Animal Efficiency in an Intensive Beef Production System [PDF]
A stochastic input distance function is estimated to analyse the efficiency with which physical characteristics of individual lot-fed beef cattle in Australia are combined with conventional inputs to produce a final product possessing defined quality ...
Fleming, Euan M. +4 more
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Correction: Microbial communities and tight junction protein expression in the gastrointestinal tract of feedlot cattle. [PDF]
Sci RepYoung JD +9 more
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VALUE OF ULTRASOUND-BASED PREDICTIONS OF CARCASS QUALITY GRADE [PDF]
This paper addresses the quality and value of data derived from ultrasound technology. It attempts to determine whether or not ultrasound is a strong enough predictor of beef carcass quality grade to be an economical tool used to improve the current ...
Anderson, John D., Ferguson, Meagan
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Effect of diet mixing strategies on growth performance and carcass characteristics of feedlot cattle. [PDF]
Transl Anim SciWaldon NL +3 more
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THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF A FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE OUTBREAK: A REGIONAL ANALYSIS [PDF]
Contagious animal diseases like foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) are often referred to as economic diseases because of the magnitude of economic harm they can cause to producers and to local communities. This study demonstrates the local economic impact of a
Alward, Gregory S. +3 more
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Microbial communities and tight junction protein expression in the gastrointestinal tract of feedlot cattle. [PDF]
Sci RepYoung JD +9 more
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Sorting Cattle with Accumulated Data: What is the Accuracy and Economics [PDF]
Increasingly feedlots are managing cattle as individual animals rather than on a pen level basis. As such it is possible to predict an optimal marketing date for each animal.
Ibarburu, Maro A., Lawrence, John D.
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Scoping review of clinical signs, etiologies, pathology findings, risk factors, and treatments of acute interstitial pneumonia in North American feedlot cattle. [PDF]
J Vet Diagn InvestSchmidt PH +3 more
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Efficacy of tylosin phosphate for liver abscess control in feedlot cattle, by treatment duration: a Bayesian network meta-analysis supported by a randomized trial. [PDF]
J Vet Intern MedYoung JD +9 more
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The supplementation of lubabegron or ractopamine hydrochloride in the summer improved growth performance but did not impact rumination, mobility scores, and behaviors in feedlot cattle in the United States†. [PDF]
J Anim SciLoh HY +5 more
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