Towards Optimum Fat Lamb Mating Strategies on the Northern Tablelands

Murray A. Johns and Robert A. Pearse

Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics, 1970, vol. 38, issue 04, 21

Abstract: An attempt was made to quantify some of the variables which affect mating strategies on the Northern Tablelands in the high rainfall zone of New South Wales. A single year linear programming model was developed which permitted the determination of the optimum date of lambing of a Merino X Border Leicester ewe flock (composed of four tooth, six tooth, and full mouth ewes and mated to Dorset Horn rams) for a range of prices and seasonal conditions. It was found first, that generally a staggered lambing is most profitable; secondly, that it pays to lamb early for the Christmas-New Year market if premiums are adequate; and thirdly, that it pays to buy considerable quantities of oaten grain for winter feeding.

Keywords: Livestock; Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1970
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.9600

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