Use of welfare outcome information in three types of dairy farm inspection reports

Autor: Yi-Chun Lin, Siobhan Mullan, David C. J. Main
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences, Vol 31, Iss 9, Pp 1525-1534 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1011-2367
1976-5517
DOI: 10.5713/ajas.17.0851
Popis: Objective The aim of this study was to examine the use of outcome-based observations within Assured Dairy Farm scheme (ADF), Soil Association Organic Standards (SA), and cross compliance (CC) farm assessment reports. Methods A total of 449 ADF reports, 37 SA reports and 26 CC reports were analyzed and their objective comments categorized as either resource-based or outcome-based. Results A mean of 61.0% of ADF questions were responded to with comments, in comparison to 25.0% of SA and, 21.0% of CC report questions. The SA and CC reports had significantly more outcome-based comments than the ADF (p
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