Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]
IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aare12/124479.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Returns on investment in wild dog management-beef production in the South Australian Arid Lands

Author

Listed:
  • Wicks, Santhi
  • Allen, Benjamin
Abstract
Beef cattle producers in Australia have reported an increase in calf losses as a result of wild dog attacks in recent years. However, while control measures may reduce calf losses from wild dog attacks, they may also reduce attacks on kangaroos. Thus, wild dog control measures may inadvertently increase kangaroo competition with cattle for grazing vegetation, which is potentially costly for graziers. In this study the net returns to beef production from investments in wild dog controls in a case study area—omitting the social and environmental effect of wild dogs—is assessed. The case study area for this study includes the natural resource management district groups of Marla–Oodnadatta and Marree–Innamincka, in the South Australian Arid Lands. A bioeconomic livestock model is developed to estimate the benefits of South Australian wild dog control programs to reduce calf losses. A decision to control wild dogs will depend on the magnitude of the benefits of wild dog management relative to the costs of increased kangaroo competition for grazing vegetation. Results indicate that the decision to implement wild dog control—based solely on the net benefits from beef production—will vary with changes in the rate of increase in calf deaths, the extent of kangaroo competition for grazing vegetation and the net value of livestock.

Suggested Citation

  • Wicks, Santhi & Allen, Benjamin, 2012. "Returns on investment in wild dog management-beef production in the South Australian Arid Lands," 2012 Conference (56th), February 7-10, 2012, Fremantle, Australia 124479, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aare12:124479
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.124479
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/124479/files/2012AC%20Wicks%20CP.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.124479?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Griffith, Garry & I'Anson, Kym & Hill, Debbie & Lubett, ROland & Vere, David, 2001. "Previous Demand Elasticity Estimates For Australian Meat Products," Research Reports 280777, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Research Economists.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Griffith, Garry R. & Coddington, Anna & Murdoch, Scott, 2004. "Beef Feedlot Supply Response in Australia," Australasian Agribusiness Review, University of Melbourne, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, vol. 12.
    2. Gallet, Craig A., 2010. "The income elasticity of meat: a meta-analysis," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 54(4), pages 1-14.
    3. Motallebi, Marzieh & Pendell, Dustin L., 2013. "Estimating an Almost Ideal Demand System Model for Meats in Iran," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150188, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    4. Tighe, Kara & Piggott, Nicholas & Nicholas, Oscar & Mounter, Stuart & Villano, Renato, 2019. "Testing for pre-committed quantities of Australian meat demand," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 60(2), April.
    5. X. Zhao & J.D. Mullen & G.R. Griffith & R.R. Piggott & W.E. Griffiths, 2002. "The Economic Incidence of R&D and Promotion Investments in the Australian Beef Industry," Monash Econometrics and Business Statistics Working Papers 16/02, Monash University, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics.
    6. Mullen, John D., 2001. "An Economic Persective On Land Degradation Issues," Research Reports 27999, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Research Economists.
    7. Griffith, Garry & I'Anson, Kym & Hill, Debbie & Vere, David, 2001. "Previous Supply Elasticity Estimates For Australian Broadacre Agriculture," Research Reports 280778, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Research Economists.
    8. Tozer, Peter & Marsh, Thomas, 2012. "Domestic and trade impacts of foot-and-mouth disease on the Australian beef industry," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 56(3), pages 1-20.
    9. O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Griffith, Garry R. & Nightingale, John J. & Piggott, Roley R., 2004. "Testing for Market Power in Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Industries: The Australian Grains and Oilseeds Industries," Research Reports 28008, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Research Economists.
    10. Silvester, Luke T. & Vere, David T., 2005. "Economic Evaluations of Production Technologies in the Australian Sheep Industry," 2005 Conference (49th), February 9-11, 2005, Coff's Harbour, Australia 137948, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    11. Slattery, Henry & Griffith, Garry R. & Malcolm, Bill & Dunshea, Frank, 2010. "The benefits to the Australian Pig meat industry from an increase in demand for a hypothetical low cholesterol pork product," Australasian Agribusiness Review, University of Melbourne, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, vol. 18, pages 1-9.
    12. Mounter, Stuart W. & Griffith, Garry R. & Piggott, Roley R. & Fleming, Euan M. & Zhao, Xueyan, 2007. "Composition of the National Sheep Flock and Specification of Equilibrium Prices and Quantities for the Australian Sheep and Wool Industries, 2002-03 to 2004-05," Research Reports 37664, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Research Economists.
    13. Khairo, Salahadin A. & Hacker, Ronald B. & Atkinson, Trudie L. & Turnbull, Gemma L., 2011. "Economic Analysis of Feral Goats Control within the NSW Rangeland," Research Reports 280789, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Research Economists.
    14. Productivity Commission, 2008. "Safeguards Inquiry into the Import of Pigmeat," Inquiry Reports, Productivity Commission, Government of Australia, number 44.
    15. Liana Jacobi & Nhung Nghiem & Andrés Ramírez‐Hassan & Tony Blakely, 2021. "Food Price Elasticities for Policy Interventions: Estimates from a Virtual Supermarket Experiment in a Multistage Demand Analysis with (Expert) Prior Information," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 97(319), pages 457-490, December.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Livestock Production/Industries;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:aare12:124479. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaresea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.