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Animal Identification and Tracing in the United States
Author(s) -
Pendell Dustin L.,
Brester Gary W.,
Schroeder Ted C.,
Dhuyvetter Kevin C.,
Tonsor Glynn T.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.1093/ajae/aaq037
Subject(s) - tracing , identification (biology) , livestock , offset (computer science) , business , bovine spongiform encephalopathy , natural resource economics , industrial organization , beef cattle , agricultural economics , economics , computer science , zoology , biology , ecology , prion protein , medicine , botany , disease , pathology , programming language , operating system
We examine the impacts of adopting animal identification and tracing systems on the U.S. meat and livestock industry. Using a multimarket equilibrium displacement model, we find that a modest increase in domestic demand for beef would offset the costs of an animal identification system. Similarly, an increase in beef export demand equivalent to Japan's beef export market share prior to the 2003 U.S. discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy would offset animal identification system costs.