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Economic impacts of reduced milk production associated with epidemiological risk factors for Johne's disease on dairy operations in the USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2005

Willard C Losinger
Willard C Losinger
Affiliation:
Losinger Economic Consulting Services, 5212 Kingsbury Estates Drive, Plainfield, Illinois 60544, USA
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Abstract

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An examination of the economic effects of epidemiologic risk factors for Johne's disease identified regional and herd size differences as having the greatest impact. Having dairy cows that were not born on the operation was the most important factor over which individual producers had the most immediate control. Economic consequences associated with using multiple-cow-maternity housing and multiple-preweaned-calf housing were not statistically significant. Economic welfare analysis was applied, and the GUM Workbench was used to analyse uncertainties in the estimates of the economic impacts.

Keywords

Cost of diseasedairy cowsdairy productioneconomic surplusNAHMSwelfare analysisuncertainty propagation
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Dairy Research , Volume 73 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 33 - 43
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