Increased Welfare Leads to Increased Productivity
By Penny Lawlis, Swine Advisory Team, OMAFRA - According to Dr. Paul Hemsworth, a leading researcher from the Victoria Institute of Animal Science in Australia, the most limiting factor in animal productivity and welfare is the human factor. However, human-animal interaction at the farm level is also the easiest factor to change. In order to influence stockperson behaviour, stockpeople have to be exposed to information that will
produce changes in their beliefs about handling and interacting with animals.
30 September 2001
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