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Beef & sheep, Ruminant

Calculating feedlot performance in a carcass-value economy

Posted on 15 Oct 20208 Oct 2020 by Dr Chris Reinhardt
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15
Oct

It has become increasingly apparent that conventional measures of live animal feedlot performance are inadequate to express the relative profitability of an animal or a pen of cattle. This is because most cattle today are valued on either a carcass weight basis or a net carcass value basis, and the proportion of carcass weight added,…

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Posted in Beef & sheep, Ruminant  |  Tagged ADG, carcass weight basis, carcass yield, carcass-adjusted weight, dressing percentage, Feedlot, feedlot performance, net carcass value basis Leave a comment
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