Optimizing Marketing Dates for Steers by Accounting for Individual Differences

Virden L. Harrison

No 307659, Agricultural Economic Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Steers differ greatly in their growth patterns, feed use, and carcass grading characteristics. Feedlot operations can increase their net returns by altering feed rations and slaughter dates according to individual steer differences. Experimental data giving biological relationships for two types of steers fed nine alternative rations were combined with a computer simulation to optimize slaughter dates and to estimate the effects of breed type, feed ration, pricing system, and price-cost ratios on profitability and length of feeding period.

Keywords: Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing; Production Economics; Research Methods/Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31
Date: 1977-06
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.307659

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