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beefindustry, etc ; appetite; beef; beef consumption; carbon; ecological footprint; greenhouses; human nutrition; total nitrogen; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The environmental footprint embedded in the human diet is massive. To convey the enormity of the problem, persuasive environmental messages often report large-scale, aggregate data (such as the billions of tons of greenhouse gases released to the atmosphere annually by the beef industry.) Is this strategy effective? In five studies (total N = 1237), the environmental footprint of beef was presente ...
... Our objective was to quantify incidence and economic effect of liver abscesses and identify predominant bacterial species specific to severity of abscesses, geographical region, and cattle type. Observational liver audits occurred at 7 fed-beef (n = 130,845 livers) and 4 cull-beef (n = 30,646 livers) processing facilities. At each processing facility, intact liver abscess samples were collected an ...
beefindustry, etc ; beef; beef cattle; profitability; rangelands; supply chain; Show all 6 Subjects
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... •Sustainable beef is a socially responsible, environmentally sound, and economically viable product that prioritizes planet, people, animals, and progress. Beef sustainability requires awareness of the complex relationships among these three pillars.•In practice, sustainability to beef farmers and ranchers is about taking care of the animals, land, and water, while being a good neighbor and commun ...
beefindustry, etc ; beef; markets; pork; pork industry; prices; risk; supply chain; tail; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The objective of this paper was to investigate the intensity and the pattern of tail price risk spillovers in the US beef and pork industries. To this end, it estimates CoVaR functions for directly linked market pairs (farm–wholesale and wholesale–retail) along the relevant supply chains using quantile regressions. Over the total sample (1980–2020) and two sub‐samples (1980–1999 and 2000–2020), th ...
beefindustry, etc ; albumins; animal research; blood proteins; blood serum; electrophoresis; globulins; lungs; patients; pneumonia; protein content; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Respiratory diseases in calves are causing worldwide economic losses for the beef industry. This study was planned to determine the serum protein fractions and A/G ratio in calves with clinically diagnosed pneumonia and evaluate the possibility uses of these parameters as clinical diagnostic parameters. The 34 calves with respiratory system problems and 10 healthy calves without clinical pneumonia ...
... Chinese Simmental beef cattle play a key role in the Chinese beef industry due to their great adaptability and marketability. To achieve efficient genetic gain at a low breeding cost, it is crucial to develop a customized cost-effective low-density SNP panel for this cattle population. Thirteen growth, carcass, and meat quality traits and a BovineHD Beadchip genotyping of 1346 individuals were use ...
... The beef industry faces numerous diverse challenges concerning the integrity of their products due to increasingly complex global food supply chains. Specified plans which focus on managing the risks associated with food fraud are lacking but needed to prevent and mitigate threats to the beef supply. Before these plans can be developed, an understanding of threats to the beef industry and their as ...
... Bovine mycoplasmoses, which is mostly caused by Mycoplasma bovis, is a significant problem in the dairy and beef industry. Mycoplasmal mastitis has a global occurrence with notable effects in the United States and Europe. The pathogen was first detected in a mastitis case in California, United States, and regarded as major contagious mastitis. It is highly contagious and resistant to antibiotics a ...
... Livestock species are major contributors to the increase of antimicrobial (AM) resistance which is a worldwide concern for both human and animal health. The over-use of AM is widely acknowledged, however, unlike pigs, poultry and dairy cattle, knowledge on potential risk factors affecting AM usage (AMU) in beef industry is limited. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the impact of farm, breed, ...
beefindustry, etc ; beef; blockchain; food safety; imports; issues and policy; market share; markets; traceability; willingness to pay; China; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Amid stringent traceability requirements and a nearly 14‐year ban, the U.S. beef industry is rebuilding its market presence in China. Blockchain technology offers a responsive means of meeting Chinese import traceability requirements while also addressing consumers' food safety concerns. We evaluate Chinese demand for U.S. beef and blockchain‐based traceability and find that a sizeable segment of ...
Mariana S. da Silva; Ana Cristina S. Mosena; Letícia Baumbach; Meriane Demoliner; Juliana S. Gularte; Saulo P. Pavarini; David Driemeier; Matheus N. Weber; Fernando R. Spilki; Cláudio W. Canal
... Influenza D virus (IDV) is endemic in cattle on several continents and can also infect a wide range of hosts. IDV was first detected in a bovine respiratory disease outbreak associated with bovine alphaherpesvirus 1 in Brazil. Sequence analysis of partial segments showed that the virus is phylogenetically divergent from previously described IDVs from other continents. As the first molecular descri ...
beefindustry, etc ; agriculture; beef; beef consumption; household income; issues and policy; models; pork; poultry; stakeholders; statistics; supply chain; surveys; China; Show all 14 Subjects
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... Beef consumption in China has increased substantially from 5.0 million tons in 2000 to 7.7 million tons in 2019 thanks to rapid income growth, but still remains low compared to pork and poultry consumption. Improving the understanding about the impacts of household income on beef consumption in China is necessary to forecast future beef demand and inform the domestic beef industry, especially in t ...
beefindustry, etc ; Angus; auctions; maternal milk; meat cuts; progeny; Indiana; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Past attempts to price bull attributes have relied on static marginal valuations due to cross-sectional data limitations. This analysis investigates whether bull buyers' marginal valuations of Angus bull attributes have changed over time using 17 years of bull auction data from Indiana. Results indicate statistically significant time effects on some traits (e.g., ribeye area, percentage intermuscu ...
beefindustry, etc ; animal production; meat; meat quality; models; stakeholders; Australia; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The beef industry is organized around different stakeholders, each with their own expectations, sometimes antagonistic. This article first outlines these differing perspectives. Then, various optimization models that might integrate all these expectations are described. The final goal is to define practices that could increase value for animal production, carcasses and meat whilst simultaneously m ...
... Genetics and nutrition drive herd productivity due to significant impacts on all components of the beef cattle production cycle. In northern Australia, the beef production system is largely extensive and relies heavily on tropical cattle grazing low quality, phosphorus-deficient pastures with seasonal variations in nutritive value. The existing feedlots are predominantly grain-based; providing hig ...
beefindustry, etc ; Angus; biomass; body weight; crude protein; drought; feed intake; feed supplements; feedlots; growth performance; metabolizable energy; pastures; profitability; weanlings; Show all 14 Subjects
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... Context Beef industry productivity and profitability would be enhanced by improved efficiency at pasture. Our research is evaluating performance at pasture of Angus heifers divergent in estimated breeding values for residual feed intake determined from feedlot data (RFI-f-EBV) under a range of grazing conditions. Aims To determine whether Low- and High-RFI-f-EBV cattle differ in their growth respo ...
... This research investigated the variations in the occurrence of Salmonella, STEC O157:H7 and non-O157 in the beef production chain in Colombia affected by seasons, hypothesizing that pathogen prevalence will be highest in the rainy season owing to soil moisture promoting bacteria multiplication and transfer between animals. To test this hypothesis, samples were obtained from five abattoirs, which r ...
beefindustry, etc ; analytical methods; case studies; demand functions; inventories; models; prices; Show all 7 Subjects
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... This paper studies the problem of pricing and inventory planning for a vendor of non-instantaneous deteriorating items under partially backlogged shortages with greening investment. The demand of customers and inventory control variables are affected by greening programs. The primary objective of this paper is to determine the optimal sales price, replenishment schedule, and order quantity per inv ...
beefindustry, etc ; beef cattle; beef production; genes; genome-wide association study; genomics; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Carcass merits are widely considered as economically important traits affecting beef production in the beef cattle industry. However, the genetic basis of carcass traits remains to be well understood. Here, we applied multiple methods, including the Composite of Likelihood Ratio (CLR) and Genome-wide Association Study (GWAS), to explore the selection signatures and candidate variants affecting car ...
... Context Significant opportunities have been identified in the northern Australian beef industry that can improve efficiency and profitability by using composite or crossbred cattle and genomic selection. The improved performance of composite cattle is partly due to heterosis. One of the major genetic bases of heterosis is dominance. Traditionally, dominance is ignored in genetic evaluation but cou ...