Matthews et al, 2015 – Effects of housing system on the costs of commercial egg production
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Egg producers in the EU had more than a decade to adapt to Directive 1999/74/ EC which prohibits keeping laying hens in battery cages after 2012. Meanwhile, numerous studies have been conducted in order to assess the socio-economic implications of this ban and to evaluate consumers’ willingness to support improvement in layer welfare by paying …
The attributes of egg production that elicitvalues-based responses include the price and availability of eggs, environmental impacts, food safety or health concerns, and animal welfare. Different social groups have distinct interests regarding the sustainability of egg production that reflect these diverse values. Current scientifically based knowledge about how values and attitudes in these groups can …
This article highlights some key areas where economics can contribute to the current debate about animal welfare. Production economics reveals that producers will not maximize animal welfare, even if animal well-being is highly correlated with output. Welfare economics raises thorny issues about the doublecounting of benefits when humans exhibit altruism towards animals, while public economics …
Rising affluence in major developing countries (principally China and India) and increasing diversion of agricultural resources for energy production (USA …
Changes in both farm production and food transport have resulted in the imposition of new levels of environmental costs. This …
The global poultry sector is divided into a large-scale commercial sub-sector dominated by international, vertically integrated companies, and a small-scale …
Conventional cage housing for laying hens evolved as a cost-effective egg production system. Complying with mandated hen housing alternatives would raise marginal production costs and require sizable capital investment. California data indicate that shifts from conventional cages to barn housing would likely cause farm-level cost increases of about 40% per dozen. The US data on …
Research received from the United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service (USDA ERS) comparing the retail price and nutritional …
This paper is the report of a meeting that gathered many of the UK’s most senior animal scientists with representatives of the farming industry, consumer groups, animal welfare groups, and environmentalists. There was strong consensus that the current economic structure of agriculture cannot adequately address major issues of concern to society: farm incomes, food security …
Producers commonly feed commercial leghorns based on flock average feed intake to control egg size and nutrient intake. However, results …
This article presents a model to calculate the level of ammonia emission from commercial layer houses. The first part of …
A report prepared for the United Egg Producers (UEP) by Promar International as a result of an independent economic study that they commissioned.
The United States Department of Agriculture has released its broad and insightful review of the Industry Year which can be …
First World Poultry Forum – Guadalajara 2006