Estimating within-herd preventive spillovers in livestock disease management

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1219-1225

  Gramig, Benjamin M ^a   Wolf, Christopher A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DISEASE CONTROL; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE;

EID: 37149012018     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2007.01087.x     Document Type: Article

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