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European Review of Agricultural Economics 2008 35(4):547-562; doi:10.1093/erae/jbn042
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Producer incentives and plant investments for Salmonella control in pork supply chains

Gé B.C. Backus

Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI), The Hague, The Netherlands

Robert P. King

University of Minnesota, St Paul, USA

Corresponding author: Gé B.C. Backus, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, PO Box 29703, 2502 LS The Hague, The Netherlands. E-mail: ge.backus{at}wur.nl

Received November 2007; final version received September 2008

This paper presents a unified analysis of dynamic producer incentive systems for Salmonella control in primary production and slaughter plant investments in Salmonella control measures. We identify optimal incentive system parameters and cost-effective control strategies for achieving various levels of Salmonella prevalence. We compare the performance measures of the combined plant-level control and producer incentive system with results obtained under a producer incentive system only. The combined system allocates control effort among producers and the slaughter plant, resulting in 25–83 per cent lower expected total control cost for a wide range of threshold values.

Keywords: L14, Q13, Q18


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