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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Winners and losers from Johne’s disease eradication from the Scottish dairy herd: a Markov-Chain simulation
Autores: | Weldegebriel,   Habtu T.; Gunn,   George J.; Stott,   Alistair W.
Data: | 2008-03-30
Ano: | 2008
Palavras-chave: | Johne's; Eradication programme; Economic welfare effects; Economic surplus; I180.
Resumo: | In this paper, we evaluated the welfare effects of a hypothetical programme of Johne's disease eradication from the Scottish dairy herd on different stakeholders in the domestic milk market. We undertook the evaluation using a Markov-Chain simulation and applying an economic welfare analysis which takes into consideration the effects of an eradication programme on product price, on output quantity, on cost and on milk yield for given levels of supply and demand elasticities. We found that, following the eradication of the disease, milk yield per cow increased for all herd sizes in Scotland whereas price and unit cost of milk production fell. Consequently, milk consumers gained around £14.3 million in discounted economic surplus and producers with infected herds around £13.4 million whereas producers with uninfected herds lost around £10.7 million in discounted surplus. The gain in surplus made by consumers and owners of infected herds, however, more than made up for the loss in surplus made by owners of un-infected herds. Therefore, on balance, Scotland gained a net economic surplus of £17 million from the programme.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/36872
Relação: | Agricultural Economics Society&gt;82nd Annual Conference, March 31-April 2,  2008, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, UK
Formato: | 21