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Vertical coordination and health control measures in the French young bull sector: a transaction cost analysis

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The French young beef bulls sector presents very diverse vertical coordination patterns. This mixed system of vertical coordination has animal health issues. The more animals are mixed and subjected to long transports, the more likely they will be to develop bovine respiratory disease (BRD) at the beginning of the fattening period. Two major challenges exist, both based on economic and public health issues. We aimed to understand how and why the vertical coordination patterns in the young bulls sector are shaped this way and how these different vertical coordination patterns influence public health issues (BRD and antibiotic use). We collected informations through 54 qualitative semi-structured interviews and 6 field observations. Our analysis show that cow-calf producers and fatteners face different transaction costs, which explain the choice of low vertical coordination for cow-calf producers and more diverse forms of vertical integration, ranging from spot market to perfect vertical integration, for fatteners. We also show that the level of vertical organisation has a direct influence on BRD risks and antibiotic use at the beginning of the fattening period. The “health issues” parameter is involved in different categories of transaction costs (risk, uncertainty, quality). When vertical coordination is strong (weak), the risk of BRD is low (high). This article explains further ways to implement incentives to reduce systematic, preventive antibiotic use in this sector. From a technical point of view, to diminish the risk of BRD and at the same time, the systematic and preventive use of antibiotics; one should implement early vaccination (Figure 3), reduce animal mixing, and reduce the length of transfers. From an economic point of view, this improvement will be linked to fewer transaction costs and a more vertically coordinated governance. This tends to confirm the positive correlation between good information exchange and performance
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hal-02734131 , version 1 (02-06-2020)

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Axelle Poizat, Sabine Duvaleix-Treguer, Florence Beaugrand. Vertical coordination and health control measures in the French young bull sector: a transaction cost analysis. 2. International Society for Economics and Social Sciences of Animal Health (ISESSAH), May 2018, Montpellier, France. 102 p. ⟨hal-02734131⟩
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