Article
Using the choice experiment method in the design of breeding goals in dairy sheep.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Feb 2015
Ragkos A, Abas Z
Abstract excerpt
Market failures are the main cause of poor acknowledgement of the true impact of functional sheep traits on the management and economic performance of farms, which results in their omission from the breeding goal or the estimation of non-representative economic weights in the breeding goal. Consequently, stated-preference non-market valuation techniques, which recently emerged to mitigate these problems, are...
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