Add to ORKGAnimal diseases can cause significant production losses and a reduction in livestock receipts. While compensation is provided by the U.S. government in the event of an emergency disease outbreak, that compensation, an indemnity payment, does not cover the other costs that producers incur when their production cycle is interrupted. Those other losses, consequential costs, include business interruption, loss of markets, reduced productivity, increased welfare costs and increased biosecurity compliance costs. The recent Canadian experience with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly referred to as mad cow disease) demonstrates the significance and magnitude of these other, market related, losses-- most significantly losses in exports....
Poor production and handling practices continue to persist that are both detrimental to animal welfa...
Poor production and handling practices continue to persist that are both detrimental to animal welfa...
There is no known cure for the family of diseases known as Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies...
Statistical agencies are clearly not responsible for animal health and food safety. Protecting the h...
Disease in farm animals has significant economic impacts on livestock production and incurs substant...
The widely recognized externalities associated with livestock disease control have prompted countrie...
In recent decades, a number of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks have occurred in countries tha...
Animal health concerns are not new to agriculture. Animal health breakthroughs have been occurring w...
In recent decades, a number of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks have occurred in countries tha...
In recent decades, a number of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks have occurred in countries tha...
Despite existing mad cow disease surveillance efforts in the United States, in place since the 1980s...
This article was originally presented at the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society’s workshop, Sus...
Despite existing mad cow disease surveillance efforts in the United States, in place since the 1980s...
Despite existing mad cow disease surveillance efforts in the United States, in place since the 1980s...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Bovine spongif...
Poor production and handling practices continue to persist that are both detrimental to animal welfa...
Poor production and handling practices continue to persist that are both detrimental to animal welfa...
There is no known cure for the family of diseases known as Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies...
Statistical agencies are clearly not responsible for animal health and food safety. Protecting the h...
Disease in farm animals has significant economic impacts on livestock production and incurs substant...
The widely recognized externalities associated with livestock disease control have prompted countrie...
In recent decades, a number of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks have occurred in countries tha...
Animal health concerns are not new to agriculture. Animal health breakthroughs have been occurring w...
In recent decades, a number of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks have occurred in countries tha...
In recent decades, a number of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks have occurred in countries tha...
Despite existing mad cow disease surveillance efforts in the United States, in place since the 1980s...
This article was originally presented at the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society’s workshop, Sus...
Despite existing mad cow disease surveillance efforts in the United States, in place since the 1980s...
Despite existing mad cow disease surveillance efforts in the United States, in place since the 1980s...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Bovine spongif...
Poor production and handling practices continue to persist that are both detrimental to animal welfa...
Poor production and handling practices continue to persist that are both detrimental to animal welfa...
There is no known cure for the family of diseases known as Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies...