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An Economic Analysis Of Management Alternatives For Utah Cattle Ranches And Potential Effects On Beef Production, David B. Hewlett
An Economic Analysis Of Management Alternatives For Utah Cattle Ranches And Potential Effects On Beef Production, David B. Hewlett
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The high feed grain prices of the last few years and the resulting high prices for heavy feeder cattle relative to lightweight feeder calves may provide economic incentives to market cattle from rangelands as yearlings. A majority of the economic studies investigating the profitability of retained ownership of beef calves to sell as yearlings have used a budgeting technique to compare a straight cow-yearling operation retaining all calves, to a straight cow-calf operation selling all calves. In this study linear programming was used to develop an optimum combination of various livestock marketing alternatives for maximizing net ranch income.
Two typical …