Imaging of Systems Perspective in Beef Practice, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice

1st Edition, Volume 38-2 - June 17, 2022
Editors: Robin Falkner, Dale Grotelueschen, John Groves
Language: English
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In this issue, guest editors bring their considerable expertise to this important topic.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Forthcoming Issues
Preface
Fundamentals of Systems Thinking
Key points
Introduction
Origins of systems concepts
Origins of systems dynamics
System dynamics to systems thinking
Definition of systems thinking
Systems thinking methodology
Summary
Integration of systems thinking in ranch management (side bar)
Beef Production Health Systems: Perspectives of a Trained Systems Thinker
Key points
Introduction
Persistent morbidity in the beef supply chain
Unexpected disease outbreak in an integrated beef production system
The power of mental models
Conclusions: lessons from complex systems
Conflicts of interest
Systems Thinking Perspectives on Stewardship and Our Future
Key points
Stewardship
How systems stewardship impacts the use of land and livestock
How our worldview impacts stewardship
How stewardship impacts our relationships with people, livestock, and food
Summary
Systems Assessment of Beef Sustainability
Key points
Introduction
Definition of sustainability
Sustainability and systems
Indicators of sustainability
Concepts applied to agriculture
Summary
Using Mental Models to Improve Understanding of Cattle Diseases
Key points
Introduction
Bovine respiratory disease
Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis “bovine pinkeye”
Implications for a systems practitioner
Clinics care points
High-Risk Cattle Management and Stocker Calf Health: Modulation of the Bovine Respiratory Microbiome from a Systems Perspective
Key points
Introduction
Structure of the United States beef industry and role of the stocker segment
The microbiome and the respiratory tract: from development to disease
Summary
Clinics care points
Epidemiology’s Adoption of System Dynamics is a Natural Extension of Population Thinking
Key points
Introduction
Bovine respiratory disease as an example of thinking in systems
Systems thinking about bovine respiratory disease
Using causal loop diagrams to describe systems
Using stock and flow models to quantify parameters in a system
Stock and flow model of a bovine respiratory disease outbreak
Scenarios
Summary
The Sandhills Calving System—Putting Systems Thinking into Practice
Key points
Introduction
Changes within beef herds before the development of the Sandhills Calving System
Finding a point of leverage
Discussion
Disclosure
Wellness Management in Beef Feeder Cattle: Changing Mental Models to Support Beneficial Emergent System Behaviors
Key points
Introduction: sickness-biased paradigms/mental models
Terminology
Developing a wellness mental model
Current mental models
Insight from recent studies on sickness behaviors in feeder cattle
Managing admixtures of animal behavioral expression
Tools to proactively manage wellness
Welfare implications
Modeling wellness in a complex adaptive system
Part 1: linear mental/systems models
Part 2: linear-based system-of-system models
Part 3: causal modeling and identification of emergent systems behavior
Wellness causal loop modeling Causal loop modeling of wellness versus sickness
Literature support of utility of modeling animal health products as disease-sparing instead of wellness-promoting
A more complete systems wellness model
Experiences using systems modeling (causal loop diagram) for consulting in production systems
Example: managing failure
Expanding wellness mental model to a broader systems practice philosophy
Summary
Disclosure
How Forces of a Complex Adaptive System Affect Ability to Control Bovine Respiratory Disease in Feeder Cattle
Key points
Introduction
Summary
Current Reality of Beef Cattle Veterinary Practice in North America: A Systems Thinking Perspective
Key points
Introduction
Perspective on thinking in systems
Beef industry system background
Admiring the iceberg: identifying current realities, observations, and opportunities in beef cattle veterinary practice
Observations and opportunities from a systems thinking approach
Using causal loop diagrams to better understand
Summary
Disclosure

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Robin Falkner

Dale Grotelueschen

John Groves