The Costs of Biosecurity at the Farm Level: the Case of Finnish Broiler
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In the European Union, the animal health
and food safety strategy includes managing biosecurity
along the entire production chain. Farm-level
biosecurity provides the foundation for this. However,
the farm-level costs of preventive biosecurity have rarely
been assessed. Yet many risk management practices are
in place constantly regardless of whether there is a
disease outbreak or not. We contribute towards filling
this information gap by studying the costs incurred in
preventive biosecurity by the Finnish poultry farms. In a
preliminary analysis, we find that the cost of biosecurity
is some 3.55 cents per bird for broiler producers and
75.7 cents per bird for hatching egg producers. The
results indicate that work-time devoted to biosecurity
represents some 8% of total work time on broiler farms
and about 5% on breeder farms.