scholarly journals Adapting Seasonal Sheep Production to Year-Round Fresh Meat and Halal Market in Norway

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Bhatti ◽  
Thomas Williams ◽  
David Hopkins ◽  
Leif Asheim ◽  
Geir Steinheim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fresh Produce ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Fresh Meat ◽  
Sheep Population ◽  
Sheep Industry ◽  
Sheep Meat ◽  
Limited Supply ◽  
Sheep Production

Norway is the largest sheep meat producer among Nordic countries with more than 1.3 million lambs and sheep slaughtered in 2017. The sheep industry is limited by the need for in-house feeding during the winter months. In summer, Norwegian sheep are mainly kept on rangeland pastures, with sufficient feed for almost double the current sheep population. Lambs are slaughtered over a three- to four-month period from September to December with a peak in September–October, providing a surplus of lamb, much of which is subsequently frozen, followed by eight months during which fresh produce is in limited supply. Norwegian consumers eat an average of 5.4 kg of sheep meat per person per year, much of which is purchased as a frozen product. The Muslim (4.2% of the population) preference for year-round halal meat, with an increased demand on the eve of the Muslim meat festival (Eid al-Adha), has the potential to boost demand, particularly in Oslo. This paper provides an overview of the Norwegian sheep farming system, the current market value chains, and the potential to meet the demand for halal meat in Norway (specifically during the Muslim meat festival—Eid al-Adha) to the advantage of both consumers and sheep farmers.

Improving sheep production and welfare in extensive systems through precision sheep management

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (7) ◽  
pp. 665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica E. Morris ◽  
Greg M. Cronin ◽  
Russell D. Bush
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Sheep Industry ◽  
Monitoring Frequency ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Australian Sheep ◽  
Sheep Production ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Improve Production Efficiency

This overview discusses how precision sheep management could be utilised in the Australian sheep industry to improve production efficiency and reduce animal welfare concerns due to low monitoring frequency by stockpeople. The concept of precision sheep management is described. This is a system in which sheep are managed as individuals or small groups rather than as a (whole) flock. Precision sheep management utilises the application of radio frequency identification technology, enabling producers to better monitor sheep in extensive situations, and contribute to improved efficiency of management and sheep welfare. Examples of combining radio frequency identification with other technologies such as walk-over-weighing and Pedigree Matchmaker are discussed. These technologies provide producers with tools to improve the cost effectiveness of, and labour efficiency associated with, collecting data on individual animals. The combined technologies should also improve consistency and reliability of information, enhancing decision-making by producers, for example, from regular monitoring of biometric variables such as liveweight, or calculating breeding values to enable superior genetic comparisons over time.

The Australian sheep industry - undergoing transformation

2010 ◽  
Vol 50 (12) ◽  
pp. 991 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Rowe
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Genetic Selection ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Sheep Industry ◽  
Sheep Meat ◽  
Productivity Gain ◽  
Australian Sheep ◽  
Meat Market

Changes in the sheep industry over the last 20 years represent a trend that is unlikely to be reversed. The farm gate value of wool production has decreased from over $6 billion to ~$2.5 billion and the value of sheep meat has increased from $0.5 to $2.2 billion. Wool and meat are now on an equal footing in terms of the economic value of each sector of the industry. Future profitability of both wool and sheep meat production depends on achieving a high rate of productivity gain and improving quality attributes valued by consumers. Wool and sheep meat cannot compete on price or volume with synthetics and cotton in the textile market or with chicken and pork in the meat market. Differentiation based on quality and consistency needs to be measurable and clearly understood by consumers. The combination of genetic selection and good management can deliver improved productivity gain. Skills development and training will be essential for the industry to fully utilise available knowledge and new technologies.

A selection Index for hill sheep

1989 ◽  
Vol 1989 ◽  
pp. 18-18
Author(s):  
F.M.S. Al-Nakib ◽  
G. Simm
Keyword(s):  
Selection Index ◽  
Genetic Contribution ◽  
Sheep Industry ◽  
Selection Indices ◽  
Breeding Objectives ◽  
Sheep Production

Apart from the MLC indices for hill sheep (MLC, 1986) and Atkins’ (1984) study for Scottish Blackface sheep, little attention has been directed towards the general implementation of selection indices in hill sheep production, despite the fact that hill sheep constitute the backbone of the British sheep industry (eg. the genetic contribution of hill sheep to lamb carcass meat was estimated at 33 per cent, to total lambs slaughtered 36 per cent, and to dams of the lambs slaughtered 56 per cent - see MLC, 1988)The purpose of this paper is to try to define appropriate breeding objectives for hill sheep that could be incorporated in a selection index, in order to improve output and efficiency of sheep production in such a limiting environment.

Castile—La Mancha: A once traditional and integrated cereal—sheep farming system under change

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 188-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Caballero
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Behavior ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Sheep Industry ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
Grazing System ◽  
Farm Subsidies

AbstractFarming systems are often complex elaborations of the human societies to which they belong, with many traditional and social implications. Untangling the main social and structural constraints may improve productivity without an increase in environmental costs. Integration of cereal and sheep farming throughout the Mediterranean basin has been traditional. Mutually beneficial relationships between the sheep industry and cereal farming, and the vital role of forage legumes in meeting the modest needs of sheep for nitrogen, are stressed. This agropastoral system, however, is endangered in central Spain mainly because the pastoralist (sheep owner) is land-less, while the cultivator (land owner) has little interest in enforcing the law; fees for grazing rights are very low. Farmers, particularly young farmers, reject the current sheep operation because of the harsh working conditions. Restructuring of the grazing system would require a new policy scenario that would link European Union farm subsidies to structural reforms and would stress cooperative behavior.

A bio-economic approach to estimating economic values for UK hill sheep

2000 ◽  
Vol 2000 ◽  
pp. 39-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Conington ◽  
S. Bishop ◽  
A. Waterhouse ◽  
G. Simm
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Economic Values ◽  
Physical Constraints ◽  
Sheep Industry ◽  
Breeding Goal ◽  
Selection Indexes ◽  
Sheep Production ◽  
Combine Information ◽  
Economic Selection

Profitability of sheep production systems depends on several different animal characteristics rather than a single trait. Economic selection indexes combine information from more than one trait into an overall score, to maximise genetic gain. Economic values (EVs) are required for each trait in the breeding goal so that selection emphasis is proportional to the economic importance of each trait. Defining clear breeding goals is more complex for hill breeds than for other sectors of the sheep industry because they provide breeding females in addition to lambs for slaughter. The aims of this paper are to i) describe how EVs for breeding goal traits suitable for UK hill sheep were derived for a combination of carcass, maternal and ‘sustainability’ traits using a bio-economic model, and ii) show how these EVs vary between different production systems as a result of the differences in the physical constraints of farm size, pasture availability and the biological limits of sheep in extensive rearing environments.

Cluster analysis of farming systems according to predisposing factors of lameness in dairy sheep

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 97-97
Author(s):  
A Gelasakis ◽  
G Arsenos ◽  
G E Valergakis ◽  
P Fortomaris ◽  
G Banos
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Predisposing Factors ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Dairy Sheep ◽  
Welfare Problem ◽  
Sheep Production ◽  
Epidemiological Characteristics ◽  
Meat Sheep

Work on lameness has been focused on meat sheep but there is limited information on dairy sheep. Lameness is a welfare problem, which reduces productivity and it is a major problem in most sheep keeping countries (Winter, 2008). The latter is important for Greece which is ranked second (after Italy) in milk sheep production in Europe (deRancourt et al. 2006). The objective of this study was twofold. Firstly, to characterise the farming system in a representative sample of dairy sheep flocks, and to categorise them in certain clusters in relation to predisposing factors of lameness. Secondly, to assess the prevalence and the major epidemiological characteristics of lameness.

scholarly journals The evolution of sheep production in Rio Grande do Sul and Uruguay: a comparative analysis of structural change

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 1134-1139 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Garibaldi Almeida Viana ◽  
Paulo Dabdab Waquil
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Sheep Meat ◽  
Sheep Production ◽  
Negative Growth ◽  
Point Of Reference

This study intended to analyze comparatively the evolution and the structural changes in sheep production in Rio Grande do Sul and Uruguay, being the international wool crisis used as a reference point. The analysis method was based on an econometrics time series, and the analysis began with the estimation of models that used linear and semi logarithmic regression. The estimation of the models proved that there were structural changes in sheep production in these regions, and this estimation used the wool crisis as a point of reference. In Rio Grande do Sul after 1990, the variables of sheep stock, wool and sheep meat presented a negative variable in their posted annual growth rates, as they decreased by 5.9%, 5.6% and 5.6%, respectively. The negative growth rates in Uruguay for the same variables in the same period were 6.1%, 5.6% and 0.9%, respectively. The data models indicate that there was no return to a balanced situation after the changes caused by the crisis. Therefore, the sheep market was permanently affected, which dynamically determined the evolution of sheep production and was defined by changes and uncertainty.

scholarly journals The REVIEW ON CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF VEGETABLES VALUE CHIAN ANALYSIS IN ETHIOPIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haile Tamiru Tamiru Urgessa
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Value Chain Analysis ◽  
Total Size ◽  
Chain Analysis ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
System Sustainability ◽  
Decision Making Behavior

ABSTRACT In Ethiopia, vegetables are important for economic, nutrition, health. Smallholder and farming system sustainability and generate foreign direct investment. On the contrary, the level of consumption is very low for reasons of unavailability and market imperfection. Even with limited pocket areas of production, the product suffered low price and lack of market. As a result, glut and spoilage are common. Analyzing value chain of vegetables in Ethiopia with specific objectives of vegetable value chain analysis in Ethiopia. In this reviews determinant factors assessed waste transportation access to the farmers like road infrastructure, market efficient assess structure-conduct-performance of vegetable marketing and vegetable production and marketing, and to analyze crop and buyer choice decision-making behavior. The other determinants like distance from main road, frequency of extension contact, active labor power, total size of owned land and quantity produced, and volume of market supply were reviewed.  This all show how much farmers did not consider price offer but clearing off. To review the vegetable analysis value chains different parameters like; actors in  vegetable producers and consumers value chains, input suppliers support actors and value chain governance were assessed by this review.  

scholarly journals Productivity of Krivovir Strain and its Importance on Sheep Farming in Republic of Serbia

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 1427-1431
Author(s):  
Bogdan Cekic ◽  
Dragana Ruzic-Muslic ◽  
Nevena Maksimovic ◽  
Violeta Caro Petrovic ◽  
Ivan Cosic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Milk Production ◽  
Gene Pool ◽  
Milk Fat ◽  
Sheep Population ◽  
Sustainable Systems ◽  
Fertility Index ◽  
Indigenous Sheep ◽  
Strain Number ◽  
Sheep Production

The area of central Serbia is very suitable for sheep production, because of it’s hilly and mountainous configuration. Such area is rich in pastures for ruminants. In the territory of central Serbia, representative of autochthonous (indigenous) sheep breeds is pramenka (zackel) with its differentiated strains: Sjenica strain, Svrljig strain, Krivovir strain, Karakachan strain, Pirot strain, Lipa strain and Bardoka (White Metohian strain). Aim of this study was to investigate Krivovir strain: number of controlled heads and their part in total sheep population, their productivity parameters and milk parameters. In this study, total of 789 adult animals were observed. Average observed body weight (BW) of lambs were: BW on birth 3.22 kg, BW after 30 days 10.55 kg and BW on weaning 24.99 kg, while BW of adult sheep was 50.52 kg. Fertility index was 1.17 and average wool production was 2.88 kg. Average lactation after weaning lasted for 100 days, with milk production 65.16 kg, 3.91% protein and 6.72% milk fat. Krivovir strain is participating with 0.4% of total number of controlled sheep in central Serbia. Although in small number, this strain is irreplaceable in sustainable systems because they are evolutionary adapted to the conditions in which they are reared and because of their contribution to gene pool and agro-biodiversity.

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