Personal interviews were conducted with beef cattle producers in Louisiana to determine their preferences and purchase decisions for livestock price insurance. Conjoint analysis was utilized to determine the importance of selected attributes of insurance policies for these producers. The characteristics of producers who prefer given attributes were also identified. Producers rated products give...

nearly two decades, organizational failures are considered as an effective source of promoting organizational learning. error management culture in the organization is established as a mechanism to facilitate organizational learning from errors that improves long-term and sustainable innovation and organizational performance. the main objective of this study is to investigate the relation betwe...

agriculture sector in iran and some other countries of the world has a vital role in national development. animal husbandry sub-sector needed meat of the society, creating related jobs and producing raw materials of some industries. acquiring scientific and sound information of the current situation of regions are important and imitative step in improvement program planning. the purpose of this...

Large herbivore livestock and wildlife in Mongolia depend almost entirely for substance on forage standing crop produced each year on natural pastureland. Consequently, both livestock and wildlife are continuously subject to environmental risk, especially drought and severe winter storms, while livestock are also subject to financial risk. As consumption-based livestock production changes to co...

the purpose of research was analysis of innovation management in processing and complementary industriesof livestock products. the method of research was correlative descriptive. the statistical population of this study was all managers in processing and complementary industriesof livestock products of khouzestan province (n=486). the sampling method was stratified random sampling. the sample s...

The diversity in today’s livestock breeds has been shaped largely through the domestication of wild ancestral species and subsequent refinement by human selection for desired traits. Only a small fraction of the genetic diversity from the ancestral species survives in the domestic counterparts. A 2007 report released by UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) "The state of the world's animal...

Rural tourism is becoming increasingly embedded in the livestock animal management in rural areas. Drawing on a multi-methods approach, this exploratory research shows how to construct the livestock animal displacement actor-networks. As is found, human actors (local governments, tourists, and local residents), non-human animal (livestock) and quasi-object (human dwellings) construct an interac...