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Andrew Fearne - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the evolution of partnerships in the meat supply chain insights from the british Beef Industry
Supply Chain Management, 1998Co-Authors: Andrew FearneAbstract:This case study describes the evolution of supply chain partnerships in the British Beef Industry, driven by changing consumer demand, food safety legislation, a concentrated and highly competitive retail sector and the BSE crisis. The case examples demonstrate the importance of establishing trust in supply chain partnerships, breaking out of the spot trading environment which characterises commodity markets and focusing explicitly on value added initiatives as a source of differentiation and competitive advantage.
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The evolution of partnerships in the meat supply chain: insights from the British Beef Industry
Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 1998Co-Authors: Andrew FearneAbstract:The evolution of partnerships in the meat supply chain: insights from the British Beef Industry
Garry R. Griffith - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Distribution of Gains from Cattle Development in a Multi-Stage Production System: The Case of the Bali Beef Industry
2020Co-Authors: Xueyan Zhao, I Gusti Agung Ayu Ambarawati, Roley R. Piggott, Garry R. GriffithAbstract:Beef production in Bali is dominated by small-holders, like the majority of Indonesian agriculture. A number of different policies have been implemented to enhance development of this and other parts of the Bali Beef Industry. Knowledge about the returns from these options for the development of the cattle and Beef Industry, and their distribution among producers, consumers and others, would better inform policy decision making. This paper examines the benefits from cattle development in a multi stage production representation of the Bali Beef Industry using equilibrium displacement modelling (EDM). For a 1 per cent exogenous shift in the relevant market, improved productivity of Bali cattle production has the largest total benefits (Rp 3.02 billion, about A$ 0.6 million), over a time horizon of 2-3 years. Bali cattle producers receive a substantial share (35 to 71 per cent) of the total returns from any cost reduction or improved efficiency scenario.
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The Cost to the Bali Beef Industry of the October 2002 Terrorist Attack
Australasian Agribusiness Review, 2020Co-Authors: I Gusti Agung Ayu Ambarawati, Garry R. Griffith, Xueyan Zhao, Roley R. PiggottAbstract:The island of Bali is one of the main cattle producing areas for Indonesia. Bali is also known for its extensive tourist sector. Frozen and chilled Beef are imported to fulfil the tourist demand. This imported Beef, most of it from Australia, competes with the local Beef in the tourist sector. The terrorist attack in October 2002 caused the tourist Industry to collapse and this impact has been passed down to the demand for local and imported Beef. The objective of this paper is to use an economic model of the Bali Beef Industry to assess the impact of this attack on the Bali Beef sector. The results show that there is expected to be a significant welfare loss of Rp 5.43 billion (A$ 1.09 million) to the Bali Beef Industry over the medium term. Of this, Bali cattle producers are expected to lose Rp 2.57 billion (47 per cent). The quantity of Bali Beef demanded by the HRI markets is forecast to drop by about 5 per cent, while imported Beef demand is forecast to reduce by about 2 per cent.
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The US Cattle Cycle and its Influence on the Australian Beef Industry
Australasian Agribusiness Review, 2020Co-Authors: Garry R. Griffith, A. R. AlfordAbstract:Although there is some disagreement about the fi ne detail (see for example the report on Outlook 2002 in The Land, 7 March 2002, p.12), the signposts for the Australian Beef Industry appear to be pointing mainly in the “positive” direction in the short term. How long will this situation last and what can cattle producers, feedlot operators and meat processors do to protect themselves against the inevitable turnaround towards the “negative” direction? In this paper, one of the critical factors infl uencing the longer-term future of the Beef market, the United States (US) cattle cycle, is described and its impacts on Australia are evaluated.
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The Sustainable Beef Profit Partnership Approach to the Adoption of New Beef Industry Technologies
2020Co-Authors: Garry R. Griffith, R.e. Clark, Peter F. Parnell, Janice TimmsAbstract:Technology adoption in the Australian Beef Industry has been low and slow compared to the intensive livestock and cropping industries. The principles of accelerated adoption provide an innovative solution to this problem. In the Beef CRC, Sustainable Beef Profit Partnership (BPP) members will meet regularly to measure their current performance, set targets for future productivity increases, and use a profitability framework to assess the potential impact of new technology. Capacity building and partnership outcomes will also be assessed. The BPP teams will be supported with appropriate tools and resources. The information generated will be used to underpin the achievement of Beef CRC commercialisation outputs and profitability outcomes.
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The potential economic returns to the Australian Beef Industry from a new twinning technology
Agricultural Systems, 2003Co-Authors: Robert J. Farquharson, Garry R. GriffithAbstract:Abstract Technical procedures to increase the proportion of twin calves in Australian Beef herds are being developed for commercial release in the near future. The potential economic benefits to the Australian Beef Industry from such a technology are of interest to both the commercial development firms and the Beef Industry. The latter's interest has been whether to fund further research and development programmes to facilitate the uptake of the technology at the farm level. Farm-level budgeting and market simulation model approaches were used to assess the potential economic returns to Beef producers and the Australian Beef Industry from the twinning technology. If such a technology impacted on the Australian Beef Industry by increasing aggregate calving rate by 0·25% and reducing average weaning weight by 0·7% the net present value of Industry net benefits was estimated to be $62 million (in 1988 dollars). However, deferment of uptake of the technology reduced the potential benefits substantially.
Brian D. Neureuther - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Comparison of Information Technology in Supply Chains: U.S. Beef Industry and U.S. Food Industry
Innovations in Supply Chain Management for Information Systems, 2020Co-Authors: George N. Kenyon, Brian D. NeureutherAbstract:Historically, the growth of the Beef Industry has been hampered by the various entities (breeders, cowcalf producers, stockers, backgrounders, processors, etc..) within the Beef Industry’s supply chain. The primary obstacles to growth are the large number of participants in the upstream side of the supply chain and the lack of coordination between them. Over the last decade significant advances have been made in information and communication technologies. Many new companies have been founded to promote these technical advances. This research looks at both the upstream and downstream participants to determine the degree to which information technologies are currently being utilized and the degree to which these new technologies have driven performance improvements in the Beef Industry’s supply chain. We find through our survey that, by and large, the Beef Industry does not use information technologies to their benefit and that the US Beef supply chain is not yet strategically poised to enable the use of these technologies.
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A Comparison of Information Technology Usage across Supply Chains: A Comparison of the U.S. Beef Industry and the U.S. Food Industry
International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, 2010Co-Authors: George N. Kenyon, Brian D. NeureutherAbstract:Historically, the growth of the Beef Industry has been hampered by various entities, i.e., breeders, cow-calf producers, stockers, backgrounders, processors, etc..., within the Beef Industry’s supply chain. The primary obstacles to growth are the large numbers of participants in the upstream side of the supply chain and the lack of coordination between them. Over the last decade significant advances have been made in information and communication technologies, and many new companies have been founded to promote these technical advances. This research looks at both the upstream and downstream participants to determine the degree to which information technologies are currently being utilized and the degree that these new technologies have driven performance improvements in the Beef Industry’s supply chain. Through surveys, the authors find that the Beef Industry does not use information technologies to their benefit and that the US Beef supply chain is not yet strategically poised to enable the use of these technologies.
Michael A Boland - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a new value added strategy for the us Beef Industry the case of us premium Beef ltd
Supply Chain Management, 2000Co-Authors: Jeffrey P Katz, Michael A BolandAbstract:US Premium Beef Ltd is a cooperative partnership between all segments of the Beef Industry value chain, affording each segment an interest in the key stages of Beef production and processing, as well as an equal share of the financial risks and rewards. This “value‐added” strategy is accomplished through vertical integration and adding a quality‐based pricing structure to more closely link Beef producers and consumers. The case study is an example of supply chain management as a strategic response to a mature Industry. It also exemplifies how ownership structure of the firm, particularly the emergence of new‐generation cooperatives, is employed as a strategic factor in developing a new competitive approach in an Industry characterized by sales decline and aggressive competition from substitute products such as poultry and pork.
Scott Waldron - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Case study Beef Industry in China
2020Co-Authors: Colin G. Brown, Scott WaldronAbstract:"The Beef Industry provides a window on food safety issues in China's rapidly developing economy. This Industry provides particularly useful insights because the government has targeted it for development and because it is dominated by household slaughtering and wet markets, making food safety concerns pervasive. " from Text
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A Diachronic Analysis of the Beef Industry
The Political Economy of Agro-Food Markets in China, 2020Co-Authors: Colin G. Brown, Scott Waldron, John W. LongworthAbstract:Cattle have long held an important place in Chinese society and agriculture, especially as a source of draught power, which was the primary role of cattle in the central planning era. The transition in primary role from draught to Beef cattle and the growth in little over 30 years to among the largest Beef and cattle industries in the world has been remarkable. This has been accompanied by dramatic shifts in the structure of the Industry and the relationships between Industry actors. Thus the evolution of the Beef and cattle Industry provides fascinating insights into the political, sociological, and economic dynamics of agro-food markets in China that define the ‘architecture’ of these markets (Fligstein, 2001) and which are the focus of this book. Central to the architecture or structure of Beef and cattle markets in China are networks and relationships of Industry participants. These networks and relationships have undergone fundamental changes over the last 30 years. This chapter provides a diachronic analysis of the Beef Industry which highlights the nature of, and reasons for, the evolutionary changes in these networks and relationships.
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modernising traditional agriculture in china through the development of higher value agrifood chains the case of the Beef Industry
2008Co-Authors: Scott WaldronAbstract:China faces enormous challenges in generating sustained and inclusive agricultural and rural development. However the rapid growth occurring both inside and outside the agricultural sector provides new opportunities to meet the challenges. The development of higher value agrifood chains may provide opportunities for rural households to increase their levels of specialisation, scale and incomes, and for rural areas to broaden their employment and tax revenues bases. Facilitation of these developments effectively forms an agricultural modernisation strategy that is becoming increasingly described and prescribed by Chinese policy makers, researchers and development agencies. Despite the attention that has been given to this agricultural modernisation strategy, it has not proceeded without problems in China and has been subject to little rigorous scrutiny. This thesis uses a detailed Industry case study approach to examine the way that Chinese agriculture is modernising and, as an applied study, to identify areas where China’s agricultural modernisation strategy can be refined. China’s agricultural modernisation strategy is analysed through the window of a particular Chinese agricultural and rural Industry, namely the Beef Industry. The Beef Industry resembles many other agricultural and livestock industries that are commercialising, modernising and segmenting with important implications for food safety, the environment and rural incomes. In addition to providing insights into developments in the broader agricultural and livestock sectors, the Chinese Beef Industry is also worth examining in its own right because of its significant place in the world Beef Industry and in China’s livestock sector, and because it is used as a “pillar Industry” in the development of many poor areas. While the thesis focuses predominantly on the Beef Industry, differences and similarities with other livestock industries are noted throughout the analysis. The use of an Industry case study allows for a detailed analysis of a cross section of China’s markets, agribusiness and production sectors, and the integration of the sectors that form the Industry. One novel aspect of the thesis is that the Industry modernisation process is seen as a movement from low to high value agrifood chains in all of these sectors and for the Industry as a whole. The thesis examines the drivers of and constraints to the movement from low to high value agrifood chains, the sustainability of the development of the higher value agrifood chains, and the implications for Industry participants. The study draws on multiple forms of data, including extensive interview and fieldwork data over a ten year period across China, budget and scenario analyses; and macro-level data and policy documents. The cross-verification of this data allows for a rigorous, multi-disciplinary and “grounded” form of analysis that can complement other studies which draw on fewer sources of data. The thesis also provides a longitudinal and diachronic perspective of the agricultural modernisation process in contrast to a shorter term snapshot. The thesis examines the reasons and the measures by which China is attempting to move the agricultural sector beyond its primary reliance on traditional, low value agrifood chains. While the logic of these reasons and measures can be discerned, it is argued that China has attempted to “skip” development stages by over emphasising the development of large scale modern high value agrifood chains. The attempt to force the pace of modernisation has led to significant distortions and detrimental impacts. The thesis argues the need for China to refine its agricultural modernisation development strategy to be both more market conforming and to bring more benefits to Industry participants in rural areas. This is best done by taking a more incremental approach to agricultural modernisation with an increased emphasis on mid value agrifood chains and the development of market facilitating policies. The analysis, findings and recommendations of the thesis may be of interest to policy makers, development agencies and researchers working on China’s agricultural and livestock sectors.
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Update on developments in the Chinese cattle and Beef Industry of relevance to the Australian Industry: Final report
2007Co-Authors: Scott Waldron, Colin G. Brown, Cungen ZhangAbstract:In 1997 and 1998, MLA commissioned an investigation into agribusiness developments in what was then a relatively unknown and rapidly expanding Chinese cattle and Beef Industry. While this study provided MLA the wherewithal to develop appropriate strategies in China, significant developments have occurred over the intervening decade. The purpose of this research was to update policy,institutional and agribusiness developments in the Chinese cattle and Beef Industry based on an analysis of recent statistics, targeted fieldwork and interaction with Chinese Industry experts. The study found that there is now less emphasis on supply-side growth and more emphasis on efficiency, quality and food safety aspects of the Industry. While development levels of the Industry are still low, some specific areas and supply chains have leapt ahead of the rest of the Industry with implications for import replacement and export promotion. This is already reflected in recent trade flows. There are significant complementary interests between the Chinese and Australian industries. MLA has an important role to play in continuing to help both industries become more aware of and take advantage of these complementarities.
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Models of Agro-industrialisation in China: the Case of the Cattle and Beef Industry
1999Co-Authors: Scott WaldronAbstract:The term translated literally as ‘agro-industrialisation’ is used both frequently and loosely by Chinese officials and academics to refer to a range of targets including agricultural integration and commercialisation. Support for the agro-industrialisation process has shifted agricultural policy to the extent that it now heralds the third wave of reform of the Chinese rural economy since 1978. This paper draws on a literature review of Chinese material and on extensive fieldwork material to discuss: a) what is meant by agro-industrialisation; b) how agroindustrialisation measures are organised and implemented; c) how this reflects the characteristics of Chinese agricultural and political-economy systems, and; d) the role of and implications for various actors (government, enterprises, rural households and co-operatives in particular). Discussion places particular emphasis on the Chinese cattle and Beef Industry.
