Economic evaluation from beef cattle production industry with intensification in Brazil’s tropical pastures

Romanzini, Eliéder Prates; Barbero, Rondineli Pavezzi; Reis, Ricardo Andrade; Hadley, David; Malheiros, Euclides Braga

doi:10.1007/s11250-020-02304-8

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“…Drought across Brazilian pasturelands in 2014 and 2015 increased the number of slaughtered animals in 2015, resulting in higher beef supply and lower prices—by 17% compared to 2014. This was followed by two years of cattle rebuilding, increasing beef prices by 8% in 2017 from 2015 [ 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 ].…”

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Introducing the World’s First Global Producer Price Indices for Beef Cattle and Sheep

Almadani

Weeks²,

Deblitz

2021

Animals

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While international beef and sheep meat price developments are usually measured with meat trade prices (provided by FAO), no comparable information exists on world average of national prices that producers receive for livestock. This paper aims to fill this gap by introducing a set of global producer price indices representing cattle, lambs, and sheep prices as received by producers: the agri benchmark of weaner cattle, finished cattle, lambs and lambs and sheep price indices. These Laspeyres, production-weighted indices measure changes in global farm gate prices as provided annually by the agri benchmark Beef and Sheep Network, with this paper covering prices between 2000 and 2019. The results showed that growing Asian imports, local economic developments in South America, the interconnection with the dairy sector in Europe, growth of beef consumption in China and exchange rates shifts are the key factors that drove developments of global beef producer prices over the past 20 years. Droughts in Oceania and the rapid rise in China’s sheep meat prices are highly reflected in the Global Lambs and Lambs and Sheep Meat Price indices. The indices indicate whether cattle and sheep producers globally are receiving more, or less, for the commodity and may increase or reduce production and investment accordingly. This will be of more use if there were similar producer price indices for competing enterprises, such as dairy and cropping, and for competing proteins, such as pigs, poultry, and fish.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introducing the World’s First Global Producer Price Indices for Beef Cattle and Sheep

Almadani

Weeks²,

Deblitz

2021

Animals

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“…According to Santos et al [51], values of average daily gain (ADG) above 800 g during the rainy season are hardly reached by cattle kept in tropical pastures without the use of supplementation with concentrate. Despite the high cost of the additional gains inherent to the concentrate in this period (100 to 200 g/animal/day), this can result in a considerable reduction in finishing phase time, on pasture or feedlot, with possible economic returns [6,33,36,52].…”

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Advances in Pasture Management and Animal Nutrition to Optimize Beef Cattle Production in Grazing Systems

Berça¹,

Romanzini²,

Cardoso³

et al. 2022

Veterinary Medicine and Science

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The increasing demand of meat requires the adoption of sustainable intensification livestock systems, applying nutritional strategies to reduce any negative contribution from beef cattle to global warming and, at the same time, to increase animal performance and productive efficiency. The pasture management practices and feed supplementation, mainly using non-edible feed with less costs, could minimize environmental and social impacts, resulting in higher productivity with less inputs utilization. Tropical grass submitted to grazing management according to plant height present high soluble protein and low levels of indigestible neutral detergent fiber contents. Energy or rumen undegradable protein supplementation, associated to alternative additives to antibiotics effects, such as probiotics, tannin, essential oils and saponin, can help to fully exploit the animal genetic potential and nutrient utilization efficiency, which decreases greenhouse gases emissions and improves animal performance. Hence, more information about these tools can make the livestock systems in tropical pasture more efficient and eco-friendlier.

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“…This characterisation indicated that livestock management could be as variable as the geographical locations in which the animals are kept. However, apart from selected examples of specific regions in the tropics, the clear majority of dairy, beef, and dual-purpose cattle in the tropics are raised under extensive pasture-based conditions (Romanzini et al 2020). Another factor to be considered when classifying animal production systems in the tropics is the power to invest in the enterprise.…”

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Cattle welfare aspects of production systems in the tropics

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There is a growing demand for animal products, especially food for human consumption, including in developing countries in tropical regions of the world. Simultaneously, animal welfare and a reduced environmental impact are increasingly important to modern consumers and non-consumers. Increased efficiency of existing animal production systems is key to meeting the growing demand of animal products without ignoring societal concerns. Adequate animal welfare can play an important role in improving production and addressing consumer demands. This review describes the main cattle production systems in the tropics and considers how they meet the need for transparent animal welfare conditions. Several challenges to overcome are highlighted, including lack of information about the real cattle welfare status in the tropics. Adequate assessment protocols and improvements in animal nutrition, infrastructure, animal health and farming-related education need special attention in the region. Better animal welfare could improve tropical animal production in terms of productivity, and increase the volume of meat and milk delivered. It could also guarantee consumer acceptance and future consumption of animal products, secure incomes, alleviate poverty and reduce migration to urban areas and countryside abandonment.

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Economic evaluation from beef cattle production industry with intensification in Brazil’s tropical pastures

Cited by 13 publications

References 10 publications

Introducing the World’s First Global Producer Price Indices for Beef Cattle and Sheep

Introducing the World’s First Global Producer Price Indices for Beef Cattle and Sheep

Advances in Pasture Management and Animal Nutrition to Optimize Beef Cattle Production in Grazing Systems

Cattle welfare aspects of production systems in the tropics

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