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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Small mammalian herbivores at moderate densities facilitate livestock growth by improving vegetation composition in grasslands. [PDF]

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Zhong Z   +15 more
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Grazing, Effects of

2001
Grazing, in the traditional sense of the term describes the actions of animals that consume parts of plants without causing the death of the plant; for example, the consumption of grass tissue by domestic cattle. By extension, the term applies more generally to any feeding process that involves the partial consumption of the prey organism so as to ...
Mark E Hay, Cynthia E Kicklighter
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