

Hedonic price models were fitted to a sample of 1397 sheep and 1293 goats respectively for which data were collected …, terms of trade may be worst when farmers need cash the most. In general, there was no clear progression in price of sheep …