Grassland-based products: quality and authentication (2025)

Impact of market forces on product quality and grassland condition

2015

Meeting demands for livestock products which are predicted to more than double during the next 20 years, is central to the challenge of feeding the world sustainably. Smallholders will play a key role in achieving global security in animal protein. However, this requires a shift from subsistence to market-oriented farming where production efficiency not the number of livestock is the key focus with the aim of producing ‘more from less’. For grassland-based ruminant production, reducing stocking rate from current unsustainable levels under subsistence management is an essential first step to producing more production and profit from fewer animals. This is made possible in commercial farming by using a combination of new technology, decision-making skills and market development. For example, only after stocking rate is sustainably aligned with forage supply and herd structure is changed to comprise mainly breeding females’ can smallholders reliably use genetics and improved breeding p...

The economic value of grassland products

Applied Studies In Agribusiness And Commerce, 2007

The economic value of grassland products is not always clear. In addition to demonstrating the social benefits of grassland products, the objective of the present study is to present the value of their diverse forms of utilization and their definitions in practice. This study groups marketable and non-marketable grass products and introduces a new category, the animal husbandry value of grasses. Among other factors, economists differ from researchers in other areas of science, as they are basically motivated by three issues The first question economists always raise is: “What can it be used for?”, the second is: “What is it worth?”, and the third is: “How can it (its value) be determined?” Any answers to any further questions are subordinated to the answers to these three.

Alpine grasslands: relations among botanical and chemical variables affecting animal product quality

2016

Role of Pastures in Value Addition of Animal Products: A Review

IJLR, 2018

The emergence of many lifestyle diseases in humans has been related to the over-consumption of saturated fats generally through animal products. But the consumption of animal products by humans is as old as the human civilization itself. Yet the recent emergence of these diseases is baffling. So the shift of focus from "what we eat" to "what we eat, ate" occurs, thus bringing in froth the importance of animal feeding. Industrialization revolutionizes almost everything including the kind and type of feed offered to animals. Animals are most commonly offered factory made feed with grains as the main ingredient. These animals have evolved over millions of years for the feeding of grass, so feeding of grains although accelerated growth and production, inevitably brought some problems with them and one of them is absence of important nutrients which are thought to have protected our ancestors from the diseases which we are experiencing now. The most important of these diseases are cancer and those associated with cardiovascular system and brain. Grass-fed animals secrete some substances in their products having nutraceutical properties thereby making their products special and value-added. These substances are either present in grass or are produced by the animals from their precursors in the grass. They include CLA, ω-3 fatty acids, β-carotene (vitamin A), α-tocopherol (vitamin E) and antioxidant enzymes. However, a shift from the traditional established grain feeding system to the grass feeding system might not be easy in today's highly competitive era and require greater motivation from consumers and producers. The present review enlightens the importance of these substances in humans via their incorporation in animal products along with its feasibility under the present feeding systems.

Review: Quality and authentication of organic animal products in Europe

Animal, 2021

SURVEY OF EVALUATION TECHNIQUES FOR STUDYING RANGELAND GRASS SPECIES NUTRITIONAL VALUES

Journal of Plant Nutrition, 2011

Certification of agro-food quality products: a new reality in demand and farm management

European Association of …, 1997

One of new CAP priorities is to shift the increasing desertification and disintegration process that is nowdays underway in rural environment. At the same time there is a concern with environmental problems caused by the incentives of the old CAP to ...

Certifying Quality: Negotiating and integrating animal welfare into food assurance

Livestock preference and feeding value as key determinants for forage improvement – why not ask the consumers?

Animal Production Science, 2023

Differentiation of grass based products for higher market value

2016

How it is possible to provide a sound link between premium, grassland-based products and their quality in order to achieve/ensure a high market value for them?