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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"grass-fed"”.
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Hispanic Consumers’ Preferences and Willingness-to-Pay for Grass-Fed Beef in Virginia
… preferences and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for grass-fed beef. Two hundred and thirty-one Hispanic consumers in four experiment sites in Virginia (Galax, Roanoke, Richmond, and Blacksburg) participated in an experimental economics laboratory procedure. Taste tests and visual evaluations were …
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Estimating Desirable Cattle Traits Using Latent Class and Mixed Logit Models: A Choice Modeling Application to the U.S. Grass-Fed Beef Industry
… data from a 2013 mail survey of 1,052 U.S. grass-fed beef producers were used. The findings indicate that grass-fed beef producers generally preferred lower-priced, heavy animals that were small-to-medium framed and easy to handle for grass-finishing. Black animals that were retained from …
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Three Essays on Consumer Behavior and Health Outcomes: An Economic Analysis of the Influence of Nutrition Information and Knowledge on Food Purchasing Behavior and the Impacts of Primary Care Givers Parenting on Childhood Obesity
… to pay (WTP) for nutritionally differentiated grass-fed beef. Our findings suggest that consumers' nutrition knowledge about the functions of Vitamin A, Vitamin E, CLA, and Omega 3 could positively affect their WTP for grass-fed beef while the knowledge about the main food sources of these …
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Committing to the Discomfort of Care and Curiosity: Investigations of Cows' Welfare, Lives, and Relationships
… this dissertation, I investigate cow welfare on grass-fed beef farms to, in part, question and examine the possibility of grass-fed beef farming in providing cows with more care than conventional beef farming. In connection with this, I analyze cow welfare to explore the agencies, subjectivities, …
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Essays on Price Analysis of Livestock Market
… three chapters. The first chapter titled ``U.S. Grass-fed Beef Price Premiums" examined monthly retail-level price premiums for grass-fed beef (relative to conventional grain-fed beef) in the U.S. from 2014 through 2021. We found that premiums were heterogeneous, with premium cuts (such as …
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Influence of dietary factors on the macro and micro-composition of bovine milk for use in protein ingredient powder manufacture
The increasing frequency of “grass-fed” labelling claims in dairy product marketing, predicated in part on improved product quality and nutritional benefits associated therewith, has necessitated both rigorous experimental data to determine the relative differences in the composition of milk from …
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Identifying preferences for specific beef flavor characteristics
… Holstein, American Wagyu), finishing diet (grass-fed, corn-fed, barley-fed), use of growth technologies (non-implanted, implanted, implanted & fed β agonists), and postmortem aging method (wet-aged, dry-aged). Panelists (N = 307) rated ground strip loin samples from each treatment for 13 …
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A proof of concept to differentiate among differences in flavor of American lamb using volatile flavor compound analysis
… animal age and production background (grain vs grass) helped to describe the experimental samples. Ratings for lamb flavor intensity were higher (P < 0.05) for lamb carcass samples than for yearling carcass samples, and lamb flavor intensity scores were similar for lamb and mature age classes. …
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Understanding Beef Quality Development and Different Feeding Regimes
… Additionally, because maintenance rations were fed, we found no difference in non-esterified fatty acid (NEFA) concentration, or O-linked- β-N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) protein abundance suggesting a longer or more aggressive feeding approach may be required to evoke such nutrient based …
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Validating the ability of REIMS to differentiate lamb flavor performance based on consumer preference
… characteristics. Production background (grain-fed or grass-fed) revealed the highest classification accuracies with the lean tissue and ground sensory patties were classified with 100% accuracy while external fat tissue was 99.50% accurate. Off-flavors were identified external fat tissue with …
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Market orientation in production agriculture: measurement, relationships, and implications
… in product differentiation strategies such as grass-fed beef, free-range chicken and organic soybeans. While the strategic landscape may have changed, many beef producers still focus their scarce managerial and capital resources solely on the improvement of production efficiency, often leading …
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Fetal programming in cattle: the effects of varying maternal protein intake in adolescent beef heifers on fetal and postnatal growth and development of the calf
… and during gestation is common in extensive grass-fed beef production systems. In the northern Australian rangelands, protein, rather than energy, is the major limiting nutrient for cattle in dry-season pastures with protein supplementation of breeding heifers an animal husbandry requirement. …