Table 3.

Frequency and percentage of participants ranking each challenge as the most important challenge to their business (n = 117).

Challenge	Number of responses	% of responses
Input cost volatility	58	49.6
National disease outbreaks	20	17.1
Supply-demand market volatility	19	16.2
On-site disease problems	14	12.0
Labour/employment issues	4	3.4
Weather problems	2	1.7
Total	117	100