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Partial Budgeting For Dairy And Beef Farmers, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Farm Systems and Economics published reports

A Programmed text.

A PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION WORKBOOK.

This book is designed to show you how to draw up partial budgets.

If you are like most farmers you are probably searching for different ways of running your farm to increase farm income. Choices between alternatives are very difficult, and require a great deal of careful thought and planning, especially where large cash outlays are involved. But to decide how, where and what to produce with any confidence you need to consider all the physical and financial angles. Doing this in your head, or on the back of an envelope is hard, …

Ec73-1907 Internal Parasites Of Cattle, D. L. Ferguson

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 73-1907 is about internal parasites in cows and how they affect cattle production.

Internal parasites continue to be one of the major problems confronting cattle producers. In 1965, the United States Department of Agriculture estimated that internal parasites in cattle caused an average annual loss of $161,678,000. The internal parasites responsible for the annual loss are listed below.

Anaplasmosis. .$ 36,001,000

Coccidiosis . . . .14,569,000

Worm Parasites .100,046,000

Liver Flukes . . . 3,022,000

Trichomoniasis .. 8,040,000

In cattle the effects of internal parasites will be well camouflaged. However, additional feed will be required to reach market …

New Cattle Breeds : How Do We Use Them?, J L. Anderson

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Traditionally, beef production in Australia has been based on a few of the many breeds that developed in the United Kingdom. Pedigree breeding was used to maintain these breeds and was probably a sound policy, when combined with selection on performance, to maintain and concentrate merit in stud herds.

Emphasis on pure breeding has caused many prejudices against the practices of mixing and selection which were the original bases of breed formation.

Despite the adaptation of British breeds to the various environments in Australia there was, and still is, continuous interest in introducing other breeds of cattle to improve beef …

Processing Methods For Corn Grain Fed With Various Types, Sources And Levels Of Roughage To Cattle, Jerry Burkhardt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The research reported in this thesis involved experiments to determine the value of grain processed by various methods when fed various kinds and ratios of concentrate to roughage to feedlot beef animals of various ages and degree of fatness.