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An Economic Performance Analysis of the Beef Cow-herd Enterprise Using a Stochastic Frontier Function [PDF]

Standardized Performance Analysis (SPA) data from Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico were used to examine the economic performance of beef cow herd operations in the Southern Plains region by measuring their technical efficiency index.
Bevers, Stanley J., Cho, Jaesung, Park, Seong Cheol   +2 more
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How (In)Visibility Shapes Women's Experience of Inequity in Prison Work: A Cooperative Inquiry With Women Working in Australian Men's Prisons

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research shows that women working in men's prisons face both scrutiny and exclusion within a high‐risk, masculinized occupational culture. Addressing a gap in theorizing the processes involved, this article explores the interplay of gender, visibility, and power through a poststructuralist‐informed thematic analysis of data from 16 women ...
Claudia Walker, Sarah Riley, Christine Stephens, Alice Beban   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

USE OF VIRGINIAMYCIN AND SALINOMYCIN IN THE DIET OF BEEF CATTLE REARED UNDER GRAZING DURING THE RAINY SEASON: PERFORMANCE AND RUMINAL METABOLISM [PDF]

, 2019
Sérgio Fernandes Ferreira, Juliano José de Resende Fernandes, João Teodoro Pádua, Ubirajara Oliveira Bilego, Marcondes Dias de Freitas Neto, Rodrigo Gomes Furtado   +5 more
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Competition, Bargaining Power, and the Cattle Cycle [PDF]

Cattle production follows a dynamic cycle that has often been analyzed, and cattle markets receive much scrutiny because of the potential for buyer market power. The relationship between the two has been little studied, however.
Crespi, John M., Jones, Rodney D., Xia, Tian   +2 more
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Arthropod niche differentiation linked to grazing‐induced sward islets in intensively managed agricultural pasture

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
In a given number of samples, grassland sward islets contain more species of arthropods than the surrounding sward. When corrected for abundance, there is no difference in species richness, suggesting that the effect of islets might purely be to concentrate arthropods. The community structure differences indicated by non‐metric multidimensional scaling
Alvin J. Helden, Annette Anderson, Gordon Purvis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of prenatal nutrition on ruminal microbiome of beef cattle. [PDF]

Front Genet
Furlan É, Polizel GHG, Fernandes AC, Prati BCT, Pombo GDV, Ramírez-Zamudio GD, Fukumasu H, Santana MHA.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

DEMAND FOR BEEF FROM CATTLE ADMINISTERED GROWTH HORMONES OR FED GENETICALLY MODIFIED CORN: A COMPARISON OF CONSUMERS IN FRANCE, GERMANY, THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND THE UNITED STATES [PDF]

This study compares consumer valuations of beef steaks from cattle produced without growth hormones or genetically modified corn in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Fox, John A., Lusk, Jayson L., Roosen, Jutta   +2 more
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Unravelling Twin Births in German Holstein Cows: Phenotypic Associations, Genetic Analysis and Potential Underlying Genes and Hormones

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Twin births in dairy cattle are rare but present significant challenges for animal welfare, as both the health of the cow and the calves are affected. This causes economic losses, which prompts breeders to select against twin births and identify associated risk factors.
Laura Hüneke, Hatem Alkhoder, Dierck Segelke, Georg Thaller, Christin Schmidtmann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Welfare of beef cattle. [PDF]

EFSA J
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW), Nielsen SS, Alvarez J, Boklund A, Dippel S, Dorea F, Figuerola J, Herskin MS, Michel V, Miranda Chueca MA, Nannoni E, Nonno R, Riber AB, Stahl K, Stegeman JA, Thulke HH, Tuyttens F, Cozzi G, Knierim U, Martí S, Mullan S, Ashe S, Cecchinato G, Lima E, Mosbach-Schulz O, Vitali M, Zanna MB, Winckler C.   +27 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Drought Tip: Drought Strategies for Beef Cattle Culling [PDF]

, 2015
Josh Davy, Larry Forero, Glenn Nader, Jeffrey W Stackhouse   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source