James Kliebenstein

TL;DR: PRRS imposes a substantial financial burden on US swine producers and causes approximately dollar 560.32 million in losses each year, and current PRRS control strategies are not predictably successful; thus, PRRS-associated losses will continue into the future.

TL;DR: Animal-level economic impact of productivity losses and other costs attributed to PRRSV were estimated using an enterprise budgeting approach and extrapolated to the national level on the basis of the US breedingherd inventory, number of pigs marketed, and number of pork imported for growing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the economic impact of productivity losses and other costs attributed to PRRSV were estimated using an enterprise budgeting approach and extrapolated to the national level on the basis of the US breedingherd inventory, number of pigs marketed, and number of pig imported for growing.

TL;DR: This article found that people underestimate the relatively low probabilities of food-borne illness and their willingness to pay decreases as risk increases, suggesting that the perceived quality of new information can affect the weight the individuals place on the information, and pathogen-specific values seem to act as surrogates for general food safety preferences.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method, CVM-X, is proposed to calibrate hypothetical survey values using experimental auction markets, and the results show that calibration factors for those who favor the irradiation process (0.67-0.69) are less severe than for those with an initial dislike of the process.