This paper addresses 14 possible reasons why meat goat producers selected to engage in meat goat production, with results having implications for research, extension, and teaching efforts. A survey of meat goat producers was conducted. Reasons for entering meat goat production were assessed and...

A survey was conducted to determine U.S. grass-fed beef producer perceptions of important challenges facing the industry. The most important challenges facing grass-fed beef producers were shortage of processors, lack of a clear marketing system, pasture management problems, and the long period...

We estimate a production function for U.S. dairy farming to examine the productivity of organic and non-organic dairy production by system and size. Across organic/non-organic systems and size classes, size is the major determinant of competitiveness based on various measures of productivity and...

This study examines preferences for cattle traits using mixed logit and latent class models. Choice experiment data from a 2013 mail survey of 1,052 U.S. grass-fed beef producers were used. Preliminary results indicate that producers prefer lower-priced, heavy, black, and easy-to-handle feeders...

Grass-fed beef cost and returns survey data from 2012 were analyzed to measure technical efficiency of GFB farms in the U.S. We found all inputs with expected signs. The average technical efficiency of GFB was 70% and the farms are operating with increasing returns to scale.

Milk quotas are a basic tool of the dairy market regime regulation in the EU. An abolishment of the quotas in 2015 will trigger considerable but positive changes in the market conditions. Limitation of supply, which in fact is a very strong intervention in the market fundamentals, has a negative...

Influence of the Polish integration with the European Union on the economic situation of sheep breeding farms is presented. The research data used in the article were taken from publications by GUS, IERiGŻ-PIB and directly from farms in the Podlasie region. The predominating product from sheep...

An analysis, based on empirical data for the period of 1990-2011, presents changes in production, consumption and foreign trade in pig meat and its products. Since 2008 Poland has been a net importer of pig meat and its products. / Synopsis. W artykule przedstawiono zmiany w produkcji,...

Problems of development of egg production in Belarus are considered. Dynamics of volume of egg production is considered for the period of 1995-2009. Results of production and sale of eggs by integrated (mass production) poultry farms are analyzed by means of a correlation method.

The aim of this article a comparative analysis of the economics of fishing fleets registered in the EU member states and operating in the Baltic Sea region. It was found that among the old EU countries, almost all segments of the fishing fleet were profitable, except for the German fishing...