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South Dakota Retained Ownership Demonstration, J. J. Wagner, T. B. Goehring, D. L. Boggs, L. W. Insley
South Dakota Retained Ownership Demonstration, J. J. Wagner, T. B. Goehring, D. L. Boggs, L. W. Insley
South Dakota Beef Report, 1992
Four hundred nineteen steer calves representing 57 cow-calf producers were consigned to a custom feedlot in mid-October. Cattle were fed in one of three pens. One pen of calves was fed a starter program for 20 days followed by a moderate roughage growing diet for 84 days before they were switched to a high energy finishing diet (TWO). The other two pens were fed a starter program for 20 days followed by a moderate roughage growing diet for 14 days before they were switched to a high energy finishing diet. Cattle were sorted into one of these two pens on …
An Update On Retained Ownership: Case Study Of Calves Born At The Antelope Range Livestock Station, D. M. Marshall
An Update On Retained Ownership: Case Study Of Calves Born At The Antelope Range Livestock Station, D. M. Marshall
South Dakota Beef Report, 1992
An update to a previous report on the case history of retained ownership in the Antelope Range Livestock Station herd is provided. Calves born in 1990 and 1991 were placed in a custom feedlot following weaning and the profitability of postweaning feedlot performance was estimated. Retaining ownership through slaughter, as opposed to selling calves at weaning, resulted in additional estimated profits of $51.27 and $107.82 per head (excluding interest on calf) for the 1990-born and 1991-born calf crops, respectively.