Pig farmers’ willingness to pay for management strategies to reduce aggression between pigs

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 14; no. 11; p. e0224924
• Main Authors: Peden, Rachel S. E., Akaichi, Faical, Camerlink, Irene, Boyle, Laura A., Turner, Simon P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 08.11.2019; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Aggression; Aggressive behavior; Agricultural economics; Agricultural practices; Agriculture; Analysis; Animal behavior; Animal experimentation; Animal Welfare; Animals; Biology and Life Sciences; Choice Behavior; Cost benefit analysis; Engineering and Technology; Farm management; Farmers; Farming; Farms; Growth rate; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Heterogeneity; Hogs; Installation costs; Lesions; Models, Theoretical; People and Places; Perceptions; Pork industry; Quality control; Reduction; Research and Analysis Methods; Retirement benefits; Skin; Skin diseases; Skin lesions; Social Sciences; Strategic planning (Business); Subgroups; Swine; Willingness to pay; United Kingdom; United Kingdom > UK; Scotland
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224924

When deciding whether to invest in an improvement to animal welfare, farmers must trade-off the relative costs and benefits. Despite the existence of effective solutions to many animal welfare issues, farmers' willingness to pay for them is largely unknown. This study modelled pig farmers'...