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Managing Liveweight Production from Beef Breeding
Michael McGowan 1, Geoffry Fordyce...
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Too often when the question is asked, ‘How is your beef breeding herd going?’ the answer is a performance measure such as the proportion of cows pregnant or calves weaned. However, profit is primarily a function of live weight production, its value, and the cost of production.
Therefore, the question should be ‘How many kilograms of live weight do you produce annually from this management group (herd) of breeding females per hectare?’ For example, if the farmer puts 100 tonne of cows ...
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Affiliation of the authors at the time of publication
1 The University of Queensland, Gatton, Qld 4343, Australia.
2 QAAFI, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia.
3 Dept Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Charters Towers, Qld 4820, Australia.
4 Dept of Primary Industry and Fisheries, Katherine, NT 0851, Australia.
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