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DETERMINING FEED INTAKE AND FEED EFFICIENCY
DETERMINING feed INTAKE AND feed EFFICIENCY . OF INDIVIDUAL CATTLE FED IN GROUPS1. D. G. Fox, Tedeschi and P. J. Guiroy Animal Science Dept., Cornell University Introduction The beef industry in the United States is developing programs to minimize excess fat produced, increase consistency of product and to identify and reward individual owners for superior performance in the feedlot. In the , Strategic Alliances between cow-calf, feedlot and packer segments of the industry are being developed to accomplish this goal. Integrated production and marketing systems are being developed that can make Strategic Alliances work. Their objective is to market animals at their optimum economic endpoint, considering live and carcass incremental cost of gain and carcass prices for various grades, and avoiding discounts. To accomplish this, cattle are marketed as individuals when at their optimum carcass composition, which typically requires having cattle with different owners in the same pen.
1 DETERMINING FEED INTAKE AND FEED EFFICIENCY OF INDIVIDUAL CATTLE FED IN GROUPS1 D. G. Fox, L.O. Tedeschi and P. …
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