ECONOMIC REPLACEMENT OF A HETEROGENEOUS HERD

Kathryn Boys, Ning Li, Paul Preckel (preckel@purdue.edu), Allan P. Schinckel and Kenneth Foster

No 19239, 2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: A model was developed and used to determine the optimal slaughter weights of pigs with heterogeneous growth raised in a 1,000 head barn and marketed in truckload groups. Explicitly recognizing the heterogeneity of pig weights and marketing the herd over time in truckload batches can substantially increase profit.

Keywords: Marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.19239

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