Day 1 before lunch (Søren Østergaard, AU)
Introduction to the course
PhD students introduce their PhD project plan and outline elements of economics of livestock health and welfare
Introduction to economics of livestock health and welfare
History of economics of animal health and welfare
Consumers and citizen willingness to pay (WTP) for animal health and welfare
Livestock production economics and basic theory of economics of controlling livestock diseases and welfare problems
Day 1 after lunch (Anne Braad Kudahl, AU)
Tools to draft a strategy for a livestock farm with focus on animal health and welfare, carbon footprint, biosecurity and workload
Preparation for farm visit on day 2
Day 2 before lunch (Søren Østergaard, AU)
Basic methods and tools applied in AHE
Gross margin analyses
Enterprise budgets
Partial budgeting
Marginal costs and benefits
Investment analysis
Cost-benefit analyses
Decision trees
Optimization approaches
Simulation techniques
Day 2 after lunch (Anne Braad Kudahl, AU)
Farm visit where we asses a dairy farmer’s decision-making in relation to livestock health, welfare and carbon footprint
Day 3 before lunch (Mogens Agerbo Krogh, AU)
From epidemiological studies to economic analyses
Implication of study design and statistical analyses when retrieving parameters for your economic analyses of animal health and welfare
Introduction of herd cases to be used for subsequent simulation modelling
Day 3 after lunch (Peter Thorup Thomsen, AU)
Example of aggregation of biological scientific evidence as input to economic analyses
Case: cow mortality, risk factors and prevention strategies
Day 4 before lunch (Jonathan Rushton, University of Liverpool)
The role of AHE in development of public regulation of the livestock production
Day 4 after lunch (Søren Østergaard, AU & Anne Braad Kudahl, AU)
Working with outline of students' individual report
Day 5 before lunch (Vivi Mørkøre Thorup, AU)
Using Big Data and Machine learning techniques to monitor the status of the animal and the herd
Assessment of value of information from precision livestock farming techniques
Exercises
Day 5 after lunch (Jehan Frans Ettema, SimHerd A/S)
Herd simulation modelling as a tool in economics of animal health and welfare
Presentation of the SimHerd dairy cattle herd simulation model
Using various types of herd data as input for analyzing alternative management strategies
SimHerd exercises
After this lecture you will be able to use SimHerd on your own in your projects.
Programme of a two-day follow-up course: Presentation and discussion of course assignments
