CLASS GENERATED LIST OF CHALLENGES TO THE ANIMAL INDUSTRY - 1999
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Government Regulations |
Hog Prices |
Proper Land Use |
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Margin - Price to farmer vs. food cost |
Livestock production and its neighbors |
Contract buying |
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Foreign Markets |
Animal Activists - Animal Welfare vs Animal Rights |
Overflow of grain production |
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Waste Management |
Premiums for better animals |
Genetics |
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Food Consumption Patterns |
Food Safety |
Quality Products |
CLASS GENERATED LIST OF CHALLENGES TO THE ANIMAL INDUSTRY - 1998
Who is going to use (eat) our products?
Who is going to produce our products?
Where will they do that?
Can I still have a job in this industry?
Mad Cow Disease and misinformation
Animal Waste Disposal - N runoff and Dead Animal Disposal Pollution
Livestock Zoning Ordinances
Cloning
Loss of farm ground
Lack of interest in Ag - Knowledge - Work Force
Animal Rights Activists - Public Image
Cruelty to Animals - Animal Welfare - Well Being
Size of operation - Corporate Farming
Animal Market - low prices
Animal Market - where will we sell our product?
Long-term effects of biotechnology - BST ----- "Image"
Overpopulation
Food Safety
Healthy?
CLASS GENERATED LIST OF CHALLENGES TO THE ANIMAL INDUSTRY - 1994
Animal Waste - Regulation
Animal Rights - Animal Welfare (PETA)
Changes in Marketing
Lean Meat vs. Fat
Corporate producers vs. Private producers
Labor management for efficient production to make dollars
Startup costs
Costs of controlling health problems
Feed cost - corn prices, market costs
Better genetics and its cost
Dollar profitability
I added:
Food Safety
"Organic"
Use of Technologies
e.g. Antibiotics
CLASS GENERATED LIST OF CHALLENGES TO THE ANIMAL INDUSTRY - 1996
Salmonella - Food Safety
Animal Rights Issues
Quality of breeding
EPA Restrictions
Lack of Feed Grain Storage for 1996 (Prices)
High Costs Low Returns
Prices
Corporate Farming
Public Perception - Attitude