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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou +3 more
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Journal of Advanced ResearchBackground: The human gut hosts a diverse microbial community, essential for maintaining overall health. However, antibiotics, commonly prescribed for infections, can disrupt this delicate balance, leading to antibiotic-associated diarrhea, inflammatory ...
Shuwei Yang +6 more
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Financial Performance Value-Added Dairy Operations in New York, Vermont and Wisconsin [PDF]
Federal, state and local governments have funded various efforts to support value added agriculture, often implicitly assuming that the enterprises would be profitable and that the transition from commodity producer to producer-processor-marketer ...
Nicholson, Charles F. +1 more
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Market opportunities for animal-friendly milk in different consumer segments [PDF]
, 2016 Consumers have increasing, but highly variable, interest in sustainability attributes of food, including ethical aspects, such as animal welfare. We explored market opportunities for animal-friendly cow’s milk based on segmentation (cluster) analysis ...
Bijttebier, Jo +6 more
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AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.Fermented citrus transforms bioactive compounds into metabolites with probiotic and prebiotic properties, enhancing gut health, immunity, and metabolic balance. This review highlights fermentation's role in developing sustainable, health‐promoting functional foods while addressing challenges in process optimization, sensory quality, and commercial ...
Sony Kumari +3 more
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Dairy Food Consumption, Production, and Policy in Japan [PDF]
We explore and investigate Japanese dairy markets. We first provide an overview of consumer demand and how it evolved after World War II. Using historical data and econometric estimates of Japanese dairy demand, we identify economic, cultural, and ...
Beghin, John C., Campo, Isabelle Schluep
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Dairy product production and lactose demand in New Zealand and Ireland under different simulated milk product-processing portfolios [PDF]
, 2016 peer-reviewedMaximising dairy industry profitability involves maximising product returns for a specific set of costs or minimising costs for a certain level of output.
Davis, S.R. +6 more
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen +2 more
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Journal of Advanced Veterinary and Animal ResearchObjective: The objective of this research was to discover single-nucleotide variations in the prolactin (PRL) gene and to evaluate their correlation with milk production characteristics in Ayrshire cows reared in southern Russia.
Nadezhda Vasilievna Shirokova +5 more
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Are all meats substitutes? A basket‐and‐expenditure‐based approach
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the relationship among animal‐based meat and plant‐based meat alternatives (PBMAs) using a basket‐and‐expenditure‐based choice experiment. In particular, we examine whether animal‐based meat products are substitutes or complements with PBMAs.
Clinton L. Neill, Logan L. Britton
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