Economic value of mitigating Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae infections in pig fattening herds

Anna H. Stygar, Jarkko K. Niemi, Claudio Oliviero, Tapio Laurila and Mari Heinonen

Agricultural Systems, 2016, vol. 144, issue C, 113-121

Abstract: Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae infections (APP) can cause severe economic losses in pig production. Swine producers can prevent the disease from occurring and spreading. However, to be profitable for the producer, the anticipated benefits of a mitigation policy should exceed its cost.

Keywords: Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae; Pig; Dynamic programming; SIR model; Mitigation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X16300221
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:agisys:v:144:y:2016:i:c:p:113-121

DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2016.02.005

Access Statistics for this article

Agricultural Systems is currently edited by J.W. Hansen, P.K. Thornton and P.B.M. Berentsen

More articles in Agricultural Systems from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().