The slowing of growth in beef production in recent years has led to a sharp rise in beef prices. Domestic beef production and consumption is restricted by a shortage of beef cattle inventory. The Chinese beef industry is facing many technical problems including transformation of traditional ...
As expected, average prices of cattle age, sex and body condition score show a trend of higher prices for older and better conditioned cattle. The pilot study investigating the use of a weight tape shows that accurate weights can be determined; however, further research and farmer training is ...
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Farming in different parts of the world is highly interdependent due to the prices for farm products being largely determined by global markets. In high-income countries, the employment rates in agriculture are declining, and the farm size and the productivity per agricultural worker are increasing ...
The trade liberalization agenda of the EU leads to increasing consumer surplus in the FTA scenario (+12.3 billion Euros), as further opening up to international competition decreases EU food prices (Table 2). The impact on agricultural income in the EU is negative (−9.6 billion Euros) due ...
the food industry, they are still considered a small sector with a 42% decline in investment in 202212; APs are not widely appealing to many consumers. This is mainly due to their sensory characteristics, relatively high prices, consumer unfamiliarity, and unassured health consequences9,13,14,...
the food industry, they are still considered a small sector with a 42% decline in investment in 202212; APs are not widely appealing to many consumers. This is mainly due to their sensory characteristics, relatively high prices, consumer unfamiliarity, and unassured health consequences9,13,14,...
“The Arab region has not escaped the dire economic consequences of this pandemic. For some, the steep fall in oil prices has aggravated existing problems. A crisis, however, also presents opportunities for closer international cooperation to limit the harm from the pandemic and to spur the recov...
and explain how you are so proud to produce food for your fellow citizens. Remember that our neighbours to the south are farmers just like us. They too face the same fears and hardships that we do, probably more so given the dismal milk prices there the past several years. Denigrating the...
Sensitivity analyses regularly highlight the critical role of production costs, investment returns being targeted, and expectations regarding future cattleprices. Producers are highly heterogeneous in these and other characteristics, which, in turn,magnify the range of interest in herd expansion and the ...