榆林市某羊场舍饲陕北白绒山羊羔羊死亡原因研究

本文旨在研究榆林市某羊场舍饲陕北白绒山羊羔羊的死亡情况及死亡原因,为治疗和预防羊场疾病提供理论依据。本文主要采用实地考察和访谈方式,了解羊场的饲喂、管理、配种以及产羔情况,并对羊场的消毒防疫、发病症状、病理变化和羔羊死亡数量做了详细记录。经统计分析得出羔羊死亡主要原因:繁殖障碍,哺乳失常,管理不当,肺炎和痢疾等。其中肺炎占死亡总数的13.9%,痢疾占死亡总数的68.7%,繁殖障碍死亡占死亡总数的5.2%;哺乳不当弱胎饥饿占死亡总数的7.8%;管理不善及其他原因占死亡总数的3.5%。主要防治措施:以预防为主,治疗为辅,标本兼治,加强饲养管理,全群注射三联四防苗,使羔羊死亡情况得以控制。     

利用预测微生物学延长低温肉制品的货架期

文章在分析低温肉制品特点及腐败变质原因的基础上,介绍了防止低温肉制品腐败变质,延长货架期的措施。同时,文章强调多种措施综合应用,以让低温肉制品保鲜取得最佳效果。研究食品腐败过程中微生物变化规律及影响因素,对于建立有效的贮藏保鲜机制及研制与开发新型防腐保鲜剂具有重要的理论意叉和参考价值。微生物源防腐保鲜剂是天然防腐保鲜剂的重要成员,加快微生物学研究将为食品的防腐保鲜领域注入生机与活力。     

基于时间Petri网的生鲜肉冷链物流流程建模研究

以生鲜肉冷链物流为例,应用时间Petri网理论对冷链物流流程建模,研究冷链物流运作效率。用CPN tools对建立的模型运行后得到各环节的性能指标,发现流程中所存在的不足。最后提出对流程的改进建议。建模方法对复杂的冷链物流流程的建模和仿真有一定的参考价值,并为冷链物流以后的优化研究提供了新的思路。     

At‐home meat consumption in China: an empirical study*

The remarkable economic changes occurring within China since 1978 have resulted in a striking alteration in food consumption patterns, and one marked change is the increasing consumption of meat. Given China’s large population, a small percentage change in per capita meat consumption could lead to a dramatic impact on the production and trade of agricultural products. Such changes have major implications for policy makers and food marketers. This paper concentrates on meat consumption patterns in the home in China. A censored linear approximate almost ideal demand system model was employed in the study, and major economic parameters were estimated for different meat items. Data used in this study were collected from two separate consumer surveys – one urban and one rural in 2005.     

Consumer Valuation of Alternative Meat Origin Labels

Results from a split‐sample survey of the US population reveal consumers prefer meat products carrying origin information to unlabelled alternatives. Consumers are largely unaware of origin labelling laws and are indifferent to an important aspect of the implementation of current mandatory country of origin information rules in the US. In particular, consumers value meat products labelled ‘Product of North America’ approximately the same as ‘Product of United States’. Despite the similarity of these two labels, they have vastly different implications in terms of trade and segregation costs. Our results suggest that a transition from one label to the other is equally satisfying for the consumer while being less costly for processors and more acceptable to trade partners.     

Effects of an animal disease shock on meat markets and producer income

This paper simulates pig producer and slaughterhouse income losses due to a classical swine fever outbreak in Finland. The analysis explicitly takes into account that an outbreak of a highly contagious animal disease can shrink export demand for pig meat. After having observed the disease and its impact on pig meat price, producers can optimize animal stocks thought insemination decisions, which affects the number of animals in a dynamic manner. The income losses of pig industry were estimated to be less than €30 million. The losses were mainly due to price movements caused by an export demand shock. The results suggest that if the outbreak causes distortions in meat trade, the disease can cause substantial losses to the industry even if it has directly a small impact on the number of animals on farms. We also found that the optimization could reduce disease losses significantly, even more than 50%.     

Effects of consumer cohorts and age on meat expenditures in the United States

Meat demand is likely influenced by the birth cohort and age of the individual. In this study, we examine the demand for beef, pork, poultry, and other meat in the United States using the 1984–2012 Consumer Expenditure Survey and the almost ideal demand system with the incorporation of age, period, and cohort (APC) effects. We find that the model with APC effects performs better than the models without APC effects. The results indicate that cohorts born in earlier time periods are expected to purchase significantly less poultry compared to cohorts born in later time periods, when they are measured at the same age. Over the life cycle, purchase of poultry is expected to increase with age while the opposite is true for red meat. We also find that the own-price elasticity for beef is highest among the products examined, while the own-price elasticity for other meat is lowest and the inclusion of APC effects increases the absolute value of the own-price elasticities for beef, pork, and poultry, but reduces the own-price elasticity for other meat. Our forecasts indicate that the aggregate poultry purchase will continue to increase until 2022, while the aggregate purchase of red meat will slightly increase until 2017, but will either decrease or stay at same level from year 2017 to 2022.     

土豆红豆鱼香肠的研制

鱼香肠是以鱼肉为主要原料灌制的香肠。它营养丰富、味道鲜美、风味独特,深受广大消费者喜爱,尤其是老人和儿童。鱼香肠的优点是有外包衣(畜肠衣或塑肠衣)使鱼肉与外界隔绝,流通方便,卫生条件较好,加工后可长期保存。本文通过正交实验,探讨土豆和红豆添加量对鱼肉香肠感官质量的影响,逐步确定土豆和红豆的最优添加量,最终确定了新型鱼香肠最优配比为:以鱼肉质量计,土豆添加量:37%,红豆添加量:38%,畜肉添加量:15%,板油添加量:7.5%,淀粉添加量:5.6%,精盐添加量:2.25%,咖喱粉添加量:0.43%,胡椒粉添加量:0.06%,味精添加量:0.2%。     

Dynamic Cost Inefficiency of the European Union Meat Processing Firms

We apply dynamic data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate dynamic cost inefficiency for a sample of European Union (EU) large meat processing firms over the period 2005–2012 and decompose this into the contributions of technical and allocative inefficiency. The estimation of dynamic inefficiencies controls for adjustment costs associated with firms’ investments. We further contribute by measuring dynamic cost inefficiencies and their components with regard to own region group (managerial inefficiencies) and the gap between the pooled frontier and the region-specific frontier (programme inefficiencies). Results show that technical inefficiency tends to be the largest component of cost inefficiency when both conducting the analysis for the EU as a whole and estimating a region-specific frontier. Results suggest significant differences in cost, technical, and allocative inefficiencies between meat processing firms in eastern, western and southern EU countries. We also find that the gaps between the pooled and region-specific frontiers tend to be small to negligible, which suggests that the main source of pooled inefficiencies are shortcomings in managerial practices rather than differences in region-specific conditions.