Economic Issues Facing Animal Agriculture in the '80's

摘要

Discussions leading to development of future farm and food policy will commence soon. Several issues involving animal agriculture will be debated. Fifteen major issues involving the animal industries are discussed in this report. Concise statements of the current situation and probable developments are presented for each subsector. Current tropical issues are: pricing systems, vertical integration, costs of production and marketing, cash flow, regulation, and energy. Longer term issues revolve around consumer demand, land use, location of marketing firms, and the price-production cycle.