Beef and Dairy Cattle Animal Welfare: Market Opportunities and Threats [2012 - 2015] - Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Beef and Dairy Cattle Animal Welfare: Market Opportunities and Threats [2012 - 2015]

Co-Principal Investigators

Christopher Wolf

Professor
wolfch@msu.edu
517-353-3974

Non-AFRE Co-Principle Investigators: (PI) Janice Swanson, Animal Science Department

This is a USDA – National Institute of Food and Agriculture funded grant, via Kansas State University as the lead, and co-implemented in the MSU Department of Animal Science, with collaboration from the Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics at MSU.

The long-run goal of this project is to improve the situation presented by growing animal welfare concerns for U.S. beef and dairy cattle operations. Specific objectives include:

To engage producers to benchmark knowledge and awareness,
To identify and document perceptions of animal welfare issues from both consumer and producer perspectives, and
To disseminate generated knowledge widely and effectively through novel and practical outreach efforts

Implementation Jan. 2012 – Jan. 2015.

View a presentation on this research “Benchmarking Industry Self-Perceptions Regarding Animal Welfare” by Glenn Tonsor, Kansas

College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics